SC Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

On the flip side, their employees had to grapple with the reality that their corporate devices could surveil their activities in their own homes. They have capitulated many of their customers’ surveillance-based demands to capitalize on the increased demand for device surveillance and management software.

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SecureList

MARCH 13, 2024

Stalkerware requires physical access to be installed, but our report also looks at a range of remote technology that can be used for nefarious purposes. Not only can the intruder violate their victim’s privacy by monitoring their activities, but they can also use the software to access huge volumes of personal data.

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Centraleyes

APRIL 18, 2024

Continuous Improvement: Evidence gathered during audits provides a basis for continuous improvement, allowing organizations to adapt cybersecurity practices to emerging threats and technologies. The audit includes reviewing risk analysis, data access controls, encryption procedures, and physical security controls.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 11, 2023

It’s spying when governments do it through opaque, mass surveillance regimes, it’s spying when companies do it through shadowy data broker networks that braid together disparate streams of information, and it’s spying when private individuals do it through unseen behavior on personal devices.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Our last edition of privacy predictions focused on a few important trends where business and government interests intersect, with regulators becoming more active in a wide array of privacy issues. This showed how consumer data collection can directly impact the relationships between citizens and governments.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 27, 2020

Communities across the United States are starting to ban facial recognition technologies. Forty major music festivals pledged not to use the technology, and activists are calling for a nationwide ban. Many Democratic presidential candidates support at least a partial ban on the technology. Let's take them in turn.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 5, 2022

Excessive data collection. Carr cited several incidents as evidence that TikTok has been dodgy about its data collection practices. ” Is TikTok a “sophisticated surveillance tool”? In the Twitter thread, Carr pointed out the national security risks TikTok poses. In China, it is known as Douyin.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

APRIL 9, 2020

Chantal Bernier, National Practice Leader, Privacy and Cybersecurity, and Trevor Neiman, Dentons Canada, adapting “Pandemics in a Connected World: Integrating Privacy with Public Health Surveillance,” by Chantal Bernier, Liane Fong and Timothy M. Banks, in the University of New Brunswick Law Journal , volume 66 at page 117.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

APRIL 9, 2020

Chantal Bernier, National Practice Leader, Privacy and Cybersecurity, and Trevor Neiman, Dentons Canada, adapting “Pandemics in a Connected World: Integrating Privacy with Public Health Surveillance,” by Chantal Bernier, Liane Fong and Timothy M. Banks, in the University of New Brunswick Law Journal , volume 66 at page 117.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2022

for “deceptive statements” the company and its founder allegedly made over how they handle facial recognition data collected on behalf of the Internal Revenue Service , which until recently required anyone seeking a new IRS account online to provide a live video selfie to ID.me. ” But several days after a Jan.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

As a leading VC, BVP offers budding companies plenty to consider, with a set of roadmaps and tools for today’s technologies and market complexities. Notable cybersecurity exits for the company include AVG Technologies, Cognitive Security, OpenDNS, and Carbon Black. Also read : Addressing Remote Desktop Attacks and Security.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The rise of destructive attacks In December of last year, shortly after we released our predictions for 2023, Russian government agencies were reported to have been targeted by a data wiper called CryWiper. The malware posed as ransomware, demanding money from the victims for “decrypting” their data.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Last year the app escaped a total ban in the US after rumors that it was sharing the data of US citizens with the Chinese government. Even information from draft videos that were never shared publicly were mined by TikTok for data, the lawyers for the users alleged. Biometric data. What was TikTok accused of?

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 29, 2024

For decades, governments and companies have surveilled the conversations, movements, and behavior of the public. That’s a lot of data that, until now, has been difficult to parse at scale. We kind of know what mass surveillance, mass spying looks like. And then the internet came along and made that a whole lot easier.

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