The Last Watchdog

MAY 21, 2020

When it was first introduced, device fingerprinting – or online fingerprinting in general – was meant to create a safer, more responsible internet. The idea was that by fingerprinting devices used to connect to the internet we could achieve better accountability. However, online fingerprinting is also being used to track users.

Advertising 290

Advertising Internet Internet Accountability 290

CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

All these days we have seen many media speculations that Google collects some personalized data of its users for advertising and development purposes. On Wednesday, Google made an official announcement on the data collection it does and is as follows-.

Advertising 96

Advertising Data collection Internet Internet 96

Approachable Cyber Threats

MARCH 1, 2024

Your internet browser remembers and reflects what we like, but the question remains - how does the browser store those memories? To simplify what a cookie is in the context of technology, it’s a small text file sent to your internet browser by the website you visit for a better user experience. The answer is through “Cookies”.

Internet 59

Internet Internet Risk Advertising 59

Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Social media site Omegle is under fire after an investigation found boys using the platform to expose themselves on camera, and adults exposing themselves to minors. “People wanted to experience what the Internet was like when people were still afraid,” Taylor wrote. Read: Stranger Danger and the Sociable Child.

Media 109

Media Internet Internet Data collection 109

Approachable Cyber Threats

MARCH 1, 2024

Your internet browser remembers and reflects what we like, but the question remains - how does the browser store those memories? To simplify what a cookie is in the context of technology, it’s a small text file sent to your internet browser by the website you visit for a better user experience. The answer is through “Cookies”.

Internet 52

Internet Internet Risk Advertising 52

Identity IQ

JANUARY 24, 2024

Your digital footprint is the trail of data you leave behind when you use the internet and digital devices. It describes the sum of your online activities, from social media interactions to website visits and online transactions. Many websites and services allow you to opt out of their data collection procedures.

Identity Theft 52

Identity Theft Education Media Accountability 52

Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Arkansas – S 396: Social Media Safety Act Arkansas’s S 396, known as the Social Media Safety Act, mandates age verification for social media use to address the growing social media concerns. It also explores the implications for social media companies regarding responsibility and liability.

Data privacy 52

Data privacy Consumer Protection Media Data collection 52

Hot for Security

MARCH 17, 2021

However, once engaged on the platform, users may further expand their profile information by: linking to their social media networks adding a phone number setting game preferences participating in message boards and forums sending or receiving game invitation requests using the chat feature other user-generated content.

Data breaches 105

Data breaches Passwords Accountability Media 105

Identity IQ

JUNE 3, 2021

Every move you make on the internet can be seen by your internet service provider, or ISP. Discover why your ISP is tracking you, what they can see, and how you can get more privacy while browsing the internet. What Data Do ISPs Track? Once you connect to the internet, your ISP assigns an IP address to your connection.

VPN 86

VPN Internet Internet Encryption 86

The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Between social media, mobile apps, internet-connected devices and the rise of artificial intelligence vast amounts of personal data is being gathered constantly, putting individuals’ privacy at risk,” said Lisa Plaggemier, Executive Director at NCA.

Data privacy 100

Data privacy Education Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity 100

ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

And, as my guest will say later in this podcast, these virtual SOCs are like pen testing the internet. So from software, media, everything else of that nature. We can't just, you know, bust things up into small parts and say this is my world because again, internet is a pen test and we're all in this together.

Internet 40

Internet Internet Insurance Cyber Insurance 40

CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 27, 2022

Nisos curates target-specific keywords for tuning broad social media, open web, as well as deep and dark web collection tools. Their analysts actively remove PII from more than 165 internet databases and sources while documenting any data that cannot be removed for legal and policy reasons. their needs.

Risk 136

Risk Media Data collection Security Intelligence 136

SecureList

OCTOBER 18, 2023

As we were collecting and analyzing the relevant telemetry data, we realized the campaign had been launched in mid-August 2022 and targeted over a dozen corporations in Eastern Europe from the oil and gas sector and defense industry. It is a special malware module designed to send commands to the infected system via removable media.

Malware 98

Malware Phishing Internet Internet 98

CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 12, 2021

billion in losses, according to data collected by the FBI’s The Internet Complaint Center (IC3). The FBI compiles the statistics, recently published in its Internet Crime Report 2020 , from complaints filed through www.ic3.gov. This represents a 69% increase from the previous year and a total of U.S.

Cybercrime 52

Cybercrime Internet Internet Small Business 52

Malwarebytes

JUNE 16, 2021

Like its nearest US equivalent, Amazon, the company also runs cloud services, a payment service (Alipay), and is active in digital media. None of the customer data was sold and Alibaba’s users didn’t incur financial losses from the episode, the company said in a statement. In 2005 it started a close cooperation with Yahoo!

B2B 70

B2B Data privacy Media Retail 70

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The multinational media conglomerate Thomson Reuters left a database with sensitive customer and corporate data exposed online. Thomson Reuters, a multinational media conglomerate, left an open database with sensitive customer and corporate data, including third-party server passwords in plaintext format.

IoT 117

IoT Engineering Passwords Media 117

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Counterfeit goods are not the only threat to popular brands on the Internet. Scammers create fake websites of known brands, fraudulent promotional campaigns, and fake accounts on social media. Fraudsters use various ways to deceive users: phishing websites, fake mobile apps, accounts and groups on social media.

Marketing 79

Marketing Phishing Media Engineering 79

Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

This week, several media reported that agents of the Russian intelligence reportedly went to Ireland to inspect the undersea cables. Ireland is a strategic place for intercontinental communications because it represents the place where undersea cables which carry internet traffic connect to Europe. ” reported The Sunday Times.

Wireless 128

Wireless Surveillance Telecommunications Advertising 128

Malwarebytes

APRIL 12, 2022

According to WSJ , one dev claimed they were told it was “collecting data on behalf of internet service providers”. Stripping out GPS data from a photograph, or disabling geolocation on a social media portal. These supposed ISPs were complemented by financial service/energy companies.

Mobile 102

Mobile Financial Services Data collection Scams 102

SecureList

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Certain tech giants recently started adding tools to their ecosystems that are meant to improve the data collection transparency. DNT (disabled by default) is part of Kaspersky Internet Security, Kaspersky Total Security, and Kaspersky Security Cloud. However, not every service provides this kind of warnings.

Internet 91

Internet Internet Advertising Marketing 91

Approachable Cyber Threats

JANUARY 24, 2022

Delete unused apps on your internet-connected devices and keep others secure by performing updates. Get started with NCA’s Manage Your Privacy Settings page to check the settings of social media accounts, retail stores, apps and more. Protect your data Data privacy and cybersecurity go hand in hand. For Businesses.

Data privacy 52

Data privacy Education Accountability Media 52

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Experts from Honeywell analyzed data collected with the Secure Media Exchange (SMX) , a product it has launched in 2017 and that was designed to protect industrial facilities from USB-borne threats.

Malware 90

Malware IoT Advertising Data collection 90

The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Google, Facebook and Amazon have gotten filthy rich doing one thing extremely well: fixating on every move each one of us makes when we use our Internet-connected computing devices. We’re talking about things like consumer data collection, data management platforms and retargeting enablement systems.

Retail 138

Retail Digital transformation Advertising Software 138

Cytelligence

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

“Together, we will deliver complete proactive solutions from risk assessment, cyber risk policy underwriting to secure insurance coverage to protect critical assets, to cyber breach response, effective and efficient cyber incident remediation, meticulous data collection and data preservation.” Media Contact: AON: Matt Taylor.

Penetration Testing 45

Penetration Testing Insurance Data preservation Cyber Insurance 45

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 8, 2021

“The second reason for this healthy public debate is that thought leaders in technology are in the best position to implement tools for respecting consumer privacy, such as providing full disclosure about data collection and requiring consent for collection of sensitive personal data.

Data privacy 196

Data privacy Manufacturing Education Technology 196

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2023

How residential proxies using real IPs from diverse locations enable businesses to gather comprehensive and accurate data from the web Since the adoption of the first digital tools and connection to the internet, the competitive business environment has revolutionized and transformed the ways modern companies conduct business operations.

Marketing 90

Marketing Data collection Internet Internet 90

SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In a typical internet hoax manner, crypto scam sites offered visitors to get rich quick by paying a small fee. In reality, the scheme worked the way any other internet hoax would: the self-professed altruists went off the radar once they received the deposit.

Phishing 90

Phishing Scams Accountability Energy and Utilities 90

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 20, 2023

Period-tracking app users scrambled to find the most secure app online , and one period-tracking app maker promised to encrypt user data so that, even if law enforcement made a request for their data, the data would be unintelligible. Those promises, one investigation found, were shaky.) million.

Data privacy 70

Data privacy Engineering Encryption Internet 70

Fox IT

OCTOBER 11, 2021

If the organization does not respond or negotiate within the given timeframe, the actor threatens to (or immediately does) publish the stolen data and informs the victim’s customers and various media outlets. Collection & Exfiltration. Modus Operandi. Initial Access.

Ransomware 60

Ransomware Data breaches Software Data collection 60

Schneier on Security

APRIL 10, 2023

And new mechanisms, from ChatGPT plugins to LangChain , will enable composition of AI with thousands of API-based cloud services and open source tools, allowing LLMs to interact with the internet as humans do. Combine the digital dossiers that data brokers have on all of us with LLMs, and you have a tool tailor-made for personalized scams.

Phishing 289

Phishing Scams Surveillance Internet 289

Malwarebytes

MARCH 14, 2024

TikTok is an immensely popular social media platform that allows users to create, share, and discover, short video clips. Since 2020, several governments and organizations have banned, or considered banning, TikTok from their staff’s devices, but a complete ban of an internet app would be a first in the US. social media applications).

Identity Theft 102

Identity Theft Government Media Data collection 102

SecureList

MARCH 29, 2021

Doxing refers to the collection of confidential information about a person without their consent for the purpose of inflicting harm on that person or to otherwise gain some benefit from gathering or disclosing such information. Collecting information about a company from public sources.

Identity Theft 87

Identity Theft Phishing Accountability Banking 87

Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The report, titled “ Everyone’s afraid of the internet and no one’s sure what to do about it ,” reveals the dismal rates of adoption for antivirus software, two-factor authentication (2FA), password managers, and unique passwords across online accounts. ” (Emphasis added).

Surveillance 112

Surveillance Passwords Software Technology 112

SecureList

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The latter had a wide range of functions: it could steal cookies, saved passwords, autofill data for browser forms and cryptocurrency wallet data, collect system information, steal.txt files from the desktop and make screenshots. The scheme encourages users to log in using their social media credentials.

Mobile 96

Mobile Passwords Software Accountability 96

SecureList

AUGUST 10, 2023

The implant collects the following data on the host: Computer name User name IP address MAC address OS version Path to %System% To upload the data collected to C2, the implant sends a request using an embedded API token to create a directory with a name that is unique to the victim host.

Malware 76

Malware Encryption Media Data collection 76

Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

The Threat Report Portugal: H2 2022 compiles data collected on the malicious campaigns that occurred from July to December, H2, 2022. The Portuguese Abuse Open Feed 0xSI_f33d is an open-sharing database with the ability to collect indicators from multiple sources, developed and maintained by Segurança-Informática.

Threat Reports 81

Threat Reports Phishing Malware Banking 81

The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The personal data collected by the criminal botnets is the source of baseline intelligence that ideologues and propagandists continue to use to target and refine their disinformation campaigns, which they typically disperse by social media. I’ll keep watch. Acohido Pulitzer Prize-winning business journalist Byron V.

Ransomware 153

Ransomware Government Firewall Cyber Insurance 153