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5 Tips for Choosing the Best Proxy Service Provider

IT Security Guru

The swift expansion of the data collection sector has birthed an extensive market brimming with contenders all vying to deliver high quality proxy services. Free proxies are frequently saturated with users, resulting in slow connection speeds, subpar performance, or even causing you to lose internet access.

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MY TAKE: Why the next web-delivered ad you encounter could invisibly infect your smartphone

The Last Watchdog

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. The tech titans have swelled into multi-billion dollar behemoths by myopically focusing on delivering targeted online advertising, in support of online retailing.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Internet As A Pen Test

ForAllSecure

And, as my guest will say later in this podcast, these virtual SOCs are like pen testing the internet. 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. VAMOSI: That’s on the data collection side.

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Privacy predictions 2022

SecureList

We no longer rely on the Internet just for entertainment or chatting with friends. Governments in many countries push for easier identification of Internet users to fight cybercrime, as well as “traditional” crime coordinated online. Even when the pandemic is over, the work-from-home culture might persist.

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Jail for consultant who scraped colossal trove of Alibaba customer data

Malwarebytes

Alibaba’s consumer businesses annual active consumers on its China retail marketplaces reached 811 million for the twelve months that ended March 31, 2021, increasing from 779 million at the last quarter of 2020.

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Practical Practices for Data Privacy Week

Approachable Cyber Threats

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.

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Knock, Knock; Who’s There? – IoT Device Identification & Data Integrity Is No Joke

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The Internet of Things (IoT) is very crowded. billion devices will be connected to the Internet by 2020 2. They all must have unique identifiers and the ability to collect and transfer data over networks to enable monitoring, surveillance, and execution of decisions based on the collected data with little or no human intervention.

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