Security Boulevard

APRIL 25, 2022

today launched a cloud-based platform through which it will unify risk and threat assessments using data collected from both its own and third-party security offerings. Trend Micro Inc.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 20, 2023

A new breach involving data from nine million AT&T customers is a fresh reminder that your mobile provider likely collects and shares a great deal of information about where you go and what you do with your mobile device — unless and until you affirmatively opt out of this data collection.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Human psychology and biases lead to exaggerated fears that politicians/marketers can exploit, resulting in wasteful and theatrical “security theater.” Where possible, favor openness and transparency over aggressive data collection or restrictions which erode civil liberties. Focus only on proportional responses.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Group-IB: The online market for counterfeit goods in Russia has reached $1,5 billion, while the number of phishing attacks has surpassed 1,200 daily. According to Group-IB, the online market for counterfeit goods in Russia has increased by 23% in a year and totaled more than $1.5 billion in 2017, compared to $1.2 billion in 2016.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 23, 2021

Vice has a good analysis : The news starkly demonstrates not only the inherent power of location data, but how the chance to wield that power has trickled down from corporations and intelligence agencies to essentially any sort of disgruntled, unscrupulous, or dangerous individual.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 19, 2022

Speculation centered around data harvesting, but that didn’t make sense because it was far too labor intensive for that and — sorry to break it to you — your data isn’t worth all that much.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 3, 2023

madhav Tue, 07/04/2023 - 05:10 As the data trust gap between customers and businesses continue to grow, and as third-party cookies become redundant, there is an urgency to adopt a modernized approach to customer data collection. Progressive profiling introduces a fresher and far more proactive take on data collection.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 20, 2023

A new breach involving data from nine million AT&T customers is a fresh reminder that your mobile provider likely collects and shares a great deal of information about where you go and what you do with your mobile device -- unless and until you affirmatively opt out of this data collection.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 25, 2021

Each individual has their own “profile” that helps marketing companies target them with tailored ads and content. It’s not just the big tech giants who gather user data. Online tracking starts whenever you connect to the internet, and your ISP is one of the first entities to collect web traffic once engaged in various activities.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 14, 2020

These insecurities are a result of market forces that prioritize costs over security and of governments, including the United States, that want to preserve the option of surveillance in 5G networks. The same happened with 4G; operators even ignored security features defined as mandatory in the standard because implementing them was expensive.

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Identity IQ

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Hermann’s deep expertise in identity theft protection, credit and financial education and leveraging data to implement scalable business solutions will immediately benefit Entryway as the organization works to create efficiencies through data collection to serve a greater number of at-risk individuals and families across all of its program markets.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2022

Data collections released after ransomware attacks. The rise in Initial Access Brokers (IAB) markets give criminal groups easy access to purchase stolen credentials for a small fee. Databases with critical IP and/or PII. Chatter about the best methods to attack your business.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 19, 2022

Many of the sites seemingly do not intend to conduct the data-logging but incorporate third-party marketing and analytics services that cause the behavior. They found that 1,844 websites gathered an EU user’s email address without their consent, and a staggering 2,950 logged a US user’s email in some form.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 13, 2022

Many of the startups attempting to tackle this vexing problem are offering the promise of data science and machine learning to automate the process of managing identities, although none of them even have the data collected to prove the accuracy and robustness of their proposed solutions.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

million or €50 million penalty in March 2020 by the France data watchdog for failing to provide transparent information to users about its rules and regulations pertaining to data collection related to its products and services. Google was awarded $56.6 Telecom Italia aka TIM was also hit by a GDPR fine of $31.5 million or €27.8

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

We provide recommendations for app market proprietors to address the issues discovered. We also find instances of developers releasing different app versions to different countries, some with weaker security settings or privacy disclosures that expose users to higher security and privacy risks.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 12, 2018

While many users allow location tracking on their mobile apps to enable tailored content such as weather or nearby restaurants, they are often unaware that their travel history and daily routines are closely monitored and sold for use in the $21 billion advertising market. . “[T]he Anonymization is not failsafe.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2023

If we compare markets and their rivalries before the incorporation of the internet, their progress was much slower and resources limited while big corporations have had much better circumstances for holding onto power and crushing the opposition. Residential proxies also create scalability opportunities for even faster data collection.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 16, 2021

And, as such, the disclosure of personal data was in breach of the Privacy Ordinance. Users had to accept the privacy statement in its entirety to use the app, and they were not specifically asked if they would consent to disclosure to third parties for marketing purposes. Shared data.

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Joseph Steinberg

APRIL 20, 2021

While the CDC recently instructed that vaccinators not use for commercial marketing purposes data collected as part of the COVID-19 vaccine process, there is little doubt that compliance with such instructions will be far from perfect both now and in the future.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 13, 2021

“Second-party” data is essentially the first-party data of another organization. Marketers frequently purchase or share first-party data from another partner organization. Data collection red flags. All of this leads us to “third-party” data. E-commerce impacted.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The stalkerware-type app involved, TheTruthSpy, has shown once again that the way in which it handles captured data shows no respect to its customers. The publications described the bug as “extremely easy to exploit, and grants unfettered remote access to all of the data collected from a victim’s Android device.”

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2022

In reality, this level of data collection is not as uncommon as is being suggested. The app collects how much data? You may even experience digital billboard Geofence marketing. However, the fallout from this incident may hopefully serve as a warning to others with an app soon to launch. The investigation findings.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

The data allegedly originated from big data sources of the two most popular mobile network operators in China. Another threat actor in February 2021 offered website and application crawler data collection services on a Chinese-language cybercrime marketplace.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

In today’s ultra-competitive MSSP market , business owners are looking for ways to make their offerings more attractive to customers and their SOCs more effective. When I was running product marketing for another vendor (who shall remain nameless), one of the most common questions was, “Do you support XYZ product?”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2023

The update will be effective as of July 27, and accepting the ToS users will give Zoom the right to utilize some aspects of customer data for training its AI models. Zoom can use customer information on product usage, telemetry and diagnostic data and similar content or data collected by the company to train its AI.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Attorney for the Western District of Texas unsealed an indictment last week that named Mark Sokolvsky as the core developer for the Raccoon Infostealer business, which was marketed on several Russian-language cybercrime forums beginning in 2019. The Justice Department has set up a website — raccoon.ic3.gov

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Krebs on Security

MAY 2, 2023

This page indicates that access to the consumer and payment data collected by US Job Services is currently granted to several other coders who work with Mr. Mirza in Pakistan, and to multiple executives, contractors and employees working for a call center in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

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Centraleyes

MARCH 25, 2024

Tight VRM Market The VRM market is bustling with vendors, each offering unique features and capabilities to address the complex challenges of vendor risk management. Centraleyes collects real-time threat intelligence from various sources, providing unparalleled visibility into potential vulnerabilities and gaps.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 15, 2022

Some policies do not cover losses incurred by a company indulging in illegitimate data collection of individuals or clients. Thus, companies involved in marketing should ask the policy offering firm to reinstate the policy terms with these points before an initial insurance quote is offered.

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Webroot

JUNE 25, 2021

He knows both the cyber threat landscape and the consumer internet security market, so he’s able to provide insightful advice for how tech-loving homeowners can keep personal networks powerful and protected.

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Threatpost

MARCH 20, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic is creating a lucrative market for facial recognition manufacturers. But privacy issues need to be top of mind, tech experts warn.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 14, 2019

Data collected in the course of the investigation also reveals some fascinating details that may help explain why these pump skimmers are so lucrative and ubiquitous. ” BLACK MARKET VALUE. The black market value, impact to consumers and banks, and liability associated with different types of card fraud.

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Threatpost

JANUARY 28, 2020

The Amazon-owned video doorbell uses third-party trackers to serve up rich data to marketers without meaningfully notifying users.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 8, 2022

From the trial signup page , you will be asked for your name, company name and email address: Don’t feel like sacrificing your work email address to the marketing gods? Once you are ready to install the collector role, first log into the InsightIDR portal : From the menu on the left side of the screen, click Data Collection.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

But new research shows the proxy service has a long history of purchasing installations via shady “pay-per-install” affiliate marketing schemes, some of which 911 operated on its own. Others are fairly opaque about their data collection and retention policies. in the British Virgin Islands.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 21, 2020

When you share too much information online, you become a target of highly effective marketing campaigns. Tracking is only harmless when there is no real data collected and stored; that’s impossible, isn’t it? While the practice is harmless from the outside, it is actually a series of serious privacy risks that must be mitigated.

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