Hot for Security

MARCH 25, 2021

Advances in technology have dramatically influenced our online experiences throughout the digital age. We live in a data-centric society where user information is a profitable commodity, collected by any means possible. It’s not just the big tech giants who gather user data. Maintaining privacy online is far from easy.

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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 technology will quickly become critical national infrastructure, and security problems will become life-threatening. What's more, U.S.

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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. There is some validity to that strategy; Unfortunately the new technology often fails to deliver their stated benefits leading to higher customer churn.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 16, 2023

The EU is attempting to provide guardrails on a technology that is still not well understood but does present a lot of concerns from a legal perspective," said Jordan Fischer, cyber attorney and partner at Constangy, who recently moderated a panel discussion on "The Future of Privacy and Cyber: AI, Quantum and Mind Readers" at SecureWorld Chicago.

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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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SecureWorld News

APRIL 29, 2024

Information collected by online trackers is often shared with an extensive network of marketers, advertisers, and data brokers. It is believed that PII (personally identifiable information) was transmitted to third-party vendors via mobile applications and other website tools used by the healthcare giant.

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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.

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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. . ” BLACK MARKET VALUE. student and principal author of the study. student and principal author of the study.

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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? If you’re unfamiliar with how this technology typically operates, here’s a brief rundown: You enable Bluetooth on your phone. You may even experience digital billboard Geofence marketing.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 9, 2020

Data collected by IoT devices will increasingly get ingested into cloud-centric networks where it will get crunched by virtual servers. I had a fascinating discussion about this with Sri Sundaralingam, vice president of cloud and security solutions at ExtraHop , a Seattle-based supplier of NDR technologies. We spoke at RSA 2020.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

When faced with technologies that are increasingly critical for navigating modern life, users often lack a real set of alternatives and cannot reasonably forgo using these tools," said Lina M. A person must also believe that companies will give them the freedom to decide whether to give up their data and when, Levine said.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 2, 2023

The leaked records indicate the network’s chief technology officer in Pakistan has been hacked for the past year, and that the entire operation was created by the principals of a Tennessee-based telemarketing firm that has promoted USPS employment websites since 2016.

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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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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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McAfee

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Cloud Security Gateways (CSGs) are one of the hottest and most sought-after technologies in the market today, driven by the adoption of cloud services for business transformation and the acceptance of hybrid workforce policies.

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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. “Our technology ensures the maximum security from reverse engineering and antivirus detections,” ExEClean promised.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 31, 2022

Data controllers are accountable to the persons (consumers, citizens) or other organisations (customers) they serve as part of their purpose. Whilst Cloud service providers, as data processors, are responsible for actions they are contracted to deliver by controllers (data collection, modification, storage, transmission, deletion etc).

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Approachable Cyber Threats

AUGUST 2, 2021

A hacker or scammer could also use faceprint and voiceprint data in a plethora of ways to impersonate you, and to create very realistic deep fakes or digital personas - combined with the other information obtainable from TikTok and some rudimentary AI, create a not-so-easily discerned, fake digital version of any user.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Consumer Expectations Privacy Rights and Seamless Online Experiences An overwhelming 87% of consumers expect privacy rights from online interactions, with the most significant expectations being the right to be informed about data collection (55%) and the right to data erasure (53%). Download the report here.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Rapid7 combines threat intelligence , security research, data collection, and analytics in its comprehensive Insight platform, but how does its detection and response solution – InsightIDR – compare to other cybersecurity solutions? Rapid7’s market capitalization in 2021 is over $6.75

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Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Strategic Blind Spots Example: An organization adept at managing day-to-day operational risks may overlook broader strategic risks, like shifts in market dynamics or emerging technologies, potentially leaving it vulnerable to unforeseen disruptions. Automate data collection processes to reduce reliance on manual intervention.

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IT Security Guru

DECEMBER 23, 2020

With the consumer going online, retailers have had to pivot to a digital-led model, leveraging the data from increased online shopping to drive personalised experiences and relevant marketing offers. As a result, companies are grappling with the balancing act between data privacy, data monetisation and consumer trust.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Most of all, privacy-preserving technologies were among the most discussed tech topics, even if opinions on some of the implementations, e.g. NeuralHash or Federated Learning of Cohorts , were mixed. Governments are wary of the growing big tech power and data hoarding, which will lead to conflicts – and compromises.

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Most businesses need websites, and websites need to follow Google’s best practices to be found in online searches, terms Google can force because it currently has 92 percent worldwide market share on search. percent of the online advertising market ) and pay to show up in search results. What do I mean by Orwellian?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Digital technology and connected IoT devices have proliferated across industries and into our daily lives. Critical Success Factors to Widespread Deployment of IoT. Tue, 02/16/2021 - 16:33. Electric grid utilities are deploying smart meters to better correspond to consumers energy demands while lowering costs.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 24, 2021

“Right now, we all have a view into your personal life that we’ve really never had… before the pandemic,” said Jonathan Daly, chief marketing office at workforce security company Dtex, which sponsored the research and its corresponding report.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 22, 2021

Currently, however, the customers and priorities CAST is designed for differ from the rest of the ASM market. Target market: Fortune 500 companies with large, complex attack surfaces. The answer likely lies in the ability for this approach to scale down market, to smaller enterprises.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Section 40122: Energy Cybersense Program —The Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security and the heads of other relevant Federal agencies, shall establish an Energy Cyber Sense program to test the cybersecurity of products and technologies intended for use in the energy sector, including in the bulk-power system.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Security orchestration, automation and response, or SOAR, is a fledgling security technology stack that first entered the cybersecurity lexicon about six years ago. Living off the land’ LogicHub aims to be at the leading edge of this emerging market. “The LogicHub and other SOAR innovators are pushing the ball forward.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Paszek explained why some website operators are guilty of overlooking the sometimes unnecessary oversharing of web form data, which potentially creates privacy and regulatory risks: “It’s very tough for website managers to inspect code of third-parties on a consistent enough basis to understand what overreaches there may be,” he said.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 22, 2021

Data collected from logs offer useful information, including memory exceptions, backup errors, security flaws, and other bugs. . Teams should rely on the latest technologies and constantly log every activity in a workable format that can be easily accessed. . Make application logging a habit.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 5, 2019

Organizations will store their petabytes of “internal security telemetry” on Google cloud platform and use Google machine learning and data analytics technologies to analyze it and scan for malicious activities. Companies could use this data to quickly detect malicious activities.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 30, 2023

DCAP can be seen as an intelligent security instrument that provides off-the-shelf data protection technologies, implementing a new approach to solving an important and necessary task. DCAP systems are especially effective in preventing violations at the stage of establishing persistence, privilege escalation, and data collection.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2018

— had allegedly inserted hardware backdoors in technology sold to a number of American companies. Sager said he hadn’t heard anything about Supermicro specifically, but we chatted at length about the challenges of policing the technology supply chain. Below are some excerpts from our conversation. TS: Exactly.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 6, 2022

Fortinet notes that with the growing convergence of operational technology (OT) and IT at the network edge via remote access and IoT devices , “holding such systems and critical infrastructure for ransom will be lucrative but could also have dire consequences, including affecting the lives and safety of individuals.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 13, 2021

When a network is breached and the data is not protected in transit, it leaves not just the data plane vulnerable, but the control plane and the management plane, essentially handing over access to the entire system. Data Manipulation. Data security. Jennifer Dean | product marketing manager. Encryption.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

We’re talking about things like consumer data collection, data management platforms and retargeting enablement systems. LW: That’s a huge bucket of technology. The largest bucket is probably targeted advertising and marketing communications technologies. Olson: Take the fulfillment area.

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