Malwarebytes

JANUARY 25, 2024

While we don’t know the threat actor’s true intentions, data collection and spying may be one of their motives. In this blog post, we share more information about the malicious ads and payloads we have been able to collect. Malicious ads Visitors to google.cn are redirected to google.com.hk

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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.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 12, 2022

In my opinion, this approach will help make your SIEM operation more effective and will help you avoid some still-not-dead misconceptions about this technology. Mostly data collection. Data collection sounds conceptually simple, but operationally it is still very difficult for many organizations. LEFT OF SIEM.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 27, 2022

Nisos provides the people, processes, and technologies necessary to deliver actionable intelligence as a managed service. Nisos curates target-specific keywords for tuning broad social media, open web, as well as deep and dark web collection tools. They fuse robust data collection with a deep understanding of the adversarial.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Monitoring and tracking potential threats from the dark web, open source, and social media platforms to detect threats that could attack your organization is critical to ensure public and corporate safety and security. Clients sign up for a monthly or annual service plan. Nisos is The Managed Intelligence Company.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

MARCH 1, 2024

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. It is part of most websites' technology stack; we have all been using it for a while now. The goal of 'cookie' technology is to improve your experience on the website.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

MARCH 1, 2024

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. It is part of most websites' technology stack; we have all been using it for a while now. The goal of 'cookie' technology is to improve your experience on the website.

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SC Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

The large amount and very personal types of data collected by the organization is an extremely valuable dataset for cybercriminals if they want to steal identities, said Erich Kron, security awareness advocate at KnowBe4. The post Fashion brand Guess hacked, DarkSide ransomware group the likely culprit appeared first on SC Media.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

Residential proxy services are often marketed to people seeking the ability to evade country-specific blocking by the major movie and media streaming providers. “Our technology ensures the maximum security from reverse engineering and antivirus detections,” ExEClean promised. in the British Virgin Islands.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Scammers create fake websites of known brands, fraudulent promotional campaigns, and fake accounts on social media. In recent years, an often-used fraud method has been fake mobile applications: 36% of users are unable to distinguish between genuine and fake apps, and 60% of the latter request access to the user’s personal data. .

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SC Magazine

JUNE 24, 2021

And as employee monitoring tools and technology proliferate, it’s important for businesses to recognize that “you… don’t have to be so draconian and invasive, that you are completely ruining anybody’s personal privacy.”. One potential solution, said Daly, is pseudoanonymizing the data collected from workers’ computers.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 12, 2021

billion in losses, according to data collected by the FBI’s The Internet Complaint Center (IC3). Criminals are reaching out to people through social media, emails, or phone calls pretending to be from the government. This represents a 69% increase from the previous year and a total of U.S.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 18, 2023

It is a special malware module designed to send commands to the infected system via removable media. The same module is also responsible for transporting data collected by the malware on the infected system, which is also done via USB. USB propagation module capable of bridging the air-gapped networks.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 8, 2021

This colorful chapter in the history of technology and society isn’t just breezing by unnoticed. The largest players in the tech industry need to demonstrate that they can self-regulate, or else lawmakers will take over a core asset of their business – consumer data – as demonstrated by California’s consumer privacy act.

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Herjavec Group

JANUARY 22, 2021

January 28 th is Data Privacy Day, an international effort to empower individuals and encourage businesses to respect privacy, safeguard data, and enable trust. Along with this, the pandemic has forced many businesses and individual’s daily tasks online, exacerbating these concerns.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

This development is unfolding largely off the radar screen of the website publishers who depend on this ecosystem, says Chris Olson, CEO of the Media Trust , a 15-year-old website security vendor, based in McLean, VA that is on the front lines of mitigating this seething threat. LW: That’s a huge bucket of technology.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 22, 2021

CAST also provides a breakdown of technologies discovered (the classic comparison is BuiltWith – a service that tells you what technologies are used by a given asset, company or app). The post SW Labs | Review: Bishop Fox CAST appeared first on SC Media. One interesting view is a breakdown of targets by hosting provider.

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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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SecureWorld News

JUNE 9, 2020

According to media reports, the non-successful adoption of the Trace Together app can be superceded by the next step that state-sanctioned technological advancements can offer: and this is it.". Y ou can't preserve privacy if you can't control the data," Herold says. Contact tracing, privacy, and cybersecurity problems podcast.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Since 2004, there's been an annual event designed to "Promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially amongst children and young people across the world." Today is the 20th Safer Internet Day. Exploits were rampant. There was clearly an increasing appetite for it.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 9, 2021

Still, for all of the cloud’s potential benefits, many organizations have accepted more risk than they may fully realize in part because even as their business and technology portfolios have evolved, their security practices have remained mired in the past. appeared first on SC Media. The post Vision and?Visibility:

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Herjavec Group

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

January 28 th is Data Privacy Day, an international effort to empower individuals and encourage businesses to respect privacy, safeguard data, and enable trust. Along with this, the pandemic has forced many businesses and individual’s daily tasks online, exacerbating these concerns.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

Since the pandemic started, people have been regularly bombarded with human interest stories in the media highlighting smug-looking business leaders all too proud to share how they’ve maintained employee productivity through creepy monitoring software. Jason Meller, founder , and CEO, Kolide.

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SC Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

While there are plenty of security and privacy training providers to select from, Rakoski emphasized the importance of companies customizing their awareness programs to their unique privacy challenges and requirements, lest they overlook an important regulation that applies to their specific industry needs or data collection practices.

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Herjavec Group

JANUARY 27, 2022

Data Privacy Week aims to create awareness about online privacy, educate citizens on how to manage and secure their personal information, and support businesses in respecting data and being more transparent about how they collect and use customer data.

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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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Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2021

With the addition of Kenna Security into our program we now have over 250 technology partners and over 400 integrations for our mutual customers to utilize. An integration with Cigent Technology is now available for Secure Endpoint customers to integrate with. Kenna has a healthy 3rd Party ecosystem of technology partners.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The main tool we use to obtain and analyze threat-related data is Kaspersky Security Network (KSN). KSN is dedicated to processing cybersecurity-related depersonalized data streams from Kaspersky products whose users consented to anonymized data collection. Do not forget to update your operating system and other software.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 14, 2024

TikTok is an immensely popular social media platform that allows users to create, share, and discover, short video clips. The RESTRICT Act was introduced in the United States Senate on March 7, 2023 and requires federal actions to identify and mitigate foreign threats to information and communications technology products and services (e.g.,

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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. Utilize anti-spam and anti-phishing technologies.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 30, 2021

SC Media spoke to Ananthanpillai about why the gig economy needs a more secure applicant vetting and hiring process, especially as we reach a major turning point in the fight against COVID-19. We have high-fidelity, facial recognition technology embedded into that. But the employer never collects any of the data involved, right?

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 10, 2023

Targeted attacks against individuals, whether for phishing or data collection or scams, were once only within the reach of nation-states. Combine the digital dossiers that data brokers have on all of us with LLMs, and you have a tool tailor-made for personalized scams.

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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.)

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 10, 2024

I’m proud of our success, but it wasn’t just our technology that got us here. From our safe portal, everyday people can view past password breaches, active social media profiles, potential leaks of government ID info, and more. Creating a social media account requires handing over your full name and birthdate.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 30, 2021

Earlier this month , popular Hollywood actor Tom Cruise was trending on social media not because of a new film that he’s working on, but thanks t o TikTok videos that went viral , generating many reactions from users around the ir authenticity. .

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

That’s a crazy long time for an independent media outlet these days, but then again I’m bound to keep doing this as long as they keep letting me. Tank, seen here performing as a DJ in Ukraine in an undated photo from social media. KrebsOnSecurity turns 13 years old today.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Worried about this lack of transparency, users and privacy watchdogs put pressure on technology companies. Certain tech giants recently started adding tools to their ecosystems that are meant to improve the data collection transparency. Sadly, these policies are seldom transparent enough. North America.

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