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The Future of Privacy: How Big Tech Is Changing the Way We Think About Our Data

Cytelligence

It heightens our awareness of extensive data collection about us, revealing potential uses and instigating concerns about potential misuse. Privacy policies from these tech giants, while intricate, are crucial in understanding the data collected and its uses. The impact of Big Tech on privacy is multifaceted.

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Kaiser Permanente Discloses Data Breach Impacting 13.4 Million People

SecureWorld News

Information collected by online trackers is often shared with an extensive network of marketers, advertisers, and data brokers. The plethora of online accounts most people have necessitates the use of a strong and unique password for each and every one.

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114 Million US Citizens and Companies Found Unprotected Online

Adam Levin

Shodan’s most popular search terms include “unprotected webcams” and “routers with default passwords.” Side note: always change the default password on your devices.). The data is thought to have originated from Data&Leads, Inc. which promptly took down their entire website as soon as the exposure was made public.

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Russia-linked Sandworm APT compromised 11 Ukrainian telecommunications providers

Security Affairs

The Sandworm group (aka BlackEnergy , UAC-0082 , Iron Viking , Voodoo Bear , and TeleBots ) has been active since 2000, it operates under the control of Unit 74455 of the Russian GRU’s Main Center for Special Technologies (GTsST). Poseidon is a Linux backdoor that supports a full range of remote computer control tools.

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Navigating the Digital Landscape: Insights from the 2024 Thales Digital Trust Index

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

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%).

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MY TAKE: ‘Network Detection and Response’ emerges as an Internet of Things security stopgap

The Last Watchdog

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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For months, JusTalk messages were accessible to everyone on the Internet

Malwarebytes

According to security researcher Anurag Sen , who discovered the open database, the messages were stored unencrypted, and the database itself was not locked behind a password. The open database is a logging database the company, Ningbo Jus Internet Technology , uses to keep track of app bugs and errors.