Security Boulevard

JANUARY 21, 2024

Then they switch to the best practices to prevent social media account takeovers, highlighting […] The post The World of Scambaiting, Preventing Social Media Account Takeovers, Network Wrenches Hacked appeared first on Shared Security Podcast.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 27, 2022

German Association for Data Protection is urging users to surf with logic when on internet. Users should also share no personal details on social media platforms, as it can spell trouble for them in the long run.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 24, 2022

–( BUSINESS WIRE )– Consolidated Communications (NASDAQ: CNSL) is educating parents to help their kids understand data privacy and stay safer while online. With kids spending more time online than ever before, the need to educate them on data privacy and usage is paramount. Kicking off Data Privacy Week, Jan.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Infamous cyber opsattributed to Russia-backed hackers fall into a pattern that’s worth noting: • C yber a ttack s on Estonia (2007) Websites of Estonian banks, media outlets and government bodies get knocked down in a dispute over a Soviet-era war memorial. • The wider context is all too easy to overlook. I’ll keep watch and keep reporting.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

JANUARY 24, 2022

Category News, Privacy Risk Level. As a Data Privacy Week Champion , and as part of our commitment to the link between cybersecurity and privacy, we wanted to share some best practices from the National Cybersecurity Alliance about how to protect your privacy online. Follow us - stay ahead. Read more of the ACT.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In the end, all the effective ones would destroy the free Internet as we know it. This would be an enormous change in how the Internet works in the United States. Unlike authoritarian states such as China, the US has a free, uncensored Internet. Today, data surveillance is the business model of the Internet.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Russia is one of the most advanced cyber states, but according to the media President Vladimir Putin ‘s personal PC is apparently still running Win XP. Open Media is an opposition-friendly, independent Russian news website. Microsoft Windows 10 is only allowed only for government systems that don’t manage secret information.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

What if consumers could use search engines, patronize social media, peruse news and entertainment sites and use other internet-enabled services without abdicating all of their rights? What if companies stopped treating consumers as wellsprings of behavioral data – data to be voraciously mined and then sold to the highest bidder?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2020

It sounds simple but this simple hack goes a long way in protecting your personal data. Disabling on-screen notifications for text messages and social media apps to keep prying eyes at bay. Needless to say that it brings forth more challenges for the government to protect the citizens’ personal data. Wrapping It Up.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Today’s generation of kids and teens consider their devices and the Internet as extensions of their lives. So without further ado, let’s dive into what we should be teaching our kids about Internet safety and what we can do to enforce these teachings. 7 Internet safety tips. Respect your privacy.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 10, 2024

But these moments of personal crisis have few, immediate solutions, as the current proposals to curb and stem online harassment zero in on the systemic—such as changes in data privacy laws to limit the personal information that can be weaponized online or calls for major social media platforms to better moderate hateful content and its spread.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The audio-chat app Clubhouse is the latest rage in the social media landscape. What makes it so popular and, now it’s part of the social media landscape, can we trust it? It is different from other social media in that it focuses on the spoken word. The Stanford Internet Observatory. The Clubhouse app.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Before the internet, putting someone under surveillance was expensive and time-consuming. Computers collect data about what we’re doing on them, and as both storage and processing have become cheaper, that data is increasingly saved and used. We could pass strong data-privacy rules. Spying is another matter.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 29, 2020

leaked internal customer support data to the Internet, mobile provider Sprint has addressed a mix-up in which posts to a private customer support community were exposed to the Web. A message Microsoft sent to customers affected by their recent leak of customer support data. Fresh on the heels of a disclosure that Microsoft Corp.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Social media has changed how we communicate, but it has also transformed the meaning of digital privacy. Because of social media, internet users today have more ways than ever to present themselves online. Earlier this.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 28, 2021

It’s Data Privacy Day—the perennial event that many internet users may have never heard of, but have strong feelings and opinions about the very things that birthed it in the first place. Check your browser’s privacy options. Your browser is your gateway to the Internet. Review your social privacy settings.

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IT Security Guru

MAY 7, 2024

Another way of gathering information is through public records, such as voter registration, birth certificates, marriage licenses, census data, and divorce records. The Internet is also a rich source of information. Data Sharing and Data Privacy Tools You should also limit what you share online.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 10, 2022

Elon Musk, the Chief of Tesla and Starlink Satellite Internet, offered a $44 billion deal to Twitter. Twitter denied having any fake accounts and assured Musk that they could provide raw data to his team for analysis, including millions of tweets generated on a daily note.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Businesses have a certain responsibility to disclose how consumer data is being used, and if they don't, they face hefty fines and hits to their reputation. In fact, many consumers find personal data sharing to be a particular point of contention. The answer lies in a consent management plan. What is consent management?

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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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Use a VPN to encrypt your data and always log out of your accounts when you’re finished using them, especially on public Wi-Fi. Check your social media accounts for active sessions and log out of any you don’t recognize. Once connected, they can monitor and capture users’ data or launch attacks on their devices.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 24, 2023

The Rise of the Sovereign Cloud sparsh Thu, 05/25/2023 - 04:04 One of the big ironies about data on the internet is that once the goal of achieving a centreless web of data communication (the internet itself) had been developed and built out, the next area of focus became how to draw borders around it.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 4, 2023

A study published in February prompted participants to co-write a statement about the benefits of social-media platforms for society with an AI chatbot configured to have varying views on the subject. This stands in stark contrast to the US, which has for years failed to enact federal data-privacy regulations.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Datacenter Proxies: this blog post examines the contours of each type and provides info on how to choose the perfect proxy option In the robust landscape of the digital era, our need for privacy, security, and accessibility on the internet has never been more acute. So, how do you choose between the knight and the maverick?

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

We’ve arrived at a critical juncture: to enable the full potential of the Internet of Everything, attack surface expansion must be slowed and ultimately reversed. Byron: To detect deep fakes, organizations can use digital watermarking, AI-driven detection tools, and media provenance tracking.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

And, as my guest will say later in this podcast, these virtual SOCs are like pen testing the internet. So from software, media, everything else of that nature. 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.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 16, 2021

Like its nearest US equivalent, Amazon, the company also runs cloud services, a payment service (Alipay), and is active in digital media. None of the customer data was sold and Alibaba’s users didn’t incur financial losses from the episode, the company said in a statement. In 2005 it started a close cooperation with Yahoo!

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

On the privacy front, California beefed up its consumer data privacy regulations even as Facebook and Apple publicly feuded over how each of these tech giants abuse of consumer privacy and loosey handle sensitive data. Chris Olson , CEO, The Media Trust. Casey Ellis, CTO, Bugcrowd.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

Still, over time, they’ve been woven into baseline data security regulations far and wide. NIST specs are echoed in the data loss disclosure and data privacy laws that have cropped up in many U.S. Add to that widespread warnings to use social media circumspectly. states, for instance. Cyber hygiene isn’t difficult.

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Hot for Security

JANUARY 31, 2021

For people predisposed toward spending too much time with devices (like all of us lately), achieving online privacy can be incredibly challenging. Protecting your privacy can take time and effort: research, editing settings, then monitoring news to avoid (or at least find out about) the latest vulnerabilities and data breaches.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2018

2018 was the year of the Internet of Things (IoT), massive attacks and various botnets hit smart devices, These are 5 IoT Security Predictions for 2019. We foresee regulations expanding beyond authentication and data privacy, and into more detailed requirements of network security and visibility into device bills of materials.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 24, 2023

Companies without tech-savvy executives are not only more likely to suffer a serious data breach, but they are also less likely to have the tools and resources needed to recover from a serious attack. The FBI reported over 800,000 complaints of suspected internet crime last year, with losses totaling well over $10.3

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The number of sensors and smart devices connected to the internet is exponentially rising, which are the 5 Major Vulnerabilities for IoT devices. Unfortunately, at that moment, there were over 300,000 of those cameras connected to the internet. Nowadays, malware is an indispensable part of the internet (even if we do not like it).

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Hours after the bill was signed into law in September 2018, the Department of Justice announced that it would file a lawsuit against the state for “ attempting to subvert the Federal Government’s deregulatory approach ” to the internet. California Consumer Privacy Act. it could encourage companies to charge customers for data privacy.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 5, 2022

Speaking with CNN’s “Reliable Sources” , Michael Beckerman, VP, Head of Public Policy, Americas at TikTok, refuted a large chunk of the FCC’s claims against the social media company, predicated on the notion that Carr is isn’t an expert on such issues and that FCC doesn’t have jurisdiction over national security.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 25, 2020

When it comes to cybersecurity and data privacy, 2020 is a year of convergence. COVID-19 pushed customers and employees toward a greater reliance on the internet, heightening cyberattack concerns — just look at the cybercrime facing online retailers. Five key takeaways about data privacy in 2020. And in the U.S.,

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Internet segmentation Amid growing geopolitical tensions, some web resources have blocked users from certain countries and regions. Whichever the reason, this leads to the segmentation of the internet, which damages the availability of information. There are two main reasons for that: political pressure and DDoS attacks.

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