The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

is now offering their cutting-edge cybersecurity services free of charge to all organizations for 30 days, irrespective of their current cybersecurity measures. Our mission is clear: to extend our protective reach to every organization in need, ensuring that the digital frontier is safe for all.”

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Jane Frankland

MARCH 27, 2024

I’ve been thinking about what it means to be human in our rapidly evolving digital landscape, and how interactions once filled with personal nuances are now frequently handled by algorithms and artificial intelligence. But this is just the surface of a much deeper issue that permeates our daily lives.

Technology 130

Technology Artificial Intelligence Authentication Scams 130

Schneier on Security

JULY 12, 2023

No surprise, but Google just changed its privacy policy to reflect broader uses of all the surveillance data it has captured over the years: Research and development : Google uses information to improve our services and to develop new products, features and technologies that benefit our users and the public.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 15, 2023

This is why we need regulation: Zoom updated its Terms of Service in March, spelling out that the company reserves the right to train AI on user data with no mention of a way to opt out. Zoom execs swear the company won’t actually train its AI on your video calls without permission, even though the Terms of Service still say it can.

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Technology Artificial Intelligence Surveillance 241

The Last Watchdog

MAY 17, 2023

In sum, this refers to the notion of correlating the mix of security tools and services a company has at hand much more directly with precisely defined business targets. “We The maturation of managed security services continues. LW provides consulting services to the vendors we cover.) It’s truly a joint effort.”

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Tech Republic Security

JANUARY 11, 2024

Check out our comprehensive list to find the top VPN services that prioritize anonymity and security. Looking for the best anonymous (no-log) VPN?

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 3, 2024

The Incognito splash page will explicitly state that Google collects data from third-party websites “regardless of which browsing or browser mode you use,” and stipulate that “third-party sites and apps that integrate our services may still share information with Google,” among other changes.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2024

Jackson County, Missouri, confirmed that a ransomware attack has disrupted several county services. A ransomware attack disrupted several services of the Jackson County, Missouri. “Jackson County has confirmed a ransomware attack was responsible for the disruption of several county services today.”

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Krebs on Security

MAY 6, 2024

Virtual private networking (VPN) companies market their services as a way to prevent anyone from snooping on your Internet usage. “When the traffic hits our gateway, we use traffic forwarding rules on the DHCP server to pass traffic through to a legitimate gateway while we snoop on it.”

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VPN Wireless Internet Internet 247

The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 1, 2023

After emerging from stealth mode less than a year ago, Nile has built a market-leading network-as-a-service (NaaS) solution designed to deliver a more secure wired and wireless service through the extensive use of monitoring, analytics, and automation.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 28, 2024

To sell us more goods and services, the algorithms of Google, Facebook and Amazon exhaustively parse our digital footprints. And in the long run, the capacity to analyze our online behaviors in a much more inspired, respectful way could serve a much greater good than just fostering impulsive consumer purchases.

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Data privacy Financial Services Healthcare Advertising 263

Schneier on Security

JANUARY 31, 2024

By separating which companies see what parts of our data, and in what contexts, we can gain control over data about ourselves (improving privacy) and harden cloud infrastructure against hacks (improving security). Since most of us can’t reasonably avoid getting a loan or using a credit card, we’re forced to share our data.

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Banking Financial Services Marketing Data privacy 245

Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2024

“We regret to report that certain online City services may be unavailable as we thoroughly review and assess an incident that affected some of our computer systems. As part of this assessment, we turned off our computer network.” ” reads the security breach notification.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2023

His point is that these companies have lost our trust: Trust is really important. A society where big companies tell blatant lies about how they are handling our data—­and get away with it without consequences­—is a very unhealthy society. If we want to protect our privacy, we need to understand what’s going on.

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Government Banking Risk Internet 260

Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2024

Financial services company LoanDepot disclosed a data breach that impacted roughly 16.6 LoanDepot is a financial services company that primarily operates as a mortgage lender. The company provides a range of mortgage and non-mortgage loan products and services. million individuals. million individuals. .

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 15, 2023

They will receive direct inputs from our environment, in all the forms I thought about in 2016. And they will increasingly control our environment, through IoT devices and beyond. Arguing with customer service—on chat—for service changes and refunds. But our new robots are different.

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Internet Internet IoT Banking 274

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Department of Justice (DOJ) today seized four-dozen domains that sold “booter” or “stresser” services — businesses that make it easy and cheap for even non-technical users to launch powerful Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks designed knock targets offline. The booter service OrphicSecurityTeam[.]com

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DDOS Computers and Electronics Internet Internet 298

Malwarebytes

APRIL 22, 2024

Four billions public Discord messages are for sale on an internet scraping service called Spy.pet. Discord told the Register it is probing Spy.pet to see if any action needs to be taken against the chat-harvesting service. “Discord is committed to protecting the privacy and data of our users.

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Cryptocurrency Internet Internet Accountability 127

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

The cyber attack that hit the managed service provider (MSP) CTS potentially impacted hundreds in the United Kingdom. CTS is a trusted provider of IT services to the legal sector in the UK. The company announced that it is investigating a cyber attack that caused a service outage. The incident impacted a portion of the services.

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Hacking Cyber Attacks Media Information Security 123

Cisco Security

APRIL 11, 2024

That’s why we’re thrilled to announce our recent recognition by Frost & Sul… Read more on Cisco Blogs We’re thrilled that our innovation in the security service edge space has earned us accolades. Learn how we beat out the competition.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2024

. “CISA is collaborating with private industry partners to respond to a recent compromise discovered by independent security researchers impacting Sisense, a company that provides data analytics services.” This matter has not resulted in an interruption to our business operations. ” reads the alert.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

According to a study conducted by Microsoft in collaboration with OpenAI, the two companies identified and disrupted operations conducted by five nation-state actors that abused their AI services to carry out their attacks. ” reads the report published by Microsoft. ” reads the report published by Microsoft.

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The Hacker News

MAY 3, 2024

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, the threat of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks looms more significant than ever. To address this urgent need, we are thrilled to announce our upcoming webinar, "Uncovering Contemporary

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DDOS Cyber threats 92

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Lyca Mobile is a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) that provides prepaid mobile phone services to customers in several countries worldwide. A mobile virtual network operator doesn’t own its own physical wireless network infrastructure but instead leases network services from established mobile carriers.

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Mobile Retail Cyber Attacks Marketing 119

Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2024

Threat actors breached the Dropbox Sign production environment and accessed customer email addresses and hashed passwords Cloud storage provider DropBox revealed that threat actors have breached the production infrastructure of the DropBox Sign eSignature service and gained access to customer information and authentication data.

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Hacking Authentication Passwords Accountability 107

The Hacker News

APRIL 16, 2024

The proliferation of cloud services and remote work arrangements has heightened the vulnerability of digital identities to exploitation, making it imperative for businesses to fortify their identity security measures. Our recent research report, The Identity Underground

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Last weekend, the British Library suffered a cyberattack that caused a major IT outage, impacting many of its services. The British Library is facing a major outage that impacts the website and many of its services following a cyber attack that took place on October 28. Visit [link] for more information about impacted services.

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Technology Cyber Attacks Hacking Cybersecurity 116

SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

OpenAI and Microsoft recently collaborated to identify and disrupt several nation-state actors who were attempting to use AI services for malicious cyber activities. According to Microsoft , the disrupted threat actors were affiliated with China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia.

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Phishing Social Engineering Accountability Mobile 96

IT Security Guru

MAY 7, 2024

As more of our personal data is collected online, privacy concerns have increased. Behind the scenes is an entire industry of data brokers that profits off of our digital footprints. In this post, we will look at how data brokers operate and some critical steps we can take to protect our personal information better.

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Data collection Data privacy Insurance Internet 71

Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2024

Greylock McKinnon Associates, a service provider for the Department of Justice, suffered a data breach that exposed data of 341650 people. “On May 30, 2023, we detected unusual activity on our internal network, and we promptly took steps to mitigate the incident. ” reads the data breach notification.

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Data breaches Identity Theft Insurance Hacking 119

Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2024

We regret to report that certain online City services may be unavailable as we thoroughly review and assess an incident that affected some of our computer systems. As part of this assessment, we turned off our computer network.” The City warned that some services may be temporarily unavailable while systems are offline.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2024

The attack is causing a temporary disruption to some of our computer systems and services. Due to the increased security measures placed in our systems, some functions may be slower than usual.” “We have significant resources devoted to this process and our work to resolve this issue is ongoing.”

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Ransomware Computers and Electronics Data breaches Hacking 115

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Kyivstar, the largest Ukraine service provider, was hit by a cyber attack that paralyzed its services. Kyivstar , the largest Ukraine service provider was down after a major cyber attack. This morning the company announced that it has suffered a cyber attack that temporarily blocked its services. ” reported Reuters.

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Cyber Attacks Mobile Telecommunications Internet 116

Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2024

“In our case, an employee received a series of calls, texts, and at least one voicemail featuring an audio deepfake from a threat actor impersonating our CEO via WhatsApp.” In October 2022, cybersecurity firm Resecurity identified a new spike of underground services enabling bad actors to generate deepfakes.

Social Engineering 120

Social Engineering Scams Password Management Technology 120

Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2024

The Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin (GHC-SCW) is a non-profit organization that provides health insurance and medical care services to its members in the Madison metropolitan area of Wisconsin. Group Health Cooperative also added that they have implemented enhanced security measures across all our systems and networks.

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Data breaches Ransomware Insurance Encryption 121

Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2024

A ransomware attack against the Finnish IT services provider Tietoevry disrupted the services of some Swedish government agencies and shops. Tietoevry is a Finnish multinational information technology (IT) and consulting company that provides managed services and cloud hosting for the enterprise.

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Ransomware VPN Government Retail 117

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Flagstar Bank announced a data breach suffered by a third-party service provider exposed the personal information of over 800,000 US customers. Flagstar Bank is warning 837,390 US customers that their personal information was exposed after threat actors breached the third-party service provider Fiserv. million customers of Flagstar.

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Data breaches Banking Hacking Mobile 121