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RomCom RAT attackers target groups supporting NATO membership of Ukraine

Security Affairs

The lure documents identified by BlackBerry impersonate Ukrainian World Congress, a legitimate non-profit, (“ Overview_of_UWCs_UkraineInNATO_campaign.docx “) appear as a letter declaring support to the Ukrainian government for the inclusion to the NATO alliance (“ Letter_NATO_Summit_Vilnius_2023_ENG(1).docx docx “).

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Facebook suspends Facial Recognition Program and deletes over 1bn face prints

CyberSecurity Insiders

The social media giant was found using the new tech to help tag people assisting blind and the visually impaired people in meeting their loved ones in near future. FB made a step forward by offering a settlement of $650 million to a data advocacy group that filed a legal suit against the use of FacioMetrics technology acquired by FB in 2016.

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Maciej Ceg?owski on Privacy in the Information Age

Schneier on Security

Congress has remained silent on the matter, with both parties content to watch Silicon Valley make up its own rules. If I'm subjected to facial recognition at the airport, or tagged on social media at a little league game, or my public library installs an always-on Alexa microphone, no one is violating my legal rights.

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U.S. Govt. Apps Bundled Russian Code With Ties to Mobile Malware Developer

Krebs on Security

Pushwoosh employees posing at a company laser tag event. In July, Congress introduced an amended version of the Intelligence Authorization Act for 2023, which included a new section focusing on data drawn from online ad auctions that could be used to geolocate individuals or gain other information about them. Edwards said the U.S.

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Operation Triangulation: The last (hardware) mystery

SecureList

Today, on December 27, 2023, we ( Boris Larin , Leonid Bezvershenko , and Georgy Kucherin ) delivered a presentation, titled, “Operation Triangulation: What You Get When Attack iPhones of Researchers”, at the 37th Chaos Communication Congress (37C3), held at Congress Center Hamburg.

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A Decade of Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

And that's precisely what this 185th blog post tagging HIBP is - the noteworthy things of the years past, including a few things I've never discussed publicly before. Congress How on earth did I end up here?! 6 years and a few days ago now, I found myself in a place I'd only ever seen before in the movies: Congress.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Surviving Stalkerware

ForAllSecure

The same with social media apps, I have to go through various settings to make sure that I'm not tagged without my permission, or in some cases even block a person now and again. Things like tagging, others, they seem like a great idea at the time but later, maybe not so. And it's not just Microsoft.