Data Security
FTC: Americans lost $2.7 Billion Since 2021 to Social Media Scams
Americans lost a whopping $2.7 billion in scams that reached them via social media, and the actual figure could be much higher, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Of those who ...
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How to Protect Against Data Lake Hacking
Data lakes, or centralized repositories for large-scale data, are a popular solution for data storage, and there are good reasons for that. Data lakes are flexible and cost-effective, as they allow many ...
A Growing Cyberwar in the Widening Israeli-Hamas Conflict
The unprecedented assault by Hamas on Israel over the weekend brought with it cyberattacks by a number of known threat groups, echoing what was seen in the runup and aftermath of Russia’s ...
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Huge DNA PII Leak: 23andMe Must Share the Blame
Richi Jennings | | 23andMe, Compromised Credential, compromised credentials, compromised credentials monitoring, Credential Compromise, Credential Management and Enforcement for ICS/SCADA environments, credential replay attacks, credential reuse, credential stuffing, credential stuffing attack, Credential Stuffing Attacks, DEVOPS, DevSecOps, DNA, GDPR, iam, password reuse, pii, PII Leakage, SB Blogwatch
DNA: Do Not Agree. 23andMe says it’s not a breach—just credential stuffing. I’m not so sure ...
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Your Car is a Privacy Nightmare, Password Creation Best Practices, Sony Hacked Again
Tom Eston | | Automotive, Car Privacy, Car security, cars, clop, clop-ransomware, Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, Data breach, Data Broker, Data Brokers, Data Collection, Data Privacy, Digital Privacy, Episodes, Information Security, Infosec, Mozilla, Password, password complexity, Password Creation, passwords, Podcast, Podcasts, Privacy, Ransomware, research, security, Sony, surveillance, technology, Weekly Edition
In this episode, we discuss the Mozilla Foundation’s alarming report that reveals why cars are the top privacy concern. Modern vehicles, equipped with data-collecting tech, pose significant risks to consumers’ privacy, with ...
Google, Yahoo to Put Tighter Spam Restrictions on Bulk Senders
Email giants Google and Yahoo are putting tighter requirements on bulk email senders in hopes of reducing the massive amounts of spam that hammer inboxes every day and deflecting the phishing and ...
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ProtectAI Adds Three Tools to Secure AI Models
Protect AI this week has added three open source tools to detect threats to artificial intelligence (AI) models ...
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iPhone/iPad Warning: Update Now to Avoid Zero-Day Pain
Richi Jennings | | Apple, Apple iPhone, Apple zero-day, CVE-2023-42824, CVE-2023-5217, iOS 7, iPadOS Vulnerability, iPhone, iPhone and iPad, iphone update, SB Blogwatch, Zero Day Attacks, zero-day vulnerabilities, Zero-day Vulnerability, zero-days
Apple’s embarrassing regression: iOS 17.0.3 fixes yet more nasty zero-days (and the overheating bug) ...
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CISA and NSA Offer MFA and SSO Guidelines for Developers, Vendors
Developers and tech vendors need to improve multifactor authentication (MFA) and single sign-on (SSO) tools and make them easier for organizations to use to reduce the threat of phishing, password spraying, and ...
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Qakbot Hackers Delivering Ransomware Despite FBI Takedown
The raid two months ago that shut down the infrastructure of the notorious Qakbot malware group doesn’t seem to have been the kill shot that the FBI and other law enforcement agencies ...
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