Lawmakers in the US are once again demanding explanations for Facebook’s (now Meta’s) Cambridge Analytica debacle in which the personally identifiable information, including ages, interests, physical location, political affiliation, email addresses, and phone numbers of 70 million Americans were exfiltrated by the London-based electioneering firm.
Versus, a notorious English-language cybercrime darknet market, shut down after a hacker disclosed a high-severity Proof-of-Concept (PoC) exploit last week. The vulnerability could’ve been used to access the market’s database and expose its servers’ IP addresses.
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The Federal Trade Commission and the US Department of Justice have ordered Twitter to pay a $150 million penalty for using customer’s phone numbers to target them with ads without expressly stating those intentions.
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If you’re not entirely new to the world of Internet, then basic privacy and security concepts such as HTTPS, encryption and VPN shouldn’t be foreign to you.
An Indian airline says that an “attempted ransomware attack” against its IT infrastructure caused flights to be delayed or canceled, and left passengers stranded.
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Using weak passwords or reusing passwords on multiple accounts is a common practice that puts internet users at risk of account takeover, data compromise and identity theft. Analysis of consumer cyber-behaviors reveals the extent of security risks individuals willingly expose themselves to.
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With the advent of digital transformation and the pandemic-driven push to remote work, organizations have vastly increased their use of IoT devices. In 2021, the number of IoT devices increased 9% hitting 12.3B devices globally. This trend has been particularly pushed by organizations in the manufacturing and healthcare industries, who have been leveraging IoT devices as key technologies streamlining processes and efficiencies and offering new capabilities made possible by these devices.
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A new data extortion operation, where cybercriminals can post evidence of successful ransomware attacks and sell stolen data, has appeared on the darknet.
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Google is delivering internet users worldwide the latest version of its powerful Chrome web browser for desktop and mobile platforms, including a slew improvements and security fixes. Chrome users should update quickly, as the release fixes some pressing security flaws.
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How would you feel if you knew the vacation selfies you posted on Facebook and Instagram were scraped by a company and used without your permission in a “search engine for faces” sold to governments around the world? Not very happy, right?
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