Tag: Privacy
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Germany Rushes to Expand Biometric Surveillance
This would include especially sensitive material, such as pictures taken at political protests or other contexts directly connected to the …
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Comcast and Truist Bank customers impacted by debt collector’s breach
A data breach at Financial Business and Consumer Solutions (FBCS), a US debt collection agency, has led to the loss of data of some Comcast …
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Your robot vacuum cleaner might be spying on you
When Sean Kelly bought a top-of-the-line vacuum cleaner, he imagined he was making a sensible purchase. Not only would his Ecovacs Deebot …
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How modern IAM can mitigate risk
Is your company still using the same identity management system it had in 1998? Does a mere username and password log you into the local …
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Not Black Mirror: Meta’s smart glasses used to reveal someone’s identity just by looking at them
Like something out of Black Mirror, two students have demonstrated a way to use smart glasses and facial recognition technology to …
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Radiology provider exposed tens of thousands of patient files
An anonymous person has disclosed that they gained online access to a radiologist’s platform that hosted patient information using stolen …
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Smashing Security podcast #387: Breaches in your genes, and Kaspersky switcheroo raises a red flag
From family tree to jail cell? A hacker is alleged to have exploited information on genealogy websites to steal millions from public …
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Ireland fines Meta €91M over plaintext user passwords
In January 2019, Meta discovered that it had stored several hundred million account passwords in an unencrypted, or plaintext, format. The …
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Minimum healthcare cyber standards called by new legislation
Such a bill, which comes months after the widespread breach of Change Healthcare stemming from the absence of multi-factor authentication, …
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FTC Report Confirms: Commercial Surveillance is Out of Control
Data tracking and sharing happens behind the scenes, leaving users largely unaware of how much privacy they’re giving up on different …
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Watering Hole Attack on Kurdish Sites Distributing Malicious APKs and Spyware
As many as 25 websites linked to the Kurdish minority have been compromised as part of a watering hole attack designed to harvest sensitive …
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