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US citizens lost more than $68M to SIM swap attacks in 2021, FBI warns

Security Affairs

The FBI reported that US citizens have lost more than $68 million to SIM swapping attacks in 2021, the number of complaints since 2018 and associated losses have increased almost fivefold. In 2021, IC3 received 1,611 SIM swapping complaints with adjusted losses of more than $68 million.”

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Sandboxing: Advanced Malware Analysis in 2021

eSecurity Planet

In 2021, sandboxes are now a fundamental part of an organization’s cybersecurity architecture. Also Read: Top Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) Solutions for 2021. Also Read: 2021’s Best Vulnerability Scanning Tools. Access control : Who has access to the sandbox environment? Sandbox Features. Pre-filtering.

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Jeff Moss on the Evolution of Hacking at SecTor 2021

ForAllSecure

Jeff Moss, ICANN CSO and founder of DEF CON/Black Hat, gave the keynote speech at SecTor 2021 in Toronto, Ontario. He talked about blue boxes which used different tones to access different areas of the telephone network for free. Not really to steal, but to gain access to faster computers.

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Spanish police dismantled SIM swapping gang who stole money from victims’ bank accounts

Security Affairs

Once obtained the SIM cards, they were able to bypass SMS-based 2FA used to access bank accounts and steal the money. With this, they deceived the employees of phone stores to obtain duplicate SIM cards and, in this way, have access to the bank’s security confirmation messages. Be aware of any changes in SMS-based connectivity.

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Rejecting cookies should be as easy as accepting cookies: new sanctions by the French authority (CNIL)

Data Protection Report

Specifically, Google was fined 150 million euros on 31 December 2021 and Facebook was fined 60 million euros on 30 December 2021 for not allowing users of their services to refuse cookies as easily as they were able to accept them. 1] CNIL’s Decision against Google, SAN-2021-023 dated 31 December 2021 (only in French). [2]

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Part 2: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about the evolution from RIM to Content Services?

ARMA International

ARMA (2017) describes RIM practices as the “knowledge and skills required to systematically manage information assets from creation or receipt through processing, distributing, sharing, using, accessing, organizing, storing and retrieving, and disposing of them. So, accessing the content is not easy. Repository Neutral Content.

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EU Council Agrees on Proposed ePrivacy Regulation

Data Matters

On February 10, 2021, the Council of the European Union (which includes representatives of the European Union (EU) member states, hereinafter Council) reached an agreement on the ePrivacy Regulation proposal that governs the protection of privacy and confidentiality of electronic communications services (ePrivacy Regulation).

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