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Why Your Wi-Fi Router Doubles as an Apple AirTag

Krebs on Security

Apple and the satellite-based broadband service Starlink each recently took steps to address new research into the potential security and privacy implications of how their services geo-locate devices. In essence, Google’s WPS computes the user’s location and shares it with the device. Image: Shutterstock.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 22 – 28 April 2024

IT Governance

Data breached: 4,186,879,104 messages. Keyboard app vulnerabilities reveal keystrokes to network eavesdroppers Security researchers have identified critical security vulnerabilities in Cloud-based pinyin keyboard apps from Baidu, Inc., Honor, Huawei, iFlytek, OPPO, Samsung Electronics, Tencent, Vivo and Xiaomi Technology.

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How to Maintain eDiscovery Data Integrity

eDiscovery Daily

When handling these confidential documents, it is important to keep these documents safe and secure. . As a vital part of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) , any data collected is done so with the intent to capture it exactly as intended or as it was actively being used. Work with a variety of data types.

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Supply Chain Security 101: An Expert’s View

Krebs on Security

alongside Tony Sager , senior vice president and chief evangelist at the Center for Internet Security and a former bug hunter at the U.S. National Security Agency. Tony Sager, senior vice president and chief evangelist at the Center for Internet Security. TS: Like a lot of things in security, the economics always win.

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A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

Krebs on Security

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. The 911 service as it exists today.

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Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part I

Krebs on Security

Now, after more than seven years in prison Hieupc is back in his home country and hoping to convince other would-be cybercrooks to use their computer skills for good. Ten years ago, then 19-year-old hacker Ngo was a regular on the Vietnamese-language computer hacking forums. Hieu Minh Ngo, in his teens. BEGINNINGS.

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Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

Until recently, I was fairly active on Twitter , regularly tweeting to more than 350,000 followers about important security news and stories here. Facing a backlash from lawmakers and the public, the IRS soon reverses course , saying video selfies will be optional and that any biometric data collected will be destroyed after verification.

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