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U.S. Charges 4 Chinese Military Officers in 2017 Equifax Hack

Krebs on Security

as members of the PLA’s 54 th Research Institute, a component of the Chinese military. Attorney General Bill Barr said at a press conference today that the Justice Department doesn’t normally charge members of another country’s military with crimes (this is only the second time the agency has indicted Chinese military hackers).

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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. “It’s a good first step,” Levin said of Apple’s privacy update in March. Image: Shutterstock.

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The US Military Buys Commercial Location Data

Schneier on Security

Vice has a long article about how the US military buys commercial location data worldwide. military is buying the granular movement data of people around the world, harvested from innocuous-seeming apps, Motherboard has learned. This isn’t new, this isn’t just data of non-US citizens, and this isn’t the US military.

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News alert: LayerX Security raises $24M Series A funding for its ‘enterprise browser’ security platform

The Last Watchdog

Tel Aviv, Israel, May 2, 2024, CyberNewsWire — LayerX , pioneer of the LayerX Browser Security platform, today announced $24 million in Series A funding led by Glilot+, the early-growth fund of Glilot Capital Partners, with participation from Dell Technologies Capital and other investors.

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FTC Defends Expansive Privacy and Data Security ANPR at Public Forum

Data Matters

The FTC continues its defense of the wide-reaching Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) on “ Commercial Surveillance and Data Security ” that the Commission, by a 3-2 vote, issued in August. Marshall Erwin , Chief Security Officer, Mozilla. Caitriona Fitzgerald , Deputy Director, Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC).

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 473 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Security Affairs

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 March 2024

IT Governance

Source (New) Transport USA Yes 3,815 Okta Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Cyber security USA Yes 3,800 Shah Dixit & Associates, P.C. million for security failings relating to a 2018 cyber attack on its mobile banking platform. Source (New) Professional services Netherlands Yes 28.3 UniCredit fined €2.8