Adam Levin

JANUARY 28, 2019

Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet, is the go-to story for Data Privacy Day with its new “user-friendly” tool called Replica, which allows city planners see “how, when, and where people travel in urban areas.”. The Intercept’s explainer details a troubling use of consumer data.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2020

A researcher is warning that Google is indexing the phone numbers of WhatsApp users raising serious privacy concerns. mining social media accounts where the victim use the same profile picture). mining social media accounts where the victim use the same profile picture). SecurityAffairs – Whatsapp, privacy).

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Wildlife crime syndicates can not only coordinate better but can mine growing public data sets, often of geotagged images. Privacy matters for tigers, for snow leopards, for elephants and rhinos ­ and even for tortoises and sharks.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 21, 2018

Interesting paper " A first look at browser-based cryptojacking ": Abstract : In this paper, we examine the recent trend towards in-browser mining of cryptocurrencies; in particular, the mining of Monero through Coinhive and similar code-bases.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 28, 2019

The end game for this particular hacking ring is to install crypto currency mining routines on compromised Linux servers. Each of us have a responsibility to embrace best privacy and security practices. Targeting one device. This includes consumers, employees, company owners, managers, senior executives and board members.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Many sets of data, both research and grey, fall outside privacy regulations such as HIPAA, FERPA, and PII. Commercial entities are besieging universities with requests for access to data or for partnerships to mine them.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2019

For the second year in a row, denizens of a large German-language online forum have donated more than USD $250,000 to cancer research organizations in protest of a story KrebsOnSecurity published in 2018 that unmasked the creators of Coinhive , a now-defunct cryptocurrency mining service that was massively abused by cybercriminals.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

We’re just a month and change into the new year, and already there have been two notable developments underscoring the fact that some big privacy and civil liberties questions need to be addressed before continuing the wide-scale deployment of advanced facial recognition systems. It’s a healthy thing that a captain of industry can see this.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 14, 2021

A new machine learning tool aims to mine privacy policies on behalf of users.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Yet I also find myself constantly using VPNs for a variety of security and privacy related reasons and it got me thinking - why? In the end I broke it down into 3 Ps: padlocks, phishing and privacy. But as Scott said earlier on, having privacy on your traffic doesn't mean you're communicating with someone you actually want to.

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

A federal appellate court ruled that mining and aggregating user data publicly posted to social media sites is allowable by law. The post Court Rules in Favor of Mining LinkedIn User Data appeared first on Adam Levin.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Preserving privacy for a greater good The Internet was designed as a platform for peer research, not for the vast scale and diverse uses we see today. By opting for an open and collective decision-making process, they were able to retain the trust of their vast community, including mine.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 21, 2020

The agencies said crooks use the vished VPN credentials to mine the victim company databases for their customers’ personal information to leverage in other attacks. “The monetizing method varied depending on the company but was highly aggressive with a tight timeline between the initial breach and the disruptive cashout scheme.”

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg infamously declared that privacy “is no longer a social norm” in 2010, he was merely parroting a corporate imperative that Google had long since established. But what if companies chose to respect an individual’s right to privacy, especially when he or she goes online? Privacy as good business.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 30, 2020

In 2018, KrebsOnSecurity unmasked the creators of Coinhive — a now-defunct cryptocurrency mining service that was being massively abused by cybercriminals — as the administrators of a popular German language image-hosting forum.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 11, 2023

The Washington Post has an article about popular printing services, and whether or not they read your documents and mine the data when you use them for printing: Ideally, printing services should avoid storing the content of your files, or at least delete daily.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

However, if an attacker possesses 51% or more of the computational power of the entire network, they can force nodes to accept their alternate chain, because it’s built with more mining power than the “legitimate” chain currently on the network. Attackers can use this method of rewriting history to reverse transactions.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MARCH 22, 2018

Speaking to ITV’s Good Morning Britain after criticising Facebook for breaching the privacy of millions of its users, Hancock admitted he received complaints about the way his own app accessed users’ data. Continue reading.

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WIRED Threat Level

AUGUST 18, 2022

The Freedom of Information Act helps Americans learn what the government is up to. The Poseys exploited it—and became unlikely defenders of transparency.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 11, 2022

The blue-sky mission is to bring modern data mining and machine learning technologies to bear delivering personalized services that ameliorate not just physical ailments, but also mental and even emotional ones. No different than any other industry, the healthcare sector must overcome rapidly expanding privacy and data security pitfalls.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MARCH 22, 2018

Non-profit organisation behind Firefox browser announces move after Cambridge Analytica revelations Mozilla, which makes the popular Firefox web browser, has become the first major organisation to stop advertising on Facebook amid the controversy over the Cambridge Analytica files.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

In that caper, a core API was left open allowing them to exploit it and begin using Tesla’s servers to mine cryptocurrency. Compliance with existing and fresh data security and privacy rules and regulations is another variable driving companies to start introducing SecOps into their workflow.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 9, 2023

For example, there were four phone numbers on my Experian credit file: Only one of them was mine, and that one hasn’t been mine for ages. Or when security and privacy shortcuts are found to be intentional, like for cost-saving reasons. Now I know why Experian has NEVER let me view my own file via their website.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2021

Sophos researchers that investigated the recently uncovered crypto-mining campaign targeting SQL servers with MrbMiner malware believe that it was conducted by an Iran-based company. Experts noticed that the same username used for the GitHub account was present on the machine used to compile the miner. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 24, 2019

At First American, security, privacy and confidentiality are of the highest priority and we are committed to protecting our customers’ information. The company took immediate action to address the situation and shut down external access to the application. .”

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KnowBe4

DECEMBER 13, 2020

The post 2021 Predictions Are Foolhardy – Here Are Four of Mine appeared first on MediaPRO.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

18 Central European Time (CET), cyptocurrency mining service NiceHash disccovered that some of the settings for its domain registration records at GoDaddy were changed without authorization, briefly redirecting email and web traffic for the site. ” In the early morning hours of Nov.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Unfortunately, however, the BBC reports that there are a few “teething troubles […] with some users saying their privacy has been compromised after responding to an on-screen prompt asking for access to their photo library. Wait a moment – cryptocurrency mining ? What’s that? An average victim machine could “generate about $0.25

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 18, 2021

Aside from its core business competency — checking to make sure the property at issue in any real estate transaction is unencumbered by any liens or other legal claims against it — First American basically has one job: Protect the privacy and security of all these documents.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

This week, bitcoin seems to have gotten the thumbs up for innovation despite some shady origins, lots of background details came out about the circumstances that approved NSA dragnet, and privacy is declared an anomaly. Bitcoin mining operation. Book Related ELSE bitcoin else glass Google nsa privacy' And tweet us links!

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The Guardian Data Protection

MARCH 25, 2018

Related: How to protect your Facebook privacy – or delete yourself completely Oh wow my deleted Facebook Zip file contains info on every single phone cellphone call and text I made for about a year- cool totally not creepy. I had a similar issue with mine on Android. Don't have FB installed but I do use Messenger and Instagram.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 13, 2018

However, these fraudsters don’t really care about snatching up your credentials or mine. By now, your personal information and mine has been hacked multiple times and is readily on sale in the Dark Web. There’s a new breed of identity thief at work plundering consumers and companies.

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Information Management Resources

MAY 30, 2019

District judge is overseeing dozens of suits alleging users have no real control over their personal information, and that the company has repeatedly misled users to continue mining it.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2024

Indeed, while anonymity provides privacy and security for transactions, it can also be exploited by criminals for illicit activities, such as money laundering , drug trafficking, illegal arms sales, and terrorist financing. Compromised websites and malware are often at the root of these types of attacks.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MARCH 20, 2018

The data mining, which the council says is legal, will be used to market the city to tourists The Gold Coast council will use a new city wifi service to harvest Facebook data from visitors to next month’s Commonwealth Games. Related: Cambridge Analytica may be guilty of hype.

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Dark Reading

AUGUST 31, 2022

No-code startups such as Mine PrivacyOps say they offer best of both worlds — quick development and compliance with privacy laws.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2023

Initially, they deployed and executed a separate Monero miner alongside the usual RapperBot binary, but starting from January 2023, they included the mining capabilities in the bot. The malware decodes the mining pools and Monero wallet addresses and updates the configuration before starting the embedded miner.

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