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Security News Update for October 25, 2024

Global Police Crackdown Arrests 5,000, Shuts Down Sites A global police crackdown in June and July against illegal sports gambling led to thousands of arrests and website shutdowns while also disrupting scam centers and their related human trafficking and money laundering operations, Interpol reported Thursday. They arrested 5,100 people, recovered $59 million in proceeds and […]

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Your Digital Exhaust **IS** Being Hoovered Up

What is your digital exhaust? It is all the clues you leave behind as you navigate your digital journey. Whether it is location data that you give to a game or a cell phone tower that you ping off of. Or that box you checked without reading when you installed that app. They all are […]

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Feds Trying to Figure Out Liability for Software Bugs

The Cyberspace Solarium Commission created a list six years ago of things the government should be doing with regard to cybersecurity policy. The commission made 82 recommendations and each year some of them have been enacted into law, usually as part of the national defense authorization act (NDAA), a must pass bill that funds the […]

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Security News Update for October 18, 2024

Now North Korea Using Fake IT Workers to Extort Employers Scams evolve. Now that the scam concept is public, North Korea is pivoting. They are extorting the companies that hire these North Koreans as IT employees after the employees steal corporate secrets. Read the details here. SURPRISE! (Not) – OpenAI Confirms Attackers use ChatGPT to […]

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Will Your DNA Data be Sold Soon?

15 million people trusted 23andMe with their DNA data. Their privacy policy says how they will use your data. Sort of. After all, lawyers wrote it. 23andMe is, to be polite, having a bit of a financial challenge. The stock is about to be delisted. It shut down its in-house drug development unit last month. […]

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