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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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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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US Likely to Sign Really Bad Cybercrime Treaty

An American diplomat that helped negotiate a UN cybercrime treaty pushed by Russia and China said it is likely to be approved by the UN. Administration officials have acknowledged concerns about the treaty in its current form. Human rights advocates say it would enable surveillance on a massive scale and do so in complete secrecy. […]

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Russia Using AI and Sex to Lure Victims

One of the biggest uses of the Internet is to sell sex. Whether it is chat rooms, pictures of naked people, whatever, it is a big money maker on the Internet. The hottest subject in town these days, even hotter than crypto, is AI. So what are Russian hackers doing? They are combining sex and […]

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