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Security News Bites for the Week Ending July 21, 2023

Well That is a Bit of an Oops A Google employee uploaded a list of 5,600 Virus Total customer administrators to Virus Total itself, making it visible to anyone. Among the users were admins from the NSA, Pentagon, FBI. UK Ministry of Defense and ministries in Germany, Japan, Qatar, Turkey, Frances and a dozen other […]

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Why You Should Opt Out of Sharing Data With Your Cell Provider

AT&T lost control of data of nine million customers. T-Mobile lost data belonging to tens of almost a hundred million customers. Other carriers have too. All mobile providers collect a lot of data. Data for billing, data for profiling, data for selling ads. All kinds of data. Location data. They know every cell site that […]

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Security News for the Week Ending January 6, 2023

Welcome 2023! Hopefully, it will be better for cybersecurity. Hopefully. More FTX Cybercrime The DoJ has launched yet another criminal probe in the bizarre FTX bankruptcy. This represents about $375 million out of the billions lost, but it looks like this theft took place right after the bankruptcy became public. Credit: MSN Slack Joins Okta […]

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Louisiana is First State to Require Gov ID to Visit Adult Web Sites

A Louisiana law now makes it a crime for web sites serving content harmful to minors to install age verification technology, but only for users who are in Louisiana. The law became effective on January 1st. The law says that any web site that intentionally publishes or distributes material harmful to minors shall be held […]

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Businesses Are Amazed That People Don’t Want to be Targeted with Ads

Small businesses especially, seem to be realizing, finally, that consumers don’t want to be the “product”. After Apple changed the rules last year to require businesses to get permission to track users’ behavior and share their information, things changed. The biggies – Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are estimating that they will lose $18 billion in […]

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Security News for the Week Ending July 22, 2022

San Francisco Cops Want Real-Time Access to Private Security Cameras for Surveillance San Francisco lawmakers are considering a bill that would allow police to use private security cameras for real time surveillance. This bill expands a 2019 city ordinance that requires police to seek authorization before acquiring and deploying surveillance, hence this notice. While it […]

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