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The famous “distracted boyfriend” meme: A man is walking with his girlfriend but looks backwards at another woman, to the disgust of his girlfriend

(In)Fidelity Admits Data Breach 8 Weeks Ago — 77K PII Lost

FMR FAIL: Huge investment firm won’t say how it was hacked ...

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“Oh, won’t somebody please think of the children?”

Digital Crack for Kids: TikTok Sued Again by 14 AGs

Richi Jennings | October 9, 2024 | Bytedance, children, Children and smartphones, Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), china, chinese government, Coppa, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, , spyware, TikTok, TikTok Ban, Won’t somebody think of the children?

For You Plague: TikTok’s in trouble once more—this time, some states complain it’s breaking laws by harvesting children’s data and keeping them addicted ...

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Biggest Ever DDoS is Threat to OT Critical Infrastructure

Egyptian River Floods: Operational technology (OT) targeted in “world record” 3.8 Tb/s distributed denial of service (DDoS) ...

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Kia’s Huge Security Hole: FIXED (Finally)

Richi Jennings | September 30, 2024 | Car Dealer, connected car security, Connected Cars, connected vehicle, Connected Vehicles, connected-car, Consumer IoT, Internet of things, Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Things (IoT) Security, Internet of Things cyber security, iot, Kia, Korea, SB Blogwatch, South Korea, southkorea

Connected cars considered crud: Kia promises bug never exploited. But even 10-year-old cars were vulnerable ...

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E2EE is MIA in iPhone/Android Chat — GSMA Gonna Fix it

Richi Jennings | September 18, 2024 | android, Apple, Apple iOS, Apple iPhone, china, E2EE, end-to-end, end-to-end encryption, google, Great Firewall of China, GSMA, iChat, imessage, ios, iOS 18, iPhone, iphone security, MLS, RCS, RCS protocol, SB Blogwatch, SMS, SMS messages

No More Barf-Green Bubbles? GSM Association is “excited” to bring Apple and Google closer together, but encryption is still lacking ...

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China Cyberwar Coming? Versa’s Vice: Volt Typhoon’s Target

Richi Jennings | August 28, 2024 | CenturyLink, china, china espionage, China-linked Hackers, China-nexus cyber attacks, China-nexus cyber espionage, CVE-2024-39717, Lumen, Lumen Technologies, Peoples Republic of China, SB Blogwatch, Versa Director, Versa Neworks, VersaMem, Volt Typhoon

Xi whiz: Versa Networks criticized for swerving the blame ...

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‘Terrorgram’ Telegram Terrorists Trash Transformers — Grid in Peril

Should’ve listened to Edison: After the arrest of Pavel Durov—the Telegram CEO—comes news of domestic extremists using the chat app to organize ...

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Don’t Mess With Texas Privacy: AG Sues GM for $18 BILLION

Richi Jennings | August 15, 2024 | Consumer IoT, Texas Data Privacy and Security Act, vehicle cybersecurity

KP♡TX PII: “General Motors has engaged in egregious business practices that violated Texans’ privacy … in unthinkable ways,” rants state attorney general Ken Paxton (pictured) ...

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