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California Federal Court Weighs In (Again) on Social Media Scraping
Social media sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn have collected personal information on hundreds of millions of subscribers. They have also promised those subscribers that their data will only be shared or ...
Securing Devices at Home and Work
It's National Cybersecurity Awareness Month! We're sharing tips to secure your devices at home and at work so that you can #BeCyberSmart. The post Securing Devices at Home and Work appeared first ...
The Social Dilemma
In episode 142 for October 12th 2020: My conversation about the pros and cons of the Netflix documentary “The Social Dilemma” with frequent guest, Kevin Johnson. The Social Dilemma is a popular ...
APWG: SSL Certificates No Longer Indication of Safe Browsing
The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) has released its Phishing Activity Trends Report analyzing phishing attacks and identifying theft techniques reported by its members for Q2 of 2020. Key highlights of the report ...
Election Interference: The Russians Are Back, or They Never Left
Every day brings new revelations on Russia’s strategy of disruption to the west, the United States specifically. As Yogi Berra said, “It is déjà vu all over again”—in December 2017 we wrote ...
Almost 235 Million YouTube, TikTok and Instagram Profiles Exposed Online by Unsecured Database
A security researcher has found a database with almost 235 social media profiles scraped from the Internet, likely belonging to Social Data. Public user data is precious, and many companies want to ...
Audio Recordings Used to Copy Keys, Carnival Ransomware Attack, Social Media Profile Data Exposed
In episode 135 for August 24th 2020: Details on how researchers can use audio recordings of keys being used in locks to create copies, Carnival cruise lines becomes the victim of a ...
Identifying COVID-19 Phishing Scams
As we continue to move through 2020 it has become very clear that cyber criminals are taking advantage of the COVID-19 crisis as they continue to target new victims every day. In ...
TikTok and National Security: The Need for a Comprehensive U.S. Privacy Law
Last week, President Donald Trump threatened to ban the popular social media platform TikTok, whose corporate owner is a Chinese company with alleged ties to the Chinese Communist Party. Trump’s stated grounds ...
74% of Internet Users Feel They Have No Control Over the Personal Information Collected on Them
New research conducted by the Ponemon Institute reveals a substantial lack of empowerment felt by consumers when it comes to their data privacy. There is also a gap between the data protection ...
