Ring shares data with police without consent (but it’s in good faith), says Amazon

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 12:12:11 +0000

Amazon’s Ring is in hot water after revealing in a letter to Senator Ed Markey that it shared data without permission 11 times this year.

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Amazon Photos vulnerability could have given attackers access to user files and data

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 15:25:24 +0000

The retail giant patched a serious flaw in its Amazon Photos app that left user access token exposed to potential attackers.

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De-Googling Carey Parker’s (and your) life: Lock and Code S03E06

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2022 20:41:07 +0000

This week on Lock and Code, we talk about taking the right steps to removing Google and its many services from your life.

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Securitas breached, 3TB of airport employee records exposed

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2022 11:42:35 +0000

Securitas, a multinational security services company, left its Amazon S3 buckets open, compromising more than a million files.

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How Phishers Are Slinking Their Links Into LinkedIn

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2022 18:49:38 +0000

If you received a link to LinkedIn.com via email, SMS or instant message, would you click it? Spammers, phishers and other ne’er-do-wells are hoping you will, because they’ve long taken advantage of a marketing feature on the business networking site which lets them create a LinkedIn.com link that bounces your browser to other websites, such as phishing pages that mimic top online brands (but chiefly Linkedin’s parent firm Microsoft).

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Senate Committee passes new antitrust bill aimed at Big Tech companies

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 17:14:15 +0000

A highly criticized new antitrust bill is on its way to the full Senate after a Senate committee approved it.

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Smart speakers mistakenly eavesdrop up to 19 times a day

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 11:47:17 +0000

That smart home speaker isn’t listening to everything you say, according to new research – but it is listening a lot more than it should.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/J0yh5jhzK8w” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Ring makes 2FA mandatory to keep hackers out of your doorbell account

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 10:03:25 +0000

Amazon is following Google’s lead by forcing all users to use two-factor authentication when logging into their Ring accounts.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/ZP4hOfnjH24″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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