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Instagram introduces new ways for users to verify their age

June 27, 2022 0 Comments GDPR, Instagram, Machine Learning, meta, neural networks, Privacy, social vouching, video selfie

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 09:47:00 +0000

Meta has announced it’s going to test new age verification methods like social vouching and video selfies for INstagram users.

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A week in security (March 2 – 8)

March 17, 2020 0 Comments A week in security, awis, cathay pacific, coronavirus, Exploit, GDPR, malware, Microsoft, Mobile, phishing, round up, Security, tesco, week in security, zynga

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2020 20:07:46 +0000

A roundup of the previous week’s security headlines, including the introduction of a new series on child identity theft, an examination of law enforcement’s cybersecurity woes, a progress check on our stalkerware initiative, and more coronavirus scammers on the prowl.

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A week in security

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Cookie-nabbing app could have served users side helping of XSS

February 14, 2020 0 Comments cookie consent, cookies, cross-site scripting, CVE, GDPR, gdpr cookie consent plugin, ninja technologies, security threats, wordfence, Wordpress, XSS

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 12:29:39 +0000

A popular GDPR compliance WordPress plugin vendor has patched a flaw that rendered both site visitors and admins vulnerable to XSS attacks.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/uCTRH0KiVPg” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Fintech security: the challenges and fails of a new era

February 5, 2020 0 Comments cryptocurrency, finacials, fintech, GDPR, green padlock, identity management, Magecart, payment requests, Ransomware, Vital infrastructure, web skimmers

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 19:24:35 +0000

The fintech industry has gone through some dramatic changes during the last decade and is still trying to adapt. Is security still one of their priorities?

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Vital infrastructure

Tags: cryptocurrency finacials fintech gdpr green padlock identity management Magecart payment requests ransomware vital infrastructure web skimmers

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Washington Privacy Act welcomed by corporate and nonprofit actors

February 4, 2020 0 Comments 2019 washington privacy act, 2020 washington privacy act, California Consumer Privacy Act, CCPA, consumer reports, data portability, data privacy law, data privacy laws, data privacy legislation, facial recognition, future of privacy forum, GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, Microsoft, personal data, Privacy, right to access, right to correct, right to delete, senator reuven carlyle, sensitive data, washington privacy act, washington privacy act 2019, washington privacy act 2020, wpa

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 16:35:25 +0000

The Washington Privacy Act would extend new data rights of access, correction, and deletion to Washington residents, with new rules on facial recognition.

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Privacy

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UN hacked via unpatched SharePoint server

January 31, 2020 0 Comments cve-2019-0604, data loss, exposed data, GDPR, GDPR compliance, hacked servers, Privacy, security threats, sharepoint, the new humanitarian, un, un secretary-general, vulnerability

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 13:04:44 +0000

UN staffers: the “entire domain” was probably compromised by an attacker who was lurking on the UN’s networks.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/RonIAIVbyIQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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NIST’s new privacy rules – what you need to know

January 22, 2020 0 Comments CCPA, cybersecurity framework, GDPR, national institute of standards and technology, nist, Privacy, privacy framework, privacy regulation

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 10:56:40 +0000

How do you ensure you’re compliant with privacy regulations? NIST has released a Privacy Framework to help you get your house in order.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/qZfuL8tJwO4″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Apps are sharing more of your data with ad industry than you may think

January 16, 2020 0 Comments adcolony, ads, advertising, amazon, Android, app privacy, appnexus, appsflyer, behavioral ad industry, braze, bucksense, California Consumer Privacy Act, CCPA, clue, data brokers, digital marketing bill of rights for minors, drug use, facebook, fluxloop, fysical, GDPR, Google, gps data, grindr, happn, leanplum, location data, Marketing, Mobile, mobile ad platforms, mobile ads, mobile marketing, muslim: qibla finder, muslims, my talking tom 2, mydays, neura, norwegian consumer council, okcupid, openx, perfect365, PII, placer, places/fouraquare, political views, Privacy, profiling, pubnative, qibla finder, receptiv, religious preferences, safegraph, sexual orientation, smaato, targeted advertising, tinder, twitter, unacast, verve, vungle, wave keyboard

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 13:43:44 +0000

Apps like Grindr, Tinder and Happn are (over-)sharing data about sexuality, religion, and location with a shadowy network of data brokers. And it’s not just dating apps that are doing it…<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/NPeC4ksaHAY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Online privacy in 2019: a legislative review

December 23, 2019 0 Comments access act, California Consumer Privacy Act, comprehensive data privacy law, comprehensive data privacy legislation, copra, dashboard act, data as property, data as property rights, data interoperability, data portability, Data privacy, data privacy law, data privacy legislation, European Union, GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, interoperability, mind your own business act, online privacy, online privacy law, online privacy legislation, pay-for-privacy, Privacy, US data privacy legislation

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 17:41:31 +0000

Americans enjoy no federal rights to access their data, correct their data, easily move their data from one company to another, or individually sue a company that invades their private lives online. Several US Senators want to change that.

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Privacy

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