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Lawmakers look to spread COPPA out to cover kids up to 16

January 13, 2020 0 Comments biometrics, children, Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, Coppa, Google, gps, Law & order, location data, online tracking, PII, Privacy, youtube

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 11:14:48 +0000

If that bill passes, you can say bye-bye to YouTube, says one content creator.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/fcctp3f85Mc” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Fake-review purge: Facebook boots 188 groups, eBay bans 140 shills

January 10, 2020 0 Comments cma, competition and markets authority, ebay, facebook, fake reviews, Law & order, review sites, sock puppets, tripadvisor, yelp

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 10:06:00 +0000

After a poke from the UK’s watchdog, the companies promised to beef up filters to strain out those who write, buy and sell fluffy nonsense.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/7xU4phR6tX8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Apple’s scanning iCloud photos for child abuse images

January 9, 2020 0 Comments Apple, ces, child abuse imagery, child porn, consumer electronics show, hashing, icloud, image matching, jane horvath, Law & order, photodna, Privacy

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2020 12:22:36 +0000

It isn’t new, all the tech giants do it, and your privacy’s intact – unless you’re dealing in illegal imagery with telltale hashing.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/Z3fh0bRjivU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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FBI asks Apple to help it unlock iPhones of naval base shooter

January 9, 2020 0 Comments #nobackdoors, Apple, cellebrite, Cryptography, dana boente, FBI, Forensics, iOS, iPhone, iphone cracking, Law & order, Mobile, mobile phone data, mohammed saeed alshamrani, murder, murderers, pensacola, Privacy, saudi royal air force, us naval base

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2020 11:41:31 +0000

This could signal a renewed war between Apple and law enforcement over breaking encryption.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/TYQ-v0iT5FM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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YouTube to treat all kid-aimed videos like they’re COPPA-liable

January 8, 2020 0 Comments children online, Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, Coppa, Federal Trade Commission, FTC, Google, kids, Law & order, Privacy, youtube

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 12:29:40 +0000

The FTC can fine content creators up to $42,530 per violation – even though they don’t collect, receive, nor have access to kids’ data.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/_7NLfWyE57Q” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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‘Maze’ ransomware threatens data exposure unless $6m ransom paid

January 7, 2020 0 Comments Adobe, Adobe Flash, data breach, Internet Explorer, Ireland, Law & order, macros, malware, maze, Microsoft, Ransomware, security threats, southwire, word documents

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2020 12:35:29 +0000

US cable and wire manufacturer, Southwire, last week filed a civil suit against Maze’s mysterious makers in Georgia Federal court.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/jNMBVgsS2Wg” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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IT exec sets up fake biz to scam his employer out of $6m

January 7, 2020 0 Comments fraud, hicham kabbaj, interactive systems, Law & order, metadata, Microsoft Word, wire fraud

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2020 11:45:41 +0000

He cooked up an IT vendor, its invoices, its vapor-gear, and the phantom employees who never showed up to do all those services.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/hCFk4KMyf3E” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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US military branches ban TikTok following Pentagon’s warning

January 7, 2020 0 Comments ban, china, cyber espionage, Government security, Law & order, Mobile, national security, Social networks, TikTok, transparency report, us military

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2020 11:11:55 +0000

The latest attempt to prove it’s not under China’s thumb: TikTok’s first transparency report.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/-aP1_y68iB8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Apple iCloud “data dump” extortionist avoids prison

December 27, 2019 0 Comments bust, Cybercrime, Law & order, nca

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 19:20:21 +0000

He claimed to have logins for millions of iCloud accounts, and told Apple he’d shut them all down unless he received a payoff.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/wV7IpBooz0s” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Congress passes anti-robocall bill

December 23, 2019 0 Comments call scams, congress, Law & order, Privacy, robocaller, robocalls, stir/shaken, traced act

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 13:20:16 +0000

A bill to punish robocallers has finished its passage through Congress and is expected to become law any day now.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/udpJFCXhb-g” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>