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Hacker wants $300 for 250,000 records stolen from sex worker site

October 14, 2019 0 Comments ashley madison, blackmail, breach, data breach, data loss, extortion, hookers.nl, Law & order, netherlands, prostitution, security threats, vbulletin, vulnerability

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 11:33:42 +0000

In spite of prostitution being legal in the Netherlands, this could lead to the same type of blackmail attempts/suicide from Ashley Madison.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/ohkoUzZ8kvQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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California outlaws facial recognition in police bodycams

October 10, 2019 0 Comments ab1215, aclu, american civil liberties union, automatic facial recognition, biometrics, california, facial recognition, Law & order, phil ting, police bodycams, Privacy, surveillance

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 11:40:29 +0000

The bill was introduced by Phil Ting: one of 26 state lawmakers misidentified as suspects in an ACLU test of the technology.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/bY53XoZiIlc” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Deepfakes have doubled, overwhelmingly targeting women

October 9, 2019 0 Comments AI, cyberbullying, deepfake audio, deepfake detection, deepfakes, deeptrace, fake news, Law & order, Machine Learning, pornography, Privacy, revenge porn, synthetic media

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 11:19:18 +0000

Deepfake tech has push-button apps and service portals. Can code commodification do the same for detection, so women can actually afford it?<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/OKH0ZUc2ZQE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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GPS tracker from stalked woman’s car led to indictment of 20 mobsters

October 8, 2019 0 Comments cyberstalking, extortion, gps, indictment, Law & order, loansharking, location data, location tracking, mafia, mobster, organized crime, Privacy, racketeering, sports bribery, stalker, stalking, wise guys

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 11:14:59 +0000

Girlfriend found it, girlfriend popped it onto a city bus, gadget got found, multiyear investigation got launched, 20 got indicted.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/z5Bf3GfVqZ0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Nationwide facial recognition ID program underway in France

October 8, 2019 0 Comments alicem, biometrics, cnil, digital identities, digital identity, facial recognition, france, GDPR, Government security, identity theft, la quadrature du net, Law & order, lqdn, national id card, passports, Privacy, tchap

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 10:36:10 +0000

It’s coming next month, in spite of a lawsuit and the data regulator’s protests about lack of consent, data security and privacy.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/dDDYjz1VwrY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Social media platforms can be forced to delete illegal content worldwide

October 7, 2019 0 Comments austria, defamation, EU, european court of justice, European Union, eva glawischnig-piesczek, facebook, greens, illegal content, Law & order, Social networks

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2019 11:05:57 +0000

The EU’s top court ruled that platforms like Facebook can be ordered to proactively seek out and delete all copies of illegal content.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/oaBb-PIYY-o” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Wi-Fi signals let researchers ID people through walls from their gait

October 7, 2019 0 Comments gait, IoT, Law & order, Privacy, radio frequency sensing, santa barbara, sensing, smart homes, university of california, Wi-fi, xmodal-id

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2019 10:36:22 +0000

Police could set up transceivers outside a building and compare spectrograms of suspects walking vs. crime scene footage.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/uthcWVmlUvo” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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£3 billion Safari iPhone privacy lawsuit given go-ahead

October 4, 2019 0 Comments Apple, Apple Safari, bgi, browser generated information, data protection, Google, Law & order, PII, Privacy, Safari, Web Browsers

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2019 11:36:48 +0000

A UK class action lawsuit against Google, that represents around 5 million iPhone users, can go ahead, according to the UK Court of Appeal.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/fsGgtlXfCI8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Hacker’s parents sentenced for selling his cryptocurrency

October 4, 2019 0 Comments carlie gunton, cryptocurrency, elliott gunton, etherdelta exchange, hack, jason gunton, Law & order, parents, talktalk, TalkTalk hack, wallet

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2019 10:45:02 +0000

“You misguidedly tried to help your son” by moving his cryptocurrency, but it “didn’t help him at all,” a judge said.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/MB5WHC5qb-0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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No federal privacy law will make it in the US this year, sources say

October 3, 2019 0 Comments california, California Consumer Privacy Act, CCPA, Data privacy, Federal Trade Commission, GDPR, Law & order, legislation, Privacy

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 12:19:55 +0000

Without one, the companies that collect our data will likely face compliance with California’s take-no-prisoners law, in effect 1 January 2020.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/Pjj93Rj42bA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>