Former Uber CSO convicted of covering up megabreach back in 2016
Credit to Author: Naked Security writer| Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2022 01:04:17 +0000
Obstructed FTC proceedings, and concealed a crime, said the jury.
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“You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it,” Scott McNealy said of online privacy back in 1999, a view the former CEO of the now-defunct Sun Microsystems reiterated in 2015. Despite the hue and cry his initial remarks caused, he’s been proven largely correct.
Cookies, beacons, digital signatures, trackers, and other technologies on websites and in apps let advertisers, businesses, governments, and even criminals build a profile about what you do, who you know, and who you are at very intimate levels of detail. Remember that 2012 story about how Target could tell a teenager was pregnant before her parents knew, based on her online activities? That is the norm today. Google and Facebook are the most notorious commercial internet spies, and among the most pervasive, but they are hardly alone.
TikTok’s “secret operation” tracks you even if you don’t use it
Categories: News Categories: Privacy If you think TikTok is acting like Google or Meta when collecting data, you’re not wrong. |
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Read moreRomance scammer and BEC fraudster sent to prison for 25 years
Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2022 15:12:23 +0000
Two years of scamming + $10 million leeched = 25 years in prison. Just in time for #Cybermonth.
Read moreOptus breach – Aussie telco told it will have to pay to replace IDs
Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 13:55:20 +0000
Licence compromised? Passport number burned? Need a new one? Who’s going to pay?
Read moreFacebook users sue Meta for allegedly building “secret workaround” to Apple privacy safeguards
Categories: News Categories: Privacy Meta is being sued by a couple of its users for allegedly deliberately circumventing Apple’s privacy features on the iPhone. |
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Read moreTikTok faces $28m fine for failing to protect children’s privacy
Categories: News Tags: ICO Tags: tiktok Tags: data Tags: protection Tags: kids Tags: children Tags: fine Tags: privacy Tags: safety The ICOs is looking to fine TikTok over what it claims are issues related to the UK’s data protection laws. |
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Read moreTwitter fixes bug that left devices logged in after password reset
Categories: News Categories: Privacy Twitter says it has fixed a bug that meant users weren’t logged out of active sessions on all devices after manually resetting their passwords. |
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Read moreMorgan Stanley’s years-long “extensive failure” to protect customer data ends in huge fine
Categories: News Categories: Privacy The SEC has unearthed a long list of whoopsies by Morgan Stanley, all involving the mishandling of sensitive data when disposing of devices. |
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Read moreUBER HAS BEEN HACKED, boasts hacker – how to stop it happening to you
Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 15:43:41 +0000
Uber is all over the news for a widely-publicised data breach. We help you answer the question, “How do I stop this happening to me?”
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