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US citizens lost more than $68M to SIM swap attacks in 2021, FBI warns

Security Affairs

In 2018, the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received complaints for 1,611 SIM swapping attacks, while the number of complaints in the period between 2018 e 2002 was 320 causing a total of losses of $12 million. Authenticate calls from third party authorized retailers requesting. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Spanish police dismantled SIM swapping gang who stole money from victims’ bank accounts

Security Affairs

” The first SIM swapping attack attributed to this gang took place on March 2021, at the time Spanish police received two complaints about fraudulent transactions in different geographical locations in Spain. Authenticate calls from third party authorized retailers requesting. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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MY TAKE: New ‘cyberthreat index’ shows SMBs cognizant of big risks, ill-prepared to deal with them

The Last Watchdog

This appears to be even more true today than it was when I began writing about business cyber risks at USA TODAY more than a decade ago. The company got its start in 2002 in Gulf Breeze, Florida, as a two-man operation that set out to help small firms filter the early waves of email spam. Talk more soon.

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Silicon Review awards Import.io top workplace of the year

Import.IO

Web data from thousands of retail websites is used to monitor hourly price changes on millions of products sold online. It’s the small things that count: we keep our cameras on during all video meetings (internal and external) and we make sure that we take the time to talk about things other than the work at hand in every meeting.

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Reflecting on Data Citizens ‘19: The Future of Data Intelligence Starts Now

Collibra

Last week we hosted the largest Data Citizens yet, with close to 700 attendees representing over 300 companies from industries spanning financial services, utilities, telco, technology, retail, healthcare, universities, and more. In the meantime, let’s take the enthusiasm from this year’s event with us into the future.

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FTC Investigating Privacy Risks to Data Stored on Digital Copiers

Hunton Privacy

Congressman Markey had urged the FTC to investigate this issue after a CBS News exposé showed that almost every digital copier produced since 2002 stores on its hard drive images of documents that are “scanned, copied or emailed by the machine” – including documents with sensitive personal information.

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States Attempt to Address Privacy Risks Associated with Digital Copiers and Electronic Waste

Hunton Privacy

Retailers of covered electronic equipment will be required to provide consumers with information at the point of sale about opportunities offered by manufacturers for the return of electronic waste, to the extent they have been provided such information by the manufacturer.

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