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FTC Announces Settlement Regarding Collecting Consumer TV Viewing Data

Hunton Privacy

The complaint alleged that VIZIO also provided viewers’ IP address information to data aggregators which facilitated the appending of specific consumer demographic information to the viewing data, including sex, age, income, marital status, household size, education level, home ownership and household value.

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Nation-State-Sponsored Attacks: Not Your Grandfather’s Cyber Attacks

Data Matters

Threat hunters at Kaspersky said that data collected on the attack indicated that the attack was extremely targeted, and difficult to detect because “[t]he infection chain itself [did] not leave any traces on the hard drive, as its components operate[d] in memory only, thus facilitating a fileless attack with a small footprint.”