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Why You Should Opt Out of Sharing Data With Your Mobile Provider

Krebs on Security

A new breach involving data from nine million AT&T customers is a fresh reminder that your mobile provider likely collects and shares a great deal of information about where you go and what you do with your mobile device — unless and until you affirmatively opt out of this data collection.

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Ransomfeed – Third Quarter Report 2023 is out!

Security Affairs

The data collected unearthed a total of 1771 ransomware claims, with 55 recorded incidents in Italy. Throughout this period, the platform diligently tracked 185 criminal groups operating worldwide, meticulously tracing 342 servers employed for ransomware activities.

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Bill to Amend the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act Introduced to Congress

Hunton Privacy

Financial institutions also would be required to specify in their privacy notice a description of any NPI collected for purposes that extend beyond providing the particular financial product or service.

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Operation Blacksmith: Lazarus exploits Log4j flaws to deploy DLang malware

Security Affairs

Re-fingerprinting the infected systems indicates the data collected by Lazarus via NineRAT may be shared by other APT groups and essentially resides in a different repository from the fingerprint data collected initially by Lazarus during their initial access and implant deployment phase.”

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US: Florida Privacy Bill Advances

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

Perhaps the most significant change to existing law is that the Bill expands the definition of “personal information” under Florida’s data breach law to include biometric information. If adopted, notably, the Bill’s definition of “personal information” applies to information about an individual and a household.

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FTC Releases Report on Dark Patterns

Hunton Privacy

Design Elements that Obscure or Subvert Privacy Choices : These dark patterns obscure consumers’ privacy choices and what those choices mean via user interfaces that: “(1) do not allow consumers to definitively reject data collection or use; (2) repeatedly prompt consumers to select settings they wish to avoid; (3) present confusing toggle settings (..)

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Baidu Android apps removed from Play Store because caught collecting user details

Security Affairs

The code found in both apps allowed to gather device data, including model, MAC address, carrier information, and IMSI (International Mobile Subscriber Identity) number. The data collection code was found in the Baidu Push SDK, used to show real-time notifications inside both apps. Unit 42 notified Baidu of this discovery.