The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The surveillance regime the UK government has built seriously undermines our freedom,” Megan Golding, a lawyer speaking for privacy advocates, stated. It’s now commonplace for high-resolution video cams to feed endless streams of image data into increasingly intelligent data mining software.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Some of those who bought the spyware were allegedly able to see live locations of the devices, view the targets emails, photos, web browsing history, text messages, video calls, etc. It's important that people think this isn't mine. So here's the thing, SpyPhone is not an isolated incident. There are literally dozens of other examples.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

NetScout: Observed 13,142,840 DDoS attacks, including: 104,216 video gaming enterprise attacks. > 54% of all data breaches come from ransomware attacks in manufacturing, healthcare, government, financial, retail, and technology industries. 27% of all attacks mine crypto currencies, usually on unmonitored cloud systems.

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