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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 22 – 28 April 2024

IT Governance

Keyboard app vulnerabilities reveal keystrokes to network eavesdroppers Security researchers have identified critical security vulnerabilities in Cloud-based pinyin keyboard apps from Baidu, Inc., We identified certain accounts that we believe are affiliated with the Spy.pet website, which we have subsequently banned.”

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 26 February – 3 March 2024

IT Governance

Nearly 20 million Cutout.Pro users’ data breached Cutout.Pro, an AI photo and video editing platform, has suffered a data breach. Source (New) Engineering Japan Yes >5 TB Array Networks Source (New) Cyber security USA Yes 2.5 Data breached: 21,100,000 records. The threat actor, KryptonZambie, listed a 5.93

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IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access

Krebs on Security

The agency says that by the summer of 2022, the only way to log in to irs.gov will be through ID.me , an online identity verification service that requires applicants to submit copies of bills and identity documents, as well as a live video feed of their faces via a mobile device. The IRS says it will require ID.me McLean, Va.-based

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ROUNDTABLE: Huge Capital One breach shows too little is being done to preserve data privacy

The Last Watchdog

That includes social security and social insurance numbers, bank account numbers, phone numbers, birth dates, email addresses and self-reported income; in short, just about everything on an identity thief’s wish list. Not even doing this YouTube video apology was enough to save Smith his job.

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Rapper Scams $1.2M in COVID-19 Relief, Gloats with ‘EDD’ Video

Threatpost

"Nuke Bizzle" faces 22 years in prison after brazenly bragging about an identity-theft campaign in his music video, "EDD.".

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GUEST ESSAY: Scammers leverage social media, clever con games to carry out digital exploitation

The Last Watchdog

This online epidemic involves the blackmail of a victim by the perpetrator via material gained against them, typically in the form of nude photos and videos. Exploitation drivers From the case of Hegestratos committing insurance fraud by sinking a ship in 300 B.C., The advancement of fraud has materialized parallel to that of currency.

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SHARED INTEL Q&A: My thoughts and opinions about cyber threats — as discussed with OneRep

The Last Watchdog

Editor’s note: I recently had the chance to participate in a discussion about the overall state of privacy and cybersecurity with Erin Kapczynski, OneRep’s senior vice president of B2B marketing. OneRep provides a consumer service that scrubs your personal information from Google and dozens of privacy-breaching websites.