Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

A federal appellate court ruled that mining and aggregating user data publicly posted to social media sites is allowable by law. The post Court Rules in Favor of Mining LinkedIn User Data appeared first on Adam Levin.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 21, 2018

Interesting paper " A first look at browser-based cryptojacking ": Abstract : In this paper, we examine the recent trend towards in-browser mining of cryptocurrencies; in particular, the mining of Monero through Coinhive and similar code-bases.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2020

A researcher is warning that Google is indexing the phone numbers of WhatsApp users raising serious privacy concerns. mining social media accounts where the victim use the same profile picture). mining social media accounts where the victim use the same profile picture). SecurityAffairs – Whatsapp, privacy).

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Preserving privacy for a greater good The Internet was designed as a platform for peer research, not for the vast scale and diverse uses we see today. By opting for an open and collective decision-making process, they were able to retain the trust of their vast community, including mine. People are wary of technology and its creators.

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WIRED Threat Level

AUGUST 18, 2022

The Freedom of Information Act helps Americans learn what the government is up to. The Poseys exploited it—and became unlikely defenders of transparency.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Unfortunately, however, the BBC reports that there are a few “teething troubles […] with some users saying their privacy has been compromised after responding to an on-screen prompt asking for access to their photo library. Wait a moment – cryptocurrency mining ? Here are this week’s stories. Ed Balls day is 28 April.). What’s that?

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Many sets of data, both research and grey, fall outside privacy regulations such as HIPAA, FERPA, and PII. Commercial entities are besieging universities with requests for access to data or for partnerships to mine them.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2024

Indeed, while anonymity provides privacy and security for transactions, it can also be exploited by criminals for illicit activities, such as money laundering , drug trafficking, illegal arms sales, and terrorist financing. Compromised websites and malware are often at the root of these types of attacks.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2023

Initially, they deployed and executed a separate Monero miner alongside the usual RapperBot binary, but starting from January 2023, they included the mining capabilities in the bot. The malware decodes the mining pools and Monero wallet addresses and updates the configuration before starting the embedded miner.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2024

Capital Health operates two hospitals in the New Jersey-Pennsylvania region: Regional Medical Center in Trenton and Capital Health Medical Center in Hopewell. Data breached: >10 million records. HealthEC LLC breached, almost 4.5 Information relating to nearly 4.5 Source (New) Legal USA Yes 310,297 Bit24.cash

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

We’re just a month and change into the new year, and already there have been two notable developments underscoring the fact that some big privacy and civil liberties questions need to be addressed before continuing the wide-scale deployment of advanced facial recognition systems. It’s a healthy thing that a captain of industry can see this.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MARCH 22, 2018

Speaking to ITV’s Good Morning Britain after criticising Facebook for breaching the privacy of millions of its users, Hancock admitted he received complaints about the way his own app accessed users’ data.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

However, if an attacker possesses 51% or more of the computational power of the entire network, they can force nodes to accept their alternate chain, because it’s built with more mining power than the “legitimate” chain currently on the network. Attackers can use this method of rewriting history to reverse transactions.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 28, 2019

The end game for this particular hacking ring is to install crypto currency mining routines on compromised Linux servers. Each of us have a responsibility to embrace best privacy and security practices. Targeting one device. This includes consumers, employees, company owners, managers, senior executives and board members.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 30, 2021

In many cases, this code is designed to avoid detection and the attacker can now deface your website, inject inappropriate ads or even mine for bitcoin. Over the last few years, attackers have been using such attacks to steal sensitive customer data such as payment and login information.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

citizens, raising serious concerns about patient privacy. Google’s access to patient data raises concerns among privacy advocates, particularly because at least 150 of the company’s employees have full access to highly personal information without patient consent or notification. . According to the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2019

For the second year in a row, denizens of a large German-language online forum have donated more than USD $250,000 to cancer research organizations in protest of a story KrebsOnSecurity published in 2018 that unmasked the creators of Coinhive , a now-defunct cryptocurrency mining service that was massively abused by cybercriminals.

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Information Management Resources

MAY 30, 2019

District judge is overseeing dozens of suits alleging users have no real control over their personal information, and that the company has repeatedly misled users to continue mining it.

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Data Matters

MAY 4, 2021

Many companies hope to benefit from amassing large amounts of data by mining it for market insights, creating internal business models, and supporting strategic, data-driven decisions. Done properly, data de-identification can minimize risks to privacy interests—e.g., litigation discovery obligations. VIEW ARTICLE.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 11, 2022

The blue-sky mission is to bring modern data mining and machine learning technologies to bear delivering personalized services that ameliorate not just physical ailments, but also mental and even emotional ones. Might it be possible to direct cool digital services at holistically improving the wellbeing of each citizen of planet Earth?

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 30, 2020

In 2018, KrebsOnSecurity unmasked the creators of Coinhive — a now-defunct cryptocurrency mining service that was being massively abused by cybercriminals — as the administrators of a popular German language image-hosting forum. ”

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 9, 2023

For example, there were four phone numbers on my Experian credit file: Only one of them was mine, and that one hasn’t been mine for ages. “If somehow I can make small change and help to improve this, inside myself I can feel that I did something that actually matters and helped others.” And thank goodness it did.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 21, 2020

The agencies said crooks use the vished VPN credentials to mine the victim company databases for their customers’ personal information to leverage in other attacks. ” The perpetrators focus on social engineering new hires at the targeted company, and impersonate staff at the target company’s IT helpdesk.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MAY 2, 2020

A shortage of technical experts in EU regulatory authorities means companies can carry on invading our privacy On 25 May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) became law throughout the European Union. It was a gold mine for legal and data-protection consultants.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

One way is through hijacking computer resources to mine cryptocurrencies. Read more about Security Compliance & Data Privacy Regulations. But his latest gig appears to be the most challenging. On November 11, he took the helm at FTX, a massive crypto platform, which has plunged into insolvency.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

In that caper, a core API was left open allowing them to exploit it and begin using Tesla’s servers to mine cryptocurrency. Compliance with existing and fresh data security and privacy rules and regulations is another variable driving companies to start introducing SecOps into their workflow.

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CGI

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

A potential solution for protecting customer privacy when sharing smart meter data. Along with smart meter technology, however, comes some challenges in protecting consumer’s data privacy. Along with smart meter technology, however, comes some challenges in protecting consumer’s data privacy. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. and 501.2).

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 31, 2017

On May 26, 2017, the Belgian Privacy Commission (the “Belgian DPA”) published its Annual Activity Report for 2016 (the “Annual Report”) highlighting its main accomplishments from the past year. This bill is part of the Belgian government’s initiative to fight social fraud by using data mining and data crossing. Cloud computing.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 18, 2021

Aside from its core business competency — checking to make sure the property at issue in any real estate transaction is unencumbered by any liens or other legal claims against it — First American basically has one job: Protect the privacy and security of all these documents. This week, the U.S. First American Financial Corp.

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Data Protection Report

JUNE 27, 2018

In several cases spanning decades, the Court had repeatedly held that individuals do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in records held by third party service providers because individuals voluntarily provide their information to third parties. The Court disagreed with the government and sided with Carpenter.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

18 Central European Time (CET), cyptocurrency mining service NiceHash disccovered that some of the settings for its domain registration records at GoDaddy were changed without authorization, briefly redirecting email and web traffic for the site. 2019 that wasn’t discovered until April 2020. ” In the early morning hours of Nov.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 13, 2019

But say you are more privacy focused and you wanted to follow that link in the original tweet. Or you move to Australia because apparently, we don't deserve the same levels or privacy down here. This is what privacy looks like? It might have been nice to read it! Or run an ad blocker. Or something like a Pi-hole.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 13, 2018

However, these fraudsters don’t really care about snatching up your credentials or mine. By now, your personal information and mine has been hacked multiple times and is readily on sale in the Dark Web. There’s a new breed of identity thief at work plundering consumers and companies. It’s tangible and threat actors are on the move.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 25, 2019

Big data, data breaches, data mining, data science…Today, we’re all about the data. I have spent 30-plus years in the tech and media industries, mainly as a journalist, observer, and founder of companies that either make or support journalism and storytelling. For whatever reason, I did this by founding or co-founding companies.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

This week, bitcoin seems to have gotten the thumbs up for innovation despite some shady origins, lots of background details came out about the circumstances that approved NSA dragnet, and privacy is declared an anomaly. Bitcoin mining operation. And tweet us links! Bitcoins Bitcoins Everywhere – Brad Feld. Spying – NYTimes.

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

As much as I love this one friend of mine, nothing is private when we’re together. So, we can call this a Facebook privacy facepalm legacy attack. It’s a sad state of Facebook privacy news fatigue that the urge is so strong to create privacy fail sub-categories—but there you have it. You probably have a friend like this.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MARCH 21, 2018

But data mining poisons our politics | Gaby Hinsliff At times, Mark Zuckerberg looks like someone who cannot keep up even with himself Continue reading. Facebook has worked tirelessly to gather as much data on users as it could – and to profit from it Big corporate scandals tend not to come completely out of the blue.

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