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Adam Levin Discusses Employment Scams on CBS This Morning
Adam Levin was featured on CBS This Morning where he discussed employment scams, in which fictitious companies dupe victims into spending their own money...
Vermont Law Shines Light on Data Brokers
A newly enacted Vermont law offers a glimpse at companies engaged in the compiling and selling of individual user data.
Under H.764 (Act 171), third-party...
TikTok Fined Record Amount for Collecting Children’s Data
The Federal Trade Commission fined the popular social media and video sharing service TikTok a record $5.7 million for illegally collecting the personal data...
ICANN Urges Greater Domain Name Security
The infrastructure at the core of the internet is vulnerable to attack from state-sponsored hackers, its governing body warned.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names...
TurboTax Hit By Credential Stuffing Attack
An undisclosed number of TurboTax customer accounts have been compromised in a credential stuffing attack.
“Based on our investigation,” a notice told affected users,...
Unsecured Database Reveals Scope of Chinese Surveillance
According to a recent report, information from a leaked database revealed the extent to which China is tracking its citizens, particularly its Uyghur and...
“Digital Gangster” Facebook’s Faceplant in the EU and UK Markets
As Brexit looms, the UK and the EU can still agree that Facebook needs to be reined in.
A report published earlier this month...
DHS De-Prioritizes Foreign Interference Ahead of 2020 Elections
A new report revealed that two federal task forces committed to securing the 2020 elections lost resources and personnel--both budgets drastically reduced by the...
Facebook May Be Fined for Billions for Cambridge Analytica Scandal
Facebook’s long string of privacy scandals may (finally) have some meaningful repercussions by way of a multi-billion dollar fine from the Federal Trade Commission....
GAO Recommends Stiffer Penalties for Privacy Violations
The U.S. Federal Government should pass legislation protecting citizens’ privacy online, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office.
The GAO study...
Is Your Business at Risk From ‘Credential Stuffing’ Attacks?
Dailymotion is a Paris-based video-sharing rival of YouTube. The site gets about 300 million unique visitors a month who watch an estimated 3.5 billion videos. While that's...
Phishing Campaign Hits Credit Unions
A phishing campaign targeting credit unions and other financial institutions recently found its way into the email inboxes of anti-money laundering officers.
Credit unions and...
China-Linked APT10 Attacks US, Western Companies
The Chinese government-linked hacking group APT10 is continuing its campaign against US and European businesses with increasingly sophisticated tactics and strategies, warn officials from...
Small Breaches Can Make Big News: How to Protect Your Organization
A recent leak compromised the personal data of all 4,557 active students at the California State Polytechnic University Science School.
This was not a...
North Carolina Data Privacy Law Proposed
North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein and Representative Jason Saine have re-introduced legislation to protect residents of the state against data breaches and identity...
Adam Levin Shares How to Spot a Twitter Bot on AM...
Adam Levin was featured on AM Joy with Joy Reid where he shared tips on how to identify the activities of bots on Twitter....
Can Apple Beat Back the Competition with Privacy?
"What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone." That was the message Apple emblazoned in huge letters on the flank of Springhill Suites Marriot...
Facebook Knowingly Charged Children, Committed “Friendly Fraud”
Facebook knowingly misled children into spending money to play games on its ad platform, according to a set of unsealed court documents reported by...
Facebook App Paid Users for Unfettered Access to their Personal Data
Facebook released an app that paid users for full access to their data.
The Facebook Research app functioned as a VPN (virtual private network) that...
Shodan: Cybersecurity Tool or Hacker’s Yellow Pages?
The recent data leak of the Oklahoma Security Commission that compromised 17 years’ worth of FBI investigations, the NGO leak of 4 million internship...