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Senate Committee passes new antitrust bill aimed at Big Tech companies

February 2, 2022 0 Comments aicoa, amazon, american innovation and choice act, amy klobuchar, antitrust bill, antitrust law, Apple, chuck grassley, david cicilline, Google, security world

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 17:14:15 +0000

A highly criticized new antitrust bill is on its way to the full Senate after a Senate committee approved it.

Categories: Security world

Tags: AICOA amazon American Innovation and Choice Act Amy Klobuchar antitrust bill antitrust law Apple Chuck Grassley David Cicilline Google

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Google sued over deceptive location tracking

February 2, 2022 0 Comments Attorney General, dark patterns, district of columbia attorney general, google lawsuits, indiana attorney general, jonathan mayer, location tracking, Privacy, texas attorney general, washington attorney general

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 14:21:52 +0000

Google finds itself at the center of a privacy related lawsuit on location tracking.

Categories: Privacy

Tags: Attorney General dark patterns District of Columbia Attorney General Google lawsuits Indiana Attorney General Jonathan Mayer location tracking privacy Texas Attorney General Washington Attorney General

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Child identity theft, part 2: How to reclaim your child’s identity

March 17, 2020 0 Comments Awareness, child identity fraud, child identity theft, familiar fraud, identity compromise, identity fraud, identity theft, new account fraud, personally identifiable information, reclaim child identity, reclaim identity

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 16:33:29 +0000

In part 2 of our series on child identity theft, we examine the signs their PII might be compromised and how to reclaim your child’s identity if it is. We also list ways to protect their data and ID in the future.

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Tags: child identity fraud child identity theft familiar fraud identity compromise identity fraud identity theft new account fraud personally identifiable information reclaim child identity reclaim identity

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Lock and Code S1Ep2: On the challenges of managed service providers

March 17, 2020 0 Comments BEC, conficker, coronavirus, fingerprint files, msp, phishing scam, play protect, Podcast, remote, skimmer, smbv3, spear phishing

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:28:35 +0000

On episode 2 of Lock and Code, we discuss the latest security news, including how to secure remote workers, security conferences cancelled because of coronavirus, and Google Play’s poor performance on stopping malware. Plus, we speak to two MSP representatives on the daily challenges of managing thousands of endpoints.

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Tags: bec conficker coronavirus fingerprint files MSP phishing scam play protect remote skimmer smbv3 spear phishing

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APT36 jumps on the coronavirus bandwagon, delivers Crimson RAT

March 17, 2020 0 Comments APT, apt36, coronavirus, coronavirus malware, covid-19, credential stealer, crimson rat, Exploit, exploits, info-stealer, macro, malicious macro, malware, nation-state attack, rat, remote administration tool, Social engineering, spear phishing, spear phishing attack, Threat analysis, transparent tribe

Credit to Author: Threat Intelligence Team| Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:00:00 +0000

We look at a spear phishing attack from APT36, an Advanced Persistent Threat group posing as the government of India and offering guidance on coronavirus. Instead, users are infected with a Crimson RAT that steals data.

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Tags: APT APT36 coronavirus coronavirus malware covid-19 credential stealer crimson rat exploit exploits info-stealer macro malicious macro malware nation-state attack rat remote administration tool Social Engineering spear phishing spear phishing attack transparent tribe

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The effects of climate change on cybersecurity

March 17, 2020 0 Comments Awareness, climate change, cooling, cybersecurity, datacenters, energy consumption, Global Warming, supercomputers

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 18:55:13 +0000

We explore the relationship between climate change and cybersecurity, two of the major issues of our time. Does cybersecurity actually contribute to global warming? Or can climate change illicit an uptick in cybercrime? We take a look.

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Tags: climate change cooling cybersecurity datacenters energy consumption global warming supercomputers

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Coronavirus impacts security conferences and events: check your schedule

March 17, 2020 0 Comments Black Hat, bsides, cancellations, Conferences, coronavirus, DEF CON, disruption, events, infosec, rsa, rsa conference, security conference, security conferences, security event, security world

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:02:04 +0000

We look at upcoming cancellations, postponements, and moves to virtual for security conferences in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Tags: black hat bsides cancellations conferences coronavirus DEF CON disruption events infosec RSA RSA Conference security conference security conferences security event

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RemoteSec: achieving on-prem security levels with cloud-based remote teams

March 17, 2020 0 Comments Business, cloud infrastructure, Cloud Security, cloud services, remote security, remote work, remote workers, remote working, remotesec, telecommuting, v2 cloud, workforce

Credit to Author: Dan Macharia| Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 16:53:43 +0000

Times are quickly changing and many teams are scrambling to embrace a shift to remote work. How will security protocols change? Time to move from on-prem to RemoteSec.

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