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Facebook sues data analytics firm OneAudience over malicious SDK

March 2, 2020 0 Comments advertising, Android, data analytics, data loss, data slurping, facebook, grabby apps, iOS, Law & order, lawsuit, malicious sdks, Marketing, mobiburn, Mobile, mobile marketing, one audience, oneaudience, Privacy, profile slurping, profiles, rogue sdks, sdk, sdks, security threats, Social networks, software development kit, third party apps, twitter

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 11:52:59 +0000

Facebook says OneAudience paid developers to install its social-media-profile-looting SDK into their apps to get marketing data for clients.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/cTLgFQQq3iM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Sophos opens new chapter with take-private acquisition

March 2, 2020 0 Comments Corporate, sophos, thoma bravo

Credit to Author: Kris Hagerman| Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 09:13:27 +0000

Accelerating the next-gen transition to deliver enhanced cybersecurity solutions for our customers<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/PfQuj_7a1OA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Sophos wins big in February

February 28, 2020 0 Comments Awards, channel futures, channel influencer awards, Corporate, crn, crn channel chiefs, crn coolest cloud companies, reseller choice awards

Credit to Author: Matthew Phillion| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 18:00:56 +0000

Sophos cleaned up on the awards front in February – find out which awards and accolades we took home this month.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/C2oRaaDL5vY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Clearview AI loses entire database of faceprint-buying clients to hackers

February 28, 2020 0 Comments AI, Artificial intelligence, biometric information privacy act, biometrics, BIPA, clearview ai, data loss, data scraping, faceprints, facial recognition, hoan ton-that, Law & order, law enforcement, Privacy, security threats

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 12:08:19 +0000

Time to worry about how well the facial recognition startup protects its 3b+ database of faceprints scraped from our social media accounts?<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/UEh1lsdY7KE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Ransomware wipes evidence, lets suspected drug dealers walk free

February 28, 2020 0 Comments deleted evidence, drug dealer, Florida, Law & order, malware, Ransomware, security threats, stuart

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 12:04:27 +0000

Six alleged drug criminals will go free thanks to a ransomware attack on a small Florida city, it was revealed this month.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/-YH21vT56Rs” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Firefox rolling out DNS-over-HTTPS privacy by default in the US

February 28, 2020 0 Comments chrome, Cloudflare DNS, DNS-over-HTTPS, firefox, Google, Google Chrome, https, Mozilla, mozilla firefox, Privacy, Web Browsers

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 11:31:00 +0000

Mozilla has said it plans to make a privacy technology called DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) the default setting for US users of Firefox within weeks.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/U2NXSe69Ao0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Google has right to censor conservative nonprofit on YouTube

February 28, 2020 0 Comments appeal, censorship, conservative, dennis prager, false advertising, first amendment, Google, gun rights, islam, Law & order, nonprofit, political bias, prager university, prageru, private forum, restricted mode, state actors, terrorism, youtube

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 10:44:18 +0000

It’s not a “state actor”, so isn’t subject to 1st Amendment scrutiny and can censor PragerU’s videos on abortion, gun rights and terrorism.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/OVLHTQuoTUc” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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How one man could have flooded your phone with Microsoft spam

February 27, 2020 0 Comments epifiano, Microsoft, SMS, Spam, vulnerability

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 15:17:26 +0000

What a difference one tiny little character can make to a phone number.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/SwdrGrXbCJw” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Slickwraps data breach earns scorn for all

February 27, 2020 0 Comments breach, data breach, data hack, data leak, data loss, exposed data, Hacker, lynx0x00, Privacy, security threats, slickwraps, vinyl skins, vulnerability

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 14:47:39 +0000

The breach earned derision from both the hacker and observers after another hacker exploited the company’s vulnerable setup.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/MqNwwvLAhW0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>