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Protestors petition equity firm over .org buyout

January 24, 2020 0 Comments .org, ethos capital, icaan, internet corporation for assigned names and numbers, tld, top level domains

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 11:48:40 +0000

The street outside ICAAN’s offices in Playa Vista, California, is likely a little more crowded than normal.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/zDN1XRuZuFg” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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9th Methbot suspect arrested in massive clickfraud ring

January 24, 2020 0 Comments botnets, click fraud, domain spoofing, Law & order, malvertising, mediamethane, methbot, plexious, sergey denisoff, spoofing

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 10:57:37 +0000

How Sergey Denisoff described his early ad-buying ventures: buying BS popup traffic and reselling it to buyers demanding BS traffic.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/M-uuNM1-C74″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Privacy watchdog throws wider net to protect children online

January 24, 2020 0 Comments age appropriate design code, children, children online, children's privacy, data breach, elizabeth denham, grooming, ico, Information Commissioner's Office, Instagram, Law & order, location data, molly russell, molly russell foundation, PII, predators, Privacy, privacy code, self-harm, social media, Social networks, stalking, suicide, Tracking

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 10:09:18 +0000

A new, comprehensive code will compel online services to put children’s health and safety before data-collecting profits.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/85dspOTlfAY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Looking for silver linings in the CVE-2020-0601 crypto vulnerability

January 23, 2020 0 Comments chain of fools, curveball, cve-2020-0601, Uncategorized

Credit to Author: Chester Wisniewski| Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 13:43:21 +0000

Is there some good news hidden in the story of the CVE-2020-0601 crypto vulnerability?<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/uLFrNZCgCNo” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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UN report alleges that Saudi crown prince hacked Jeff Bezos’s phone

January 23, 2020 0 Comments amazon, Celebrities, crown prince, Hacked, jamal khashoggi, jeff bezos, malware, mbs, mohammed bin salman, pegasus, phone hack, saudi arabia, security threats, whatsapp

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 11:38:10 +0000

Digital forensic evidence points to the phone’s massive, months-long data egress having likely been triggered by Pegasus mobile spyware.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/cudbgBhrFvg” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Apple allegedly made nice with FBI by dropping iCloud encryption plan

January 23, 2020 0 Comments #nobackdoors, Apple, backdoors, backups, Cryptography, data loss, encryption, FBI, icloud, iOS, iPhone, keydrop, Law & order, Mobile, plesio, Privacy, security threats

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 11:05:12 +0000

Sources told Reuters that Apple may have been convinced by arguments made during the legal fight over cracking the San Bernardino iPhone.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/qyltSL5-IRc” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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5 consejos de ciberseguridad en el Día Europeo de la Protección de Datos

January 23, 2020 0 Comments actualidad, consejos, nota de prensa, protección de datos

Credit to Author: Sophos Iberia| Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 10:02:14 +0000

El próximo 28 de enero se celebra el Día Europeo de la Protección de Datos para concienciar a los ciudadanos sobre la importancia de proteger y mantener seguros los datos personales. Tras la entrada en vigor de exigentes legislaciones en materia de datos como el GDPR, continúan siendo muchos los usuarios que no son conscientes […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/l-d3-_AW0S0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Sonos’s tone-deaf legacy product policy angers customers

January 23, 2020 0 Comments cloud service, end-of-life, eol, legacy hardware, security threats, security updates, software updates, sonos

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 10:51:17 +0000

Stopping software updates for legacy kit is nothing new, but it’s the way the company has done it that has Sonos customers’ hackles up.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/4YXp5F5XJZ0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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FBI issues warning about lucrative fake job scams

January 23, 2020 0 Comments employment scam, fake job scams, FBI, IC3, Law & order, security threats

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 10:30:58 +0000

What’s the difference between a real job and a fake one found on the internet? The fake ones are suspiciously easy to get interviews for.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/gAFkIxgbe1k” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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CVE-2020-0601 Q&A

January 22, 2020 0 Comments chain of fools, Corporate, curveball, SophosLabs, SophosLabs Uncut

Credit to Author: Andrew Brandt| Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 00:22:26 +0000

The SophosLabs Offensive Security team answers your questions about the CVE-2020-0601 (aka Chain of Fools and Curveball) vulnerability.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/682tR8CBAA8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>