Meta subsidiaries must pay $14m over misleading data collection disclosure

Categories: Business

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We take a look at reports that Meta subsidiaries have been ordered to pay a sizeable fine relating to disclosure issues for a now discontinued VPN.

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Fake tractor fraudsters plague online transactions

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Tags: Tractors

Tags: Australia

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We take a look at reports of the agriculture sector increasingly running into fake online adverts for tractors, at great cost to unfortunate buyers.

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The Quad commits to strengthening cybersecurity in software, supply chains

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 30 May 2022 14:50:56 +0000

Australia, India, Japan, and the US recently met to discuss pressing matters in the Info-Pacific, including cybersecurity.

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Google forced to reveal anonymous reviewer’s details

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 12:02:28 +0000

A court has forced Google to reveal the details of an anonymous poster who published an unpalatable review of a dentist.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/d4sEoG9Kawk” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Cybercrooks busted for multimillion-dollar identity fraud

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2020 11:21:30 +0000

Organizations were attacked for employees’ data, including names, addresses and birthdates used to set up hundreds of bank accounts.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/fdxyW-Y19KM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Financial tech firms disagree on ban of customer data screen-scraping

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 12:05:49 +0000

They use it to offer things like budgeting apps. It puts passwords and privacy at risk, but some say they can’t afford to build APIs instead.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/p33_Z7ZunMU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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China and US top user data requests in Apple transparency report

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 11:53:00 +0000

Most of the US and China’s requests had to do with investigations into fraud, suspected account access and phishing.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/AMKPqWhR4n0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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IoT bills and guidelines: a global response

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 16:27:47 +0000

IoT laws and guidelines abound, as we take a look what’s happening around the world in the name of securing Internet-connected devices.

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350+ hackers hunt down missing people in first such hackathon

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 10:42:33 +0000

Organizers said 100 leads were generated every 10 minutes by contestants using OSINT – open-source intelligence such as online searches.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/ciYe6y5KRMc” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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