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FanDuel gamblers warned of phishing threat after data breach at Mailchimp
PRIVACY PRIVACY The important thing to realise about the most recently-reported data breach at email newsletter service Mailchimp is that it’s not just Mailchimp’s customer data that was put at risk. Even if you’re not personally a customer of Mailchimp, even if you’ve never even heard of Mailchimp, you may be affected. Read More
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Kolide – Endpoint security for people, not paper clips
PRIVACY PRIVACY Graham Cluley Security News is sponsored this week by the folks at Kolide. Thanks to the great team there for their support! You know the old thought experiment about the AI designed to make paper clips, that quickly decides that in order to maximize paper clips, it will have to get rid of…
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No-Fly List Exposed
PRIVACY PRIVACY I can’t remember the last time I thought about the US no-fly list: the list of people so dangerous they should never be allowed to fly on an airplane, yet so innocent that we can’t arrest them. Back when I thought about it a lot, I realized that the TSA’s practice of giving…
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AI and Cybersecurity: Some observational implications of the intersection between the two
PRIVACY PRIVACY There is a possibility that artificial intelligence (AI) will have a significant influence, in either a good or bad direction, on cybersecurity. On the plus side, artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to automate and improve many parts of cybersecurity. AI can find and stop threats, find strange behavior, and look at network…
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Ad Fraud Scheme Tops 12 Billion Daily Bid Requests
PRIVACY PRIVACY Vastflux operation injected obfuscated JavaScript into ads Read More
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Riot Games Halts Work After Cyber-Attack
PRIVACY PRIVACY Compromise impacts developer’s ability to release updates Read More
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The metaverse brings a new breed of threats to challenge privacy and security gatekeepers
PRIVACY PRIVACY The metaverse is coming; businesses and government agencies are already building virtual worlds to support city services, meetings and conferences, community building, and commerce. They’re also rendering spatial apps around travel, car sales, manufacturing, and architecture in what Citi predicts will be a $13-trillion market with 5 billion users by 2030. “Just as…
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New Government Cyber Advice for £100bn UK Charity Sector
PRIVACY PRIVACY NCSC report warns of surging threat to the third sector Read More
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Publisher’s Weekly Review of A Hacker’s Mind
PRIVACY PRIVACY Publisher’s Weekly reviewed A Hacker’s Mind—and it’s a starred review! “Hacking is something that the rich and powerful do, something that reinforces existing power structures,” contends security technologist Schneier (Click Here to Kill Everybody) in this excellent survey of exploitation. Taking a broad understanding of hacking as an “activity allowed by the system…
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Wallarm touts API leak protection with new scanning feature
PRIVACY PRIVACY API security company Wallarm announced Frdiay that it had opened a preview period for its newest offering — an active scanning system that checks through public sources of compromised API data, alerts users, and provides automated responses if a compromise is detected. The API Leak Protection feature, which will be deployed via Wallarm’s…