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TikTok Engaging in Excessive Data Collection
PRIVACY PRIVACY Latest industry whitepaper from Internet 2.0 claims TikTok data harvesting is excessive and uses China based server connection Read More
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A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’
PRIVACY PRIVACY The 911 service as it exists today. For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the…
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Pegasus Spyware Used Against Thailand’s Pro-Democracy Movement
PRIVACY PRIVACY Citizen Lab claim their investigation has revealed an “extensive espionage campaign” targeting pro-democracy protestors and activists Read More
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Facebook Is Now Encrypting Links to Prevent URL Stripping
PRIVACY PRIVACY Some sites, including Facebook, add parameters to the web address for tracking purposes. These parameters have no functionality that is relevant to the user, but sites rely on them to track users across pages and properties. Mozilla introduced support for URL stripping in Firefox 102, which it launched in June 2022. Firefox removes…
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Introducing the CIS Controls OSCAL Repository
PRIVACY PRIVACY CIS has created a more machine-friendly version of the CIS Controls Version 8 document by leveraging the OSCAL Framework. Read More
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Malicious emails sent from 11 hacked SEBI IDs, officials say
PRIVACY PRIVACY The Security and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has filed a first information report (FIR) about a cybersecurity incident on its email system. According to the report, filed last week, the email accounts of 11 officials were hacked by unknown persons. SEBI officials disclosed that the incident took place while the email system…
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Tor Browser Adds Automatic Censorship Circumvention
PRIVACY PRIVACY Tor Project’s latest release promises major feature enhancements Read More
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Auth0’s OpenFGA explained: Open source universal authorization
PRIVACY PRIVACY Auth0’s OpenFGA project is an open source effort that undertakes to provide a universal authentication solution. FGA stands for “Fine Grained Authorization,” a granular approach to authorization modeling that is flexible enough to handle almost any imaginable use case. Read on for an introduction to the OpenFGA project. Authentication vs. authorization Authentication is…
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6 security analyst job description red flags that make hiring harder
PRIVACY PRIVACY Hiring for the role of security analyst—that workhorse of security operations—could get even harder. Demand for the position is expected to grow, with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicting organizations to add tens of thousands of positions through the decade, with employment for security analysts expected to grow by 33% from 2020…
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Broker Fined £2m for Financial Crime Control Failings
PRIVACY PRIVACY TJM Partnership is already in liquidation Read More