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Fighting Fake EDRs With ‘Credit Ratings’ for Police

April 27, 2022 admin A Little Sunshine, apple, AT&T, Coinbase, discord, emergency data request, FBI, GitHub, google, kodex, LinkedIn, matt donahue, meta, microsoft, snapchat, T-Mobile, The Coming Storm, TikTok, twilio, Twitter, Verizon, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 14:27:35 +0000

When KrebsOnSecurity last month explored how cybercriminals were using hacked email accounts at police departments worldwide to obtain warrantless Emergency Data Requests (EDRs) from social media and technology providers, many security experts called it a fundamentally unfixable problem. But don’t tell that to Matt Donahue, a former FBI agent who recently quit the agency to launch a startup that aims to help tech companies do a better job screening out phony law enforcement data requests — in part by assigning trustworthiness or “credit ratings” to law enforcement authorities worldwide.

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“Reject All” cookie consent button is coming to European Google Search and YouTube

April 27, 2022 admin "reject all" button, CNIL, commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés, cookie banner, cookie consent banner, google, manipulative cookie consent, privacy, ruhr university bochum, sammit adhya, university of michigan

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 10:39:42 +0000

Soon, all countires in Europe, including the UK and Switzerland, will have the power to accept all and reject all cookies with a single click.

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Rogue ads phishing for cryptocurrency: Are you secure?

April 26, 2022 admin ads, advert, Bing, cryptocurrency, google, organic, paid, phish, phishing, scams, seed, wallet, Yahoo

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2022 12:29:14 +0000

Phishers racked up an enormous haul of stolen cryptocurrency via rogue Google ads. Time to check if you’re free from bad ad worry.

The post Rogue ads phishing for cryptocurrency: Are you secure? appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

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Android 12 Upgrade Report Card: What a weird year

April 5, 2022 admin Android, google, Operating Systems, Productivity Software, samsung electronics, Security, smartphones, software provider

Credit to Author: JR Raphael| Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2022 03:00:00 -0700

In the world of software, six months is an eternity.

Heck, look at how much has happened over the past six months since Android 12 came into the universe. Google started and then finished a hefty 0.1-style update that lays the groundwork for significant large-screen improvements to the Android experience. And it’s now well into the public development phase of its next big Android version, Android 13 — which is the rapidly forming release on most folks’ minds at this point.

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Update Google Chrome to version 100 | Kaspersky official blog

March 31, 2022 admin Browsers, chrome, google, Threats, vulnerabilities

Credit to Author: Editorial Team| Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2022 16:42:08 +0000

Update Chrome! Google patched more than two dozen vulnerabilities, ten of which have high severity rating. One of them is already being exploited by hackers.

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