U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission – Computer Security Articles

The Global Surveillance Free-for-All in Mobile Ad Data

October 23, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, accuweather, adx, android advertising id, app tracking transparency, apple, Associated Press, bid request, br24, daniel's law, Electronic Frontier Foundation, eva galperin, fog reveal, gasbuddy, google, Grindr, identifier for advertisers, judge andrew f. wilkinson judicial security act, justin sherman, justyna maloney, Latest Warnings, macy's, maid, mobile advertising id, MyFitnessPal, netzpolitik.org, scott maloney, Sen. Ron Wyden, silentpush, tangles, The Coming Storm, troutman pepper, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, webloc, zach edwards

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 11:30:18 +0000

Not long ago, the ability to remotely track someone’s daily movements just by knowing their home address, employer, or place of worship was considered a powerful surveillance tool that should only be in the purview of nation states. But a new lawsuit in a likely constitutional battle over a New Jersey privacy law shows that anyone can now access this capability, thanks to a proliferation of commercial services that hoover up the digital exhaust emitted by widely-used mobile apps and websites.

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Crooks Steal Phone, SMS Records for Nearly All AT&T Customers

July 12, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, advance auto parts, allstate, anheuser-busch, at&t breach, data breaches, FBI, Latest Warnings, los angeles unified, Mitsubishi, neiman marcus, progressive, pure storage, santander bank, snowflake hack, state farm, Techcrunch, ticketmaster, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, wired

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2024 18:12:20 +0000

AT&T Corp. disclosed today that a new data breach has exposed phone call and text message records for roughly 110 million people — nearly all of its customers. AT&T said it delayed disclosing the incident in response to “national security and public safety concerns,” noting that some of the records included data that could be used to determine where a call was made or text message sent. AT&T also acknowledged the customer records were exposed in a cloud database that was protected only by a username and password (no multi-factor authentication needed).

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Hackers Steal Phone, SMS Records for Nearly All AT&T Customers

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2024 18:12:20 +0000

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SEC Investigating Data Leak at First American Financial Corp.

August 12, 2019 admin Ben Shoval, data breaches, First American Financial Corp., The Coming Storm, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 20:30:17 +0000

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating a security failure on the Web site of real estate title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. that exposed more than 885 million personal and financial records tied to mortgage deals going back to 2003, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.