Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2022 15:40:38 +0000
A URI spoofing flaw affecting popular messaging apps, which include Signal, Instagram, and iMessage, could direct users to potentially malicious destinations.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2022 20:41:07 +0000
This week on Lock and Code, we talk about taking the right steps to removing Google and its many services from your life.
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Read moreCredit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2020 15:00:00 +0000
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| For International Women’s Day, Malwarebytes is measuring the impact of our own campaign to raise awareness and protect users. These are the numbers on stalkerware, monitoring, and spyware apps. Categories: Tags: Bureau of Justice Statisticscenter for disease control and preventionCoalition Against Stalkerwareinternational women’s daymonitormonitoring applicationsmonitoring appsspywarestalkerwarewhatsapp |
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Read moreCredit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 16:37:11 +0000
If you’re running a business online, few things can be as disruptive or destructive to your brand as someone stealing your company’s domain name and doing whatever they wish with it. Even so, most major Web site owners aren’t taking full advantage of the security tools available to protect their domains from being hijacked. Here’s the story of one recent victim who was doing almost everything possible to avoid such a situation and still had a key domain stolen by scammers.
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Credit to Author: Naked Security| Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 15:14:30 +0000
El eslogan de WhatsApp: simple, seguro, mensajería fiable. Anexo necesario de marketing: agujero, actualizar, inmediatamente, vulnerabilidad, MP4. Facebook publicó un aviso de seguridad sobre una vulnerabilidad de desbordamiento de búfer muy peligrosa en WhatsApp, CVE-2019-11931, que podría ser desencadenada por un vídeo MP4 comprometido. Está calificada como una vulnerabilidad de alto riesgo – 7,8 – […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/aIFTlPehi4A” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
Read moreCredit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 15:47:58 +0000
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| Those who install stalkerware with the intent to monitor, control, harass, or otherwise abuse their victims typically get away with it, avoiding legal penalty even if there’s plenty of evidence to suggest their guilt. Categories: Tags: Al FrankenComputer Fraud and Abuse ActcyberstalkcyberstalkingDepartment of JusticeDistrict Attorneydomestic abusedomestic abuse survivordomestic abuse survivorsdomestic violencfbiFederal Wiretap ActFrankenFTCJackie’s LawMobileSpyNational Network to End Domestic ViolenceNNEDVNSO Grouponline harassmentOperation Safe HorizonPhoneSheriffSenator Al FrankenstalkerwarestalkingStealthGenieTeenSafeUS AttorneyUS Federal Trade CommissionwhatsappWiretap |
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Read moreCredit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 16:00:00 +0000
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| Data privacy is back in Congressional lawmakers’ sights, as proposed legislation called the ACCESS Act focuses not on data collection, storage, and selling, but on the idea that Americans should be able to easily pack up their data and take it to a competing service. But will this actually protect privacy? Categories: Tags: ACCESS ActApple PagesBig TechCenter for Democracy and Technologycompetitioncongressdata interoperabilitydata portabilityData privacydata privacy lawsdata privacy legislationElloEuropean UnionfacebookFacebook MessengergdprGeneral Data Protection RegulationGooglegoogle docsInstagraminteroperabilityLinkedInMark ZuckerbergMastodonmessengermicrosoft wordportabilitySenateThe ACCESS ActtwitterUS CongressUS data privacy lawsUS data privacy legislationuser privacywhatsapp |
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Read moreCredit to Author: Prachi Sudame| Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 07:41:18 +0000
The Indian media is abuzz these days with several news and allegations around snooping on several Indian citizens through a spyware named Pegasus, allegedly delivered through WhatsApp. It’s reported widely that Facebook Inc., the parent company of popular messaging app -WhatsApp, reached out to few users from India (and other…
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