The “Do Not Call Registry” receives a lot of hate online for failing to do its job: Stop calls. “What’s the point of being on the Do Not Call list?” wrote one user on Reddit who shared a screenshot of ten declined phone calls received across one week. Though already registered with the Do Not […]
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Our remote team recently took a trip to our Estonian office. When we arrived from our various destinations, we started chatting about how our travel had been. Our senior privacy advocate, David Ruiz, mentioned that he’d opted out of facial recognition while at San Francisco International Airport. However, not everyone on the team knew this
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Hundreds of data brokers haven’t registered with state consumer protection agencies, according to The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (PRC). There are different kinds of data brokers, but what they all have in common is that they gather personally identifiable information (PII) from publicly available data, datasets stolen in cybercrimes, and other places.
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Every so often the sextortion emails that start with “Hello pervert” get a redesign. You may have received one yourself: The emails claim that the sender has been watching your online behavior and caught you red-handed doing activities that you would like to keep private. The email usually starts with “Hello pervert” and then goes
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If you have internet-connected cameras in or around your home, be sure to check their settings. Researchers just discovered 40,000 of them serving up images of homes and businesses to the internet. Bitsight’s TRACE research team revealed the issue in a report released this month. The cameras were providing the images without any kind of
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Russian hackers have bypassed Google’s multi-factor authentication (MFA) in Gmail to pull off targeted attacks, according to security researchers at Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG). The hackers pulled this off by posing as US Department of State officials in advanced social engineering attacks, building a rapport with the target and then persuading them into creating
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Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: The data on denying social media for kids (re-air) (Lock and Code S06E12) Reddit’s new AI-powered tools scan your posts to serve you better ads Smart air fryers ordered to stop invading our digital privacy WhatsApp to start targeting you with ads Scammers hijack websites of Bank of America, Netflix,
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When organizations, good or bad, start hoarding collections of login credentials the numbers quickly add up. Take the 184 million logins for social media accounts we reported about recently. Now try to imagine 16 billion! Researchers at Cybernews have discovered 30 exposed datasets containing from several millions to over 3.5 billion records each. In total,
Toy company Mattel has announced a deal with OpenAI to create AI-powered toys, but digital rights advocates have urged caution. In a press release last week, the owner of the Barbie brand signed a “strategic collaboration” with the AI company, which owns ChatGPT. “By using OpenAI’s technology, Mattel will bring the magic of AI to
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Ads on Instagram—including deepfake videos—are impersonating trusted financial institutions like Bank of Montreal (BMO) and EQ Bank (Equitable Bank) in order to scam people, according to BleepingComputer. There are some variations in how the scammers approach this. Some use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to create deepfake videos aimed at gathering personal information, while others link to
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