location data

Digital Privateers: How Deepfakes and Data Brokers Threaten Privacy

Deepfake Fraud, Data Brokers Tracking Military Personnel

| | biometrics, Cyber Security, cyber threat, Cybersecurity, Data Brokers, Data Privacy, deepfake, deepfakes, Digital Privacy, Episodes, Fraud, Germany, Information Security, Infosec, Location, location data, military, pirates, Podcast, Podcasts, Privacy, Privateers, Scams, security, Strava, surveillance, technology, Weekly Edition
In Episode 356, Tom and Kevin discuss the increasing role of deepfake technology in bypassing biometric checks, accounting for 24 percent of fraud attempts. The show covers identity fraud issues and explores ...
Shared Security Podcast
The Temu app on a smartphone screen peeking out from a pocket

Temu is Malware — It Sells Your Info, Accuses Ark. AG

| | breach of privacy, china, china espionage, Chinese, Chinese Communists, Chinese cyber espionage, chinese government, customer location, geofencing and location tracking, geolocation, Location, location access permission, location access risks, location data, Location data privacy, location history, location intelligence, location privacy, location services, location sharing location tracking, PDD Holdings, Pinduoduo, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, Temu, Whaleco
Chinese fast-fashion-cum-junk retailer “is a data-theft business.” ...
Security Boulevard
Life360 CEO Chris Hulls

Tile/Life360 Breach: ‘Millions’ of Users’ Data at Risk

| | access management, ASX:360, Chris Hulls, content scraping, data scraping, enumeration, Enumeration Attacks, Ex-Employee Credentials, geofencing and location tracking, geolocation, Identity & Access Management, identity and access management, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Life360, Location, location data, Location data privacy, location finder app, location history, location intelligence, location privacy, location sharing location tracking, preventing possible attempt to enumerate users, SB Blogwatch, scraper, Scrapers, Scraping, Tile, user enumeration
Location tracking service leaks PII, because—incompetence? Seems almost TOO easy ...
Security Boulevard
A T-shirt, reading “You are here”

Apple API Allows Wi-Fi AP Location Tracking

| | Apple, apple bug, customer location, geofencing and location tracking, geolocation, GPS location, Location, location access risks, location data, Location data privacy, location privacy, location services, location sharing location tracking, SB Blogwatch, Skyhook, Starlink, Tibro, Wi-Fi, wi-fi security
Privacy FAIL: Apple location service returns far more data than it should—to people who have no business knowing it—and without your permission ...
Security Boulevard
FCC fines wireless carriers $200 million for sharing user location data!

FCC Fines Wireless Carriers $200 million, Google’s Fight Against Malicious Apps

| | apps, ATT, Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, Digital Privacy, Episodes, fcc, fines, google, Google Play Store, Information Security, Infosec, location data, malicious apps, Mobile, Play Store, Podcast, Podcasts, Privacy, security, T-Mobile, technology, User Location Data, verizon, Weekly Edition, wireless
In episode 328, Tom and Kevin discuss two major cybersecurity and privacy news stories. The first topic covers the FCC issuing fines to major US wireless carriers for sharing users’ real-time location ...
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An old-school telephone, the like of which Millenials have never seen. Also: Get off my lawn.

FCC: Phone Network Bugs Must Be Fixed — But are SS7/Diameter Beyond Repair?

| | Big Telecom, carrier, Carriers, Diameter, digital telecom, fcc, FCC Failures, FCC Follies, FCC privacy rules, Federal Communications Commission, Federal Government, Location, location access risks, location data, Location data privacy, location history, location intelligence, location privacy, location sharing location tracking, location tracking, mobile carrier, mobile carrier vulnerability, Mobile carriers, Mobile Location Tracking, Mobile Tracking, Phone Carrier, RADIUS, roaming, Ron Wyden, SB Blogwatch, Sen. Ron Wyden, Smartphone Location Tracking, ss7, telco, Telecom, Telecom Cybersecurity, Telecom Industry, Telecom Industry Vulnerabilities, telecommunications, Telecommunications Security, telephone, telephones, U.S. Federal Communications Commission, wireless carrier
Fast enough for government work: The Federal Communications Commission is finally minded to do something about decades-old vulnerabilities ...
Security Boulevard
breach, breaches, data, residency, sovereignty, data, breaches, data breaches, NetApp data broker FTC location data

InMarket is Second Data Broker to Settle with FTC This Month

| | Data Brokers, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), location data
For the second time this month, the Federal Trade Commission is banning a data broker from selling or licensing precise location data without getting the consumer’s consent. Under the 14-page FTC order, ...
Security Boulevard
spyware NSO Group

TikTok ‘Will’ Spy on US Citizens — Say Sources

| | Bytedance, CCP, china, China saw how successful Russia was with Facebook, Forbes, GPS, location data, SB Blogwatch, spyware, Tik Tok, TikTok
TikTok parent ByteDance is planning to track the location of certain targeted individuals on U.S. soil, using a specialist Chinese team ...
Security Boulevard
vishing, romance scams generative AI pig butchering

Uvalde Shooting Investigation Reveals Major Privacy Violation

| | breach of privacy, Data Privacy, location data, Mobile Security, Uvalde
In Carpenter v. United States, the Supreme Court noted that, in order for law enforcement officials to obtain location data for cell phones, they needed to have a warrant signed by a ...
Security Boulevard
Florida Water Supply Hack, Android App Hijack, US Capitol Riot Smartphone Tracking

Florida Water Supply Hack, Android App Hijack, US Capitol Riot Phone Tracking

| | ads, android, Cybersecurity, Digital Privacy, Episodes, Florida, Hackers, location data, Podcast, Privacy, security, smartphone, technology, US Capitol Riot, water supply, Weekly Edition
In episode 160: An attacker tried to poison a Florida city’s water supply, a popular Android app was hacked to display malicious ads, and how smartphone location data was used to track ...
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