Collaborate Disseminate
The attack is targeting financial regulators and embassy staff– but probably isn’t the work of an APT. Continue reading Evil TeamViewer Attacks Under the Guise of the U.S. State Department
They said Facebook emphasizes the service being free, not that it’s making big bucks off users’ data. They ordered the company to apologize. Continue reading Facebook fined $11m for misleading users about how data will be used
In the fast growing cybersecurity insurance market, underwriters face a uniquely complex problem — measuring or estimating the risk their policy-holders face from cybercrooks, online spies and other hackers. The insurance industry “doesn’t have … a set of baseline tools or metrics … to quantify their customers’ risks,” Anand Paturi, vice president of security research and engineering at RiskSense told CyberScoop. In life insurance for instance, depending on the value of the policy, risk might be measured by reference to actuarial tables which predict life expectancy, or by a medical examination measuring a wide range of physical risk factors. “That [risk] data is how you set the price of the policy,” he explained. But, in a presentation Monday to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners 2017 National Meeting, Paturi argued that the question is much more complicated in cybersecurity. He gave as an example the potentially massive losses from the WannaCry and Petya outbreaks earlier this year. In […]
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The FCC slaps Verizon on the wrist for using invasive “supercookies,” but a loophole will allow its mission to monetize paying customers will continue. Continue reading Verizon Is Still Tracking Customers Across the Web Without Consent
The company will now have to alert customers before sharing the data collected from “supercookie” trackers. Continue reading Verizon Settles With FCC for $1.35 Million Over Use of Supercookies