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Battle with Bots Prompts Mass Purge of Amazon, Apple Employee Accounts on LinkedIn

October 20, 2022 admin A Little Sunshine, Amazon, anastacia brown, apple, binance, employment fraud, indeed, jay pinho, LinkedIn, Mandiant, Nicholas Weaver, signalhire, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 17:07:34 +0000

On October 10, 2022, there were 576,562 LinkedIn accounts that listed their current employer as Apple Inc. The next day, half of those profiles no longer existed. A similarly dramatic drop in the number of LinkedIn profiles claiming employment at Amazon comes as LinkedIn is struggling to combat a significant uptick in the creation of fake employee accounts that pair AI-generated profile photos with text lifted from legitimate users.

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Ring shares data with police without consent (but it’s in good faith), says Amazon

July 20, 2022 admin Amazon, amazon law enforcement request tracker, brendan daley, eff, Electronic Frontier Foundation, matthew guariglia, neighbors public safety service, npss, privacy, ring, senator edward markey (d-mass.)

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 12:12:11 +0000

Amazon’s Ring is in hot water after revealing in a letter to Senator Ed Markey that it shared data without permission 11 times this year.

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Amazon Photos vulnerability could have given attackers access to user files and data

June 30, 2022 admin Amazon, amazon drive, amazon photos app, amazon photos app for android, Android, checkmzrx, erez yalon, Exploits and vulnerabilities

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 15:25:24 +0000

The retail giant patched a serious flaw in its Amazon Photos app that left user access token exposed to potential attackers.

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De-Googling Carey Parker’s (and your) life: Lock and Code S03E06

March 14, 2022 admin Amazon, Amazon Web Services, Android, apple, big tech, Chromebook, Data Privacy, de-google, de-googling, Facebook, google, Google Chrome, instagram, iPhone, kashmir hill, LinkedIn, lock and code, microsoft, podcast, privacy focused, privacy forward, teams, WhatsApp, windows

Credit 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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Securitas breached, 3TB of airport employee records exposed

February 7, 2022 admin aeropuerto internacional jorge chávez, airline breach, airline industry, alfonso bonilla aragón international airport, Amazon, AWS, el dorado international airport, josé maría córdova international airport, leaky bnucket, privacy, safetydetectives, securitas, securitas breach

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2022 11:42:35 +0000

Securitas, a multinational security services company, left its Amazon S3 buckets open, compromising more than a million files.

Categories: Privacy

Tags: Aeropuerto Internacional Jorge Chávez airline breach airline industry Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport amazon aws El Dorado International Airport José María Córdova International Airport leaky bnucket SafetyDetectives Securitas Securitas breach

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How Phishers Are Slinking Their Links Into LinkedIn

February 3, 2022 admin A Little Sunshine, Amazon, avanan, Check Point, fortinet, irs, jeremy fuchs, Latest Warnings, LinkedIn, microsoft, Paypal, slinks, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2022 18:49:38 +0000

If you received a link to LinkedIn.com via email, SMS or instant message, would you click it? Spammers, phishers and other ne’er-do-wells are hoping you will, because they’ve long taken advantage of a marketing feature on the business networking site which lets them create a LinkedIn.com link that bounces your browser to other websites, such as phishing pages that mimic top online brands (but chiefly Linkedin’s parent firm Microsoft).

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Senate Committee passes new antitrust bill aimed at Big Tech companies

February 2, 2022 admin aicoa, Amazon, american innovation and choice act, Amy Klobuchar, antitrust bill, antitrust law, apple, chuck grassley, david cicilline, google, Security world

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 17:14:15 +0000

A highly criticized new antitrust bill is on its way to the full Senate after a Senate committee approved it.

Categories: Security world

Tags: AICOA amazon American Innovation and Choice Act Amy Klobuchar antitrust bill antitrust law Apple Chuck Grassley David Cicilline Google

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Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 124

January 8, 2020 admin Amazon, Facebook, FBI, news, podcast, ring

Credit to Author: Jeffrey Esposito| Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 16:52:56 +0000

On this podcast, Dave and Jeff discuss the changes to Ring’s dashboard, the FBI seeking help unlocking an iPhone, Travelex hit with ransomware, and more.