Proposed Massachusetts law to ban sale of your mobile location data

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A proposed law would ban brokers from selling mobile location data in Massachusetts.

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Strava heatmap loophole may reveal users’ home addresses

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Anonymous data on fitness app Strava’s heatmap may be able to be used to pinpoint users.

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Bring your own privacy: VPNs for consumers and orgs

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2020 17:24:33 +0000

VPNs are all the rage, but they’re not without their problems. Where do you stand on the great “Should we deploy a VPN” debate?

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Hack of Attack-for-Hire Service vDOS Snares New Mexico Man

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 17:00:12 +0000

A New Mexico man is facing federal hacking charges for allegedly using the now defunct attack-for-hire service vDOS to launch damaging digital assaults aimed at knocking his former employer’s Web site offline. Prosecutors were able to bring the case in part because vDOS got massively hacked last year, and its customer database of payments and targets leaked to this author and to the FBI.

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