Fighting Fake EDRs With ‘Credit Ratings’ for Police

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 14:27:35 +0000

When KrebsOnSecurity last month explored how cybercriminals were using hacked email accounts at police departments worldwide to obtain warrantless Emergency Data Requests (EDRs) from social media and technology providers, many security experts called it a fundamentally unfixable problem. But don’t tell that to Matt Donahue, a former FBI agent who recently quit the agency to launch a startup that aims to help tech companies do a better job screening out phony law enforcement data requests — in part by assigning trustworthiness or “credit ratings” to law enforcement authorities worldwide.

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Fake Emergency Search Warrants Draw Scrutiny from Capitol Hill

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2022 22:54:45 +0000

On Tuesday, KrebsOnSecurity warned that hackers increasingly are using compromised government and police department email accounts to obtain sensitive customer data from mobile providers, ISPs and social media companies. Today, one of the U.S. Senate’s most tech-savvy lawmakers said he was troubled by the report and is now asking technology companies and federal agencies for information about the frequency of such schemes.

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Meta blocks Russia-Ukraine disinformation campaigns on Facebook, Instagram

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2022 12:09:35 +0000

Meta says it has detected and removed two disinformation campaigns regarding the current Russia-Ukraine war.

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Facebook sued for siphoning facial recognition data without consent

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 15:12:18 +0000

The suit alleges that Facebook’s now-defunct photo-tagging feature illegally collected data about Texans, including non-Facebook users.

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A week in security (February 7 – February 13)

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 09:46:54 +0000

The most important and interesting security stories from the last seven days.

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Meta blows safety bubble around users after reports of sexual harassment

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2022 16:41:07 +0000

Meta has enabled a security boundary as a default in its virtual realm after reports of sexual harassment.

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