A recent white paper issued by SocRadar, entitled “Operation DoppelBrand: Weaponizing Fortune 500 Brands for Credential Theft and Remote Access,” provides a stark outline of how a threat actor known as GS7 has been “targeting banking institutions, technology companies, payment platforms, and other entities” with creating fake “highly similar” web portals to harvest customer
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Supreme Court to Hear TikTok Case
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Enforcement + Litigation
The United States Supreme Court announced on December 18, 2024, that it will hear the TikTok ban case and has scheduled oral arguments for January 10, 2025, before the ban’s January 19, 2025 effective date.
The case stems from a bipartisan law signed by President Biden that required ByteDance, the Chinese-based parent of the app…
The AI Executive Order and the Healthcare Industry
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Artificial Intelligence
On October 30, 2023, President Biden issued the “Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence” (AI EO), which has specific impacts on the healthcare industry. We detailed general aspects of the AI EO in a previous blog post.
Some impacts on the healthcare industry have been outlined…
AI and Cybersecurity
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity
There is a lot of chatter out there around the uses of artificial intelligence (AI) for cybersecurity. For example, Applied Sciences published a paper on how AI can be used for mobile malware detection, and Gartner has published on AI Security Management.
According to an article published in Forbes, entitled “A Primer on Artificial Intelligence…
Privacy Tip #346 – Forbes’ Tips to Handle Consumer Privacy Concerns
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Data Privacy, Privacy Tips
I recently ran across a Forbes article that I thought was spot-on, so I am sharing it with our readers. Entitled “5 Tips For How To Handle Consumer Privacy Concerns,” the article astutely points out that “in the age of digital marketing and data collection, you also need to think about consumer privacy concerns and…
Security Researchers Find Biometric Data on 28 Million Records Is Exposed
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Posted in Cybersecurity
It was reported this week by The Guardian and Forbes that security researchers from Vpnmentor have discovered and published a report that Suprema, a company that collects and monitors biometric information such as fingerprints and facial recognition data, has left exposed the biometric information of 28 million records and 23 gigabytes of data insecure.
Suprema…
Privacy Tip #23 – Home security systems vulnerable to hacking
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Posted in Privacy Tips
A Forbes reporter was able to hack into a home alarm system in San Francisco using a browser and “easily-guessable passwords.” The hacking was with permission of the owner but allowed him to make his point—that he could unlock the doors and turn off the alarm while he was sitting in London.
According to the…