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TikTok Abused Kids’ Data — UK Fines it $16 Million

| | Australia , Bytedance , children , Children and smartphones , five eyes , information commissioner's office , SB Blogwatch , TikTok , uk , Won’t somebody think of the children?
$8.50 per child: UK regulator punishes TikTok at 5.5% of revenue. Says app illegally tracked children ...
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Western Digital Hacked: ‘My Cloud’ Data Dead (Even Local Storage!)

| | cloud storage , My Cloud , Ransomware , SB Blogwatch , storage , WD , Western Digital , Western Digital My Cloud
Déjà Vu: Hack of WD systems leads to My Cloud service outage. Owners unable to access files ...
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FINALLY! FCC Acts on SMS Scam-Spam — But Will It Work?

| | Caller ID Spoofing , fcc , Federal Communications Commission , SB Blogwatch , scam , SMS , SMS fraud , SMS messages , SMS phishing , sms scam , SMS scams , SMS Spam , smshing , Spam , STIR/SHAKEN , U.S. Federal Communications Commission
Federal Communications Commission rules to block illegal text messages. What took you so long? ...
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Scams Lost US $10 BILLION in 2022 — Crypto Fraud Grows Fast

| | Call Center Fraud , Crypto , crypto fraud , cryptocurrency , FBI , Fraud , IC3 , Internet Crime Complaint Center , Investment Scams , Phishing , Ransomware , SB Blogwatch , Scams
Ben is disappointed: FBI reports huge rise in cryptocurrency investment scams. Why am I not surprised? ...
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‘Extraordinary, Egregious’ Data Breach at House and Senate

| | Congress , DC Health Link , Health insurance , HIPAA , House of Representatives , pii , Privacy , SB Blogwatch , US Congress , US Senate
Capitol Trouble: Senators, representatives and staffers suffer PII leak. Could it finally kickstart some action? ...
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Ban TikTok, say FBI, CIA, NSA, DNI, GOP, DNC, POTUS (but not ACLU)

| | ACLU , Biden administration , Bytedance , CIA , DATA Act , DNI , FBI , FBI Director Christopher Wray , nsa , RESTRICT Act , SB Blogwatch , senate hearing , TikTok , US Senate , White House
R.E.S.P.E.C.T. RESTRICT: The White House and both sides of the Senate agree that TikTok needs to be stopped—or at least RESTRICT’ed. A bipartisan bill seeks to make that happen ...
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Voice-Clone AI Scams — it’s NOT ME on the Phone, Grandma

| | 419 , 419 scam , AI , Artificial Intelligence , ElevenLabs , Resemble AI , SB Blogwatch , scam , spanish prisoner , voice masquerading
Voice AI tech being misused by scammers: Scrotes fake your voice and call your grandparents. Then “you” beg them for money ...
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Microsoft FAIL: ‘BlackLotus’ Bootkit Breaks Secure Boot

| | BlackLotus , bootkit , Malware , Microsoft , secure boot , trojan , UEFI
The BlackLotus malware targets UEFI Secure Boot. For a mere $5000, you too can own it ...
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US Marshals Ransomware Hack is ‘Major Incident’

| | Data leak , DevSecOps in Government , Federal Government , government , government compliance , government cyber attacks , government data leak , Ransomware , SB Blogwatch , U.S. Marshals , USMS
The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) has been hacked (again). Scrotes stole sensitive stuff (supposedly) ...
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Surprise! US DoD Server Had no Password — 3TB of Sensitive Data Leaked

| | azure , Azure cloud , Azure Government Cloud , defense department , Department of Defense , DoD , email , Microsoft , Microsoft Azure , Microsoft Azure Security , pentagon , SB Blogwatch , U.S. Department of Defense , United States Department of Defense , US DOD , USSOCOM
Sensitive military data found on unprotected Microsoft Azure server. Defense Department email store left insecure for at least 11 days ...
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