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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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White House to Regulate Cloud Security: Good Luck With That

| | Biden administration , Biden National Cybersecurity Strategy , Cloud Security , cybersecurity regulation , regulation , SB Blogwatch , White House
Be careful what you wish for: Biden wants new regulations for cloud providers—but we’re not sure it’ll help ...
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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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How Cybersecurity Delays Critical Infrastructure Modernization

| | Critical Infrastructure , Cybersecurity , Data Security , Energy , Utilities , water
Cybersecurity concerns relating to the protection of data are having a significant impact on the modernization (or lack thereof) of critical and public utility infrastructure, with many utility companies failing to adopt ...
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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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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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‘See No Evil’ — Mozilla SLAMS Google’s App Privacy Labels

| | android , Android apps , facebook , google , Google Play Store , Minecraft , Mozilla , Mozilla Foundation , Play Store , Privacy , SB Blogwatch , See no evil , Twitter
Google doesn’t want you to know what your Android apps do with your data. That seems to be the conclusion from a Mozilla study into the Play Store ...
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