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Data Privacy Week is a reminder to protect your data – all year round. Here are three privacy-boosting habits you can start today. Every action we  take on the internet generates data that is shared with online services and other parties. It stands to reason, then, that we need to assert control over how much and what kind of personal information we hand over to online services and generally limit the amount of our data…

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Sandworm continues to conduct attacks against carefully chosen targets in the war-torn country ESET researchers have uncovered a new wiper attack in Ukraine that they attribute to the Sandworm APT group. Dubbed SwiftSlicer, the destructive malware was spotted on the network of a targeted organization on January 25th. It was deployed through Group Policy, which suggests that the attackers had taken control of the victim’s Active Directory environment. Some of the wipers spotted by ESET in…

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by Naked Security writer Six months ago, according to the US Department of Justice (DOJ), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) infiltrated the Hive ransomware gang and started “stealing back” the decryption keys for victims whose files had been scrambled. As you are almost certainly, and sadly, aware, ransomware attacks these days typically involve two associated groups of cybercriminals. These groups often “know” each other only by nicknames, and “meet” only online, using anonymity tools…

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The data trail you leave behind whenever you’re online is bigger – and more revealing – than you may think “The lampposts are listening to me; I am sure that the adverts I see online are from a conversation I had walking down the street.” Yes, someone I know claims this is happening to them. If you are in some way related to the cybersecurity and/or privacy industries, then you will have heard similar claims,…

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by Paul Ducklin BREACHES, PATCHES, LEAKS AND TWEAKS Latest epidode – listen now. Click-and-drag on the soundwaves below to skip to any point. You can also listen directly on Soundcloud. With Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin Intro and outro music by Edith Mudge. You can listen to us on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher and anywhere that good podcasts are found. Or just drop the URL of our RSS feed into your favourite…

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by Paul Ducklin The Public Prosecution Service in the Netherlands [Dutch: Openbaar Ministerie] has just released information about an unnamed suspect arrested back in December 2022 for allegedly stealing and selling personal data about tens of millions of people. The victims are said to live in countries as far apart as Austria, China, Columbia, the Netherlands itself, Thailand and the UK. Apparently, the courts have taken a strict approach to this case, effectively keeping the…

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Looking for an alternative to Twitter and thinking about joining the folks flocking to Mastodon? Here’s how the two platforms compare to each other. From restructuring their workforces to facing big fines, big tech companies have been on a roller coaster ride recently – but certainly none quite as much as Twitter. Indeed, Twitter has entered a whole new era since Elon Musk became the company’s owner and CEO last October, and you can bet…

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