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British customers of High Street banking brand Natwest are being advised not to use the domain natwest.co.uk - by none other than Natwest itself. Consumers are increasingly becoming aware of threats to their online banking security through malware and malicious apps designed to steal credentials.
According to a team led by vpnMentor researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, NextMotion's compromised database contained sensitive images of thousands of plastic surgery patients, uploaded via its devices and software. These images were often highly sensitive, showing patients' genitalia and other body parts.
Security researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have published a technical paper that describes several security flaws in Voatz, a smartphone app used for limited online voting during the 2018 U.S. midterm elections. In their paper, the MIT researchers note that they were unable to obtain complete information about how Voatz engineers developed the company's voting application, nor were they able to access the full backend of the company's infrastructure to investigate how the app checks and verifies identity.
Puerto Rico's government said Friday that it suspended three employees as federal agents investigate an online scam that attempted to steal more than $4 million from the U.S. territory. Manuel Laboy, executive director of Puerto Rico's Industrial Development Company, said rigorous procedures were not followed when the agency received an email alleging a change in banking accounts that prompted someone to transfer more than $2.6 million to a fraudulent account in the U.S. mainland last month.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., is proposing the creation of a new federal agency dedicated to protecting online privacy, taking that task away from the Federal Trade Commission. In November, two Democratic members of the U.S. House, Anna Eshoo and Zoe Lofgren, proposed similar legislation, The Online Privacy Act, which would create a digital privacy agency that would have the ability to hire up to 1,600 employees and the authority to impose fines for privacy violations.
Valentine's Day will give rise to romance scams, often directed toward people who use dating sites and apps. Victims of such scams sometimes avoid reporting them out of shame, embarrassment, or humiliation, according to the FBI. As such, the criminals can make a clean getaway.
Cyborgs, trolls and bots can fill the internet with lies and half-truths. WAR OF THE BOTS AND CYBORGS. The disposable foot soldiers in this digital conflict are bots.
Those third parties send Facebook information about your activities including things like opening an app on your mobile, logging into it online using your Facebook ID, or even just visiting a site. This piece of Facebook code is known more generically as a web bug, and it logs your activities on any site that embeds it, sending that information back to Facebook.
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UPDATE. Cisco Systems has fixed a high-severity vulnerability in its popular Webex video conferencing platform, which could let strangers barge in on password-protected meetings - no authentication necessary. "The vulnerability is due to unintended meeting information exposure in a specific meeting join flow for mobile applications," Cisco said.