InfoSec News Nuggets 9/5/2024

Clearview faces a €30.5 million for violating the GDPR Clearview AI is back in hot — and expensive — water, with the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) fining the company €30.5 million ($33.6 million) for violating the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The release explains that Clearview created "an illegal database with billions of photos of faces," including Dutch individuals, and has failed to properly inform people that it's using their data. In early 2023, Clearview's CEO…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 04/28/2023

Continuous Scanning Is Imperative for Effective Web Application Security Software moves fast. With so many Web applications and APIs being built and modified in increasingly complex IT environments, securing your attack surface — which can change hourly or multiple times a day — is a challenge. Traditional approaches to security, like one-off tests or periodic scans, are no longer enough to get the job done and done well. Attackers are zeroing in on these apps…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 7/2/2020

Creepto Cash: personal data of thousands of users from the UK, Australia, South Africa, the US, Singapore exposed in bitcoin scam Group-IB, a global threat hunting and intelligence company headquartered in Singapore, has discovered thousands of personal records of users from the UK, Australia, South Africa, the US, Singapore, Spain, Malaysia and other countries exposed in a targeted multi-stage bitcoin scam. Victim’s phone numbers, which in most cases came with names and emails, were contained in personalized URLs used to redirect people to websites posing…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 9/02/2019

Another convincing deepfake app goes viral prompting immediate privacy backlash Zao, a free deepfake face-swapping app that’s able to to place your likeness into scenes from hundreds of movies and TV shows after uploading just a single photograph, has gone viral in China. Bloomberg reports that the app was released on Friday, and quickly reached the top of the free charts on the Chinese iOS App Store. And like the FaceApp aging app before it, the creators of Zao are now…
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