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The World Wide Web allows us to connect to people all over the globe, but you can still put limits around real geographical regions.
Maybe you’ve heard of geolocation, which knows exactly where you are on the map.
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Have you ever gone to post on your favorite social media platform, only for it to suggest that you add where you are logging in from?
Whether you’re checking in to someplace on Facebook, or browsing posts made from a specific location on TikTok or Instagram, you’ve probably come across geotags before—maybe you’ve even used a few!
It may shock you to hear this, then: Geotagging can pose cybersecurity and privacy risks if not properly managed!
How Does Geotagging Risk Your Data Privacy?
Geotagging involves embedding geographical location information (such as latitude and longitude coordinates) into digital media files.
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Law enforcement in Northern Ireland recently woke up to an unfortunate message from their top police officer: More than 10K officers and staff members had had their personally identifiable information (PII) exposed in what their top officer described as a data leakage of “industrial scale.
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Be honest: Have you ever used your cellphone at work when you weren’t supposed to? Brought in your personal laptop to use as an extra screen? Connected a bluetooth speaker to the WiFi for a company party?
There’s actually a name for this.
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There are more than 2B of them around the world.
They’ll make up nearly a third of the workforce by 2030.
Most of them have had access to the internet since before they could talk.
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Have you ever wondered whether our space satellites are safe?
No…not from alien attacks!
Safe from cybercriminal threats.
At the end of the day, satellites are just computers orbiting the Earth, sending and receiving signals from the surface.
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Zero-day attacks…zero-day vulnerabilities…zero-trust security postures…”Zero” seems to be the most popular number in cybersecurity these days!
Hopefully, you’ve at least heard of these terms before.
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Have you ever used ChatGPT? What about any similar artificial intelligence?
AI has gotten extremely popular, but it’s not without its risks: Consider ChatGPT, hailed as a cutting-edge solution but in the news recently for less flattering reasons.
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When 2023 began, student debt across American had reached a staggering $1.78T in total. Individually, people owe just over $37K in federal loans alone.
Are you among the 43M who owe student loan debt? Then you’ve probably heard about the Supreme Court decision on June 30th, striking down President Biden’s attempt to forgive approximately $430B in federal student loan debt.
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Supply chain risk….vendor management…third party cyberattacks…
We have a lot of words for it, but what we’re all talking about comes down to the same thing: Cybercriminals are breaching our systems and other big databases filled with our personal information, by first infiltrating more vulnerable software that we rely on to run daily tasks.
