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The United States Federal Communications Commission, more commonly known as the FCC, is trying to patent what they call the U.S. Cyber Trust Mark. It will go along with their “cybersecurity labeling program.
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There are all kinds of applications that you can, and might already have, installed on whatever device you’re reading this on!
If it’s a laptop or desktop computer, you might have programs like Microsoft Office, Spotify, Slack, and even games like Minecraft or the Sims.
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Google is headed to court again, this time embroiled a class action lawsuit that alleges Google misled Chrome users into believing that their Incognito searches were safe from the company’s infamous web tracking software.
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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.
