Today in Privacy — Oct 12
Posted by PrivacyWire
- Two characters open up a world of typosquatting opportunities in Chromium browsers — Rare Cyrillic and Latin letters can make fake domains look like trusted websites in Chromium browsers, making phishing and credential theft harder to spot.… — discuss · link - Nippon Columbia malware incident exposes 8.6 million karaoke fan records — The malware incident shows how a compromise at a contractor can expose millions of customer and employee records beyond the systems people directly use. It… — discuss · link - Passing the Baton: Dark Reading Names New Editor-in-Chief — Fahmida Y Rashid will keep the momentum going as she leads Dark Reading. — link - Dark Web Empire Market Co-Creator Raheim Hamilton Gets 40 Years in Prison — Raheim Hamilton, co-creator of the dark web marketplace Empire Market, was sentenced to 40 years for a platform… — link Typosquatting in Chromium browsers and the Nippon Columbia malware incident show how easily trust and personal data can be exploited, while the Empire Market sentence highlights the legal consequences of running criminal infrastructure. With new leadership at Dark Reading, what security and privacy risks are you seeing receive too little attention?