Cybersafety Sentinel February 2023 Week 1 | Informatica
Weekly Insights from Cybersafety Sentinel
Stay updated with Informatica’s Cybersafety Sentinel’s February 2023 Week 1 edition. This week, we cover critical topics such as data privacy, cyber threats, and effective security strategies. Gain expert insights to enhance your cybersecurity measures and protect your digital assets.
Featured Cybersafety Sentinel Posts
Check out our featured posts below for the latest insights from Cybersafety Sentinel.
Claudiu’s Top Post
Consent grab is easier to spot than people think. Let’s learn by example. Data grifters have learned to swindle their audiences out of mountains of data by hiding in plain sight and using verbose, often contradictory statements in their “privacy policies”. Their hope is to confuse, disarm and hopefully exhaust their reader… and it works most of the time, doesn’t it?
Malware Steals from NFC Cards
The Brazilian threat actors behind an advanced and modular point-of-sale (PoS) malware known as Prilex have reared their head once again with new updates that allow it to block contactless payment transactions. Read More
Chick-fil-A Privacy Lawsuit
Chick-fil-A data collection may have run afoul of federal video privacy law. The law in question is the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), a 1988 regulation. Read More
Home Depot Customer Consent
Home improvement retailer Home Depot didn’t get customer consent before sharing personal data with Meta, which operates social media giants Facebook and Instagram, according to a new report by Canada’s privacy watchdog. Read More
Hackers Abuse Microsoft Verified Publisher
Multiple fraudulent Microsoft Partner Network accounts were discovered to have created harmful OAuth applications with malicious intent, they were specifically designed to steal sensitive information from unsuspecting customers. Read More
New Malware App on Google Play
Web antivirus reported that over 20M devices have recently downloaded a highly successful new category of activity-tracking apps from the Google Play Store. Users on Google Play have reported that Lucky Step, Walking Tracker behaves like adware. Read More
