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You have a twin – a “digital” twin. It does everything you do. The same way you exercise your body to stay fit, or brush your teeth to prevent long-term decay and problems, your digital twin needs care so that it does not become a problem in the future. Get to know this twin and you can manage it, secure it and protect it. Here is how to do this.
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The Wall Street Journal did an interesting piece looking at Google, privacy and the extent of their knowledge (as well as other entities like Facebook). I suggest you read it for the details. The following image gives some insight into just how much Google has on one WSJ reporter.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT On this Data Privacy Day 2017, I thought I would review what Google, Apple, Facebook and others know about me. Unfortunately, it looks like this information is difficult to find and pretty much the only data we can find is from Google. So, let's assume Apple, Facebook, twitter, and others know as much if not more. Google tools that will show you what they know about you:
Other articles about those tools:
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Online tracking is no longer about "cookies." New technology helps trackers link online breadcrumbs — including across devices — through browser settings, battery levels and other details.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT We are being tracked everywhere as I reported in a previous article about behavioral tracking: http://fmcs.digital/blog/behavioral-tracking-explained-in-9min-video-by-gary_kovacs-via-ted-mustsee-privacyaware-dataprivacyday/ This new tracking method is very clever as it uses your browser configuration settings to derive an almost unique fingerprint to track you everywhere, even in the absence of cookies or ad beacons on a web page. On this Data Privacy day 2017, be aware, and be careful.
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Data Privacy Day Reminds Organizations That Protecting Customers’ Privacy is Critical to Their Business
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If you only do one thing here is what you should be doing:
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Worried about new ransomware attacks infecting your systems? Learn how ransomware works + get tips to block ransomware and deal with ransomware recovery.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Amazing reference concerning ransomware: what they are, trends, recommendations, etc. Very well done, very useful.
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Just about anyone who's online is in some way interacting with a Google product. Here's how Google tracks you -- and what you can do about it. Via Peter Azzopardi
Farid Mheir's insight:
A good overview.
Marcin Golczak 's curator insight,
December 21, 2019 11:53 AM
Prywatność i bezpieczeństwo danych (Yahoo!, Evernote, a Rosja, patrzymy na Ciebie) obejmuje się jako wielki temat na nadchodzący rok, więc myślimy
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Tens of thousands of personal and possibly proprietary databases that were left accessible to the public online have just been wiped from the Internet, replaced with ransom notes demanding payment for the return of the files. Adding insult to injury, it appears that virtually none of the victims who have paid the ransom have gotten their files back because multiple fraudsters are now wise to the extortion attempts and are competing to replace each other's ransom notes.
Farid Mheir's insight:
A very good review of a database ransom hacks that target mongoDB databases with a link to another very interesting article on the immutable truths about data breaches. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/01/krebss-immutable-truths-about-data-breaches/
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A world beyond passwords is possible--technology is on the verge of rendering passwords obsolete, bolstering security as well as making users and customers happier.
Farid Mheir's insight:
A very good overview of the limitations of passwords and the many new mechanisms that exist to protect your digital assets.
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Training materials obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center show Palantir plays a role in a far-reaching customs system
Farid Mheir's insight:
Just follow the link to the 2012 report and find out what it means to cross reference different digital databases.
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Our lives are digital and we leave digital exhaust behind us everywhere we go. This paper shows what the US government uses to put together a composite picture of your digital twin. For now, they plan to use this for border crossing but in the future - 10 or 20 years down the road - what will this info be used for? Also, knowing that military and very advanced technology always makes it into the corporate world, how will this be used by corporations?
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Floodwatch is a Chrome extension that tracks the ads you see as you browse the internet. It offers tools to help you understand both the volume and the types of ads you’re being served during the course of normal browsing, with the goal of increasing awareness of how advertisers track your browsing behavior, build their version of your online identity, and target their ads to you as an individual. We want to assemble the largest amount of advertising data we can— and then not give it to the advertisers.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Knowing what information is captured about you, stored and the digital profiles that is created behind the scenes as you browse the web is a first step in regaining control over our digital twin so we can have better digital lives.
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We visited the Glass Room exhibit in New York City -- and now we're more paranoid about digital surveillance than ever.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Go through the slides to understand the different information and dimensions that are being gathered about you in the digital world to create a digital profile or a digital twin of yourself.
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Why #AdBlockers May be as Bad as the #Ads they are blocking: they need to make $$ using ads+tracking
For publishers and advertisers, Internet ad blockers are a scourge. But the blockers also have to pay the bills.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Surveillance is part of the web browsing experience mostly due to ads and social beacons. Trying to block them off not only degrades the user experience but may not provide the expected benefits as it may provide a different type of surveillance. Ad blocking does not appear to be the solution after all. So what can provide more privacy when surfing the web? The question remains open.
Jean-Marie Grange's comment,
December 20, 2016 1:12 PM
Maybe one solution would be for content publishers to offer the choice of paying a fair amount for ad-free content... http://sco.lt/7CrAVl
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Like many, I was surprised and shocked by the election of Donald Trump as president. I believe his ideas, temperament, and inexperience represent a grave threat to our country and world. Suddenly, all the things I had planned to work on seemed trivial in comparison. Although Internet security and privacy are not the most important policy areas at risk, I believe he -- and, more importantly, his cabinet, administration, and Congress -- will have devastating effects in that area, both in the US and around the world. I spent the last month both coming to terms with this reality, and thinking about the future. Here is my new agenda for the next four years.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Author is a leader in the security and privacy world, and it is always important to know what leading minds believe is happening or may happen in the future. He painted a fairly bleak picture of the security and privacy in his book - which I recommend strongly. Here he suggests that security and privacy will suffer in a Trump presidency. I would argue this would be the same under Clinton but agree that we must remain vigilant. The large number of comments also provide very interesting insight: anyone that raises concerns about large scale surveillance will get raided by many.
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For the past five years, Russia’s been building walls around its web and packing it with tech oligarchs, startup cities, face-finding algorithms, hacker hunters, and, of course, a few bears.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Hello World is an amazing series of video reports on digital transformations and Internet and technology. I find this episode on Russia of particular interest regarding privacy - or the loss of privacy. Must listen.
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The practical appeal of an RFID implant, in theory, is quick authentication that’s faster, cheaper and more reliable than other biometrics like thumbprints or facial scans. When the chip is hit with a radio frequency signal, it emits a unique identifier number that functions like a long, unguessable password. Implantees like Andrew imagine the ability to unclutter their pockets of keys and keycards and instead access their cars, computers, and homes with with a mere wave of the hand.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Recent announcements of fully automated, no cash register no lineups Amazon stores, have made the use of RFID chips and other digital identification techniques the topic of discussion again.
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Digital transformation requires bridging the physical world with the digital one. One of the simplest way to do so is to attached radio frequency beacons (RFID chips) to products so that you can detect their presence and make inventory management and checkout faster, easier and more accurate. Pushing this idea forward of course means that humans too should be tagged to help identify them in the digital world. Not only does this open a see of useful application - unlocking doors without a key, tracking location inside a building, removing the need for password - it also raises concerns about privacy and identity management. Fun times ahead!
Retail location tagging: http://sco.lt/6yVDqz Décathlon connected products and self checkout: http://www.force-ouvriere.fr/chez-decathlon-85-des-produits-sont-connectes?lang=fr
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Onfido delivers next-generation background checks, helping the world’s most innovative businesses verify anyone, anywhere.
Farid Mheir's insight:
AI and Big Data are being applied to identity verification by a startup that has received 25M in funding and is poaching employees from Google.
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT AI and other techniques will provide enhance capabilities to deter theft and privacy violations. They will become essential tools in digital transformation of businesses. For example, UBER is using Onfido to verify that people are who they claim they are, thus making their service better able to curb credit card theft, and protect drivers by ensuring their passengers can be tracked is they behave inappropriately.
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I’m sure you’ll have noticed in the last few years of using smart phones that every time you add a new app, no matter what that app is for, it asks if it can “use your location”. Sure, you get a chance to allow or not, but how many of us just click that allow button without thinking what information that simple choice conveys?
Farid Mheir's insight:
Location services on mobile phone can reveal information you may not want others to know. This post describes in simple term what geolocation can reveal.
Comunipedia 3.0 's curator insight,
December 9, 2016 3:05 PM
¿Qué podemos hacer si no queremos que quede reflejada nuestra localización?
Brand Interactive Communications's curator insight,
December 11, 2016 6:56 PM
Location services on mobile phone can reveal information you may not want others to know. This post describes in simple term what geolocation can reveal.
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The internet can be horrible, and it isn't weird to sometimes feel like you want to leave. But there's wasn't an easy way out, until now.
Farid Mheir's insight:
The web never forgets. This new site offers ways to remove some traces of your digital life. Useful.
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WIRED guest editor President Barack Obama, WIRED editor in chief Scott Dadich and MIT Media Lab director Joi to discuss the challenges of cyber security
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Amazing short 12min video because of the level of understanding that the President of the USA has of the threats that come from AI and other digital means. He has been briefed of course but his discourse and examples shows that these are very important topics on top of mind for him and his administration. Moreover, it raises some concerns on our ability to fight against those threats and the impact they can have on countries and businesses alike. Must listen video IMHO.
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A #hacker event demonstrates how easy it is to obtain sensitive information using #socialEngineering
The Social Engineering Capture the Flag (SECTF) is an annual event held within the SocialEngineer Village at the DEF CON Hacking Conference in Las Vegas. The competition was formed to demonstrate how serious social engineering threats are to companies and how even novice individuals could use these skills to obtain important information. The contest is divided into two parts, the information-gathering phase that takes place prior to DEF CON, followed by the live call phase that occurs at the DEF CON conference.
Farid Mheir's insight:
This year's DEFCON24 report is full of information about social engineering, the event and methods to protect your organization. This is IMHO a must read for every executive to see how easy it is to breach security of their organization which can potentially result in theft, both physical and digital.
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Often we think that our digital lives or digital transformations must be protected with strong passwords, encryption and other digital security methods. However, time and again the "social engineers" have demonstrated that the weakest link in the chain often are the individuals, employees and partners that voluntarily divulge sensitive information. And this, no technology can prevent and companies must invest in training their employees to detect the social engineering methods and respond with appropriate actions when such techniques are being tested on them.
Xixi QU's curator insight,
November 27, 2016 4:06 AM
This year's DEFCON24 report is full of information about social engineering, the event and methods to protect your organization. This is IMHO a must read for every executive to see how easy it is to breach security of their organization which can potentially result in theft, both physical and digital.http://www.social-engineer.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Social-Engineer-Capture-The-Flag-DEFCON24-SECTF-2016.pdf WHY THIS IS IMPORTANTOften we think that our digital lives or digital transformations must be protected with strong passwords, encryption and other digital security methods. However, time and again the "social engineers" have demonstrated that the weakest link in the chain often are the individuals, employees and partners that voluntarily divulge sensitive information. And this, no technology can prevent and companies must invest in training their employees to detect the social engineering methods and respond with appropriate actions when such techniques are being tested on them.
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A flurry of social media reports suggests a major hacking campaign has been uncovered.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Google is warning individuals that their Google accounts are being hacked - even if they turned on 2-factor authentication.
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT This news stories highlights some very important security and privacy elements: 1- Google is actively protecting security and privacy of high profile individuals which is reassuring because only they have the size and scope to fight state-funded hacking 2- I always believed 2-factor authentication was a good way to protect your digital self: looks like I was wrong. More on this later... 3- Google has been doing this since 2012, so the whole thing is not new but recent DDoS attacks using Internet of Things devices (cameras, etc.) demonstrates that hackers now have new, very effective hacking tools and they are using it.
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Israeli researchers show that even if you're paranoid enough to remove your computer's microphone, malware can convert your headphones into spy bugs.
Farid Mheir's insight:
A vulnerability in always on devices that listen to our every words can be turned into a spy tool.
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT We are surrounded by "always on" devices - from Apple Siri and Airpods to Google NOW to Amazon echo. They listen to your every word looking for keywords such as "siri" or "OK google". Using those features one should assume the device is listening all the time and potentially recording to the cloud our conversations, which has a number of people quite scared including this Guardian article named "Goodbye privacy". https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/21/amazon-echo-alexa-home-robot-privacy-cloud
Here we are faced with an exploit that enables speakers - which everyone thinks of as an output device - to become listening devices. Any engineer knows that speakers and microphones work based on the same electromagnetic principle. However this exploit is special because it transforms the output port on the computer into an input port, allowing speakers to become microphones. And then record everything, compress it and send it to the cloud where it can be used for spying or other purpose.
The end of privacy is closer than it has ever been...
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Internet infrastructure giant Akamai last week released a special State of the Internet report. Normally, the quarterly accounting of noteworthy changes in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks doesn’t delve into attacks on specific customers. But this latest Akamai report makes an exception in describing in great detail the record-sized attack against KrebsOnSecurity.com in September, the largest such assault it has ever mitigated.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Describes recent DDoS attacks and provides links to Akamai State of the Internet report, a very useful reference.
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Going digital often means relying on the Internet for critical business operations. This article is a stark reminder of the need to put security on the top of priority list.
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A world beyond passwords is possible--technology is on the verge of rendering passwords obsolete, bolstering security as well as making users and customers happier.
Farid Mheir's insight:
A very good review of the limitations of passwords and the multiple new methods we will have to enhance our digital security.
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT To go digital, being secure is very high on the list of priorities. Maslow had put security as the second layer in the pyramid of needs - and I believe this is also true in the new pyramid of digital needs!
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As many of you know, my site was taken offline for the better part of this week. The outage came in the wake of ahistorically large distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack which hurled so much junk traffic at Krebsonsecurity.com that my DDoS protection provider Akamai chose to unmoor my site from its protective harbor.
(...) Today, I am happy to report that the site is back up — this time under Project Shield, a free program run by Google to help protect journalists from online censorship. And make no mistake, DDoS attacks — particularly those the size of the assault that hit my site this week — are uniquely effective weapons for stomping on free speech, for reasons I’ll explore in this post.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Brian Krebs exposes the attack his security blog has recently suffered, along with clear explanation of the attack and ways to prevent it.
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT It is by sharing stories like this one that we can all learn of potential danger that any website faces when a properly motivated opponent targets you.
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