Security
Buyers with an entrée to Dark Web retailers participated in a market that was even larger, more diverse, and vigorous than the year before.
Written for the February 2021 to January 2022 reporting period, this guide updates information provided in our previous report.
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News
Personal data of close to 3 million BitChute users is being sold on a popular hacker forum for a sum of $4,000. The data is sold by a hacker or group of hackers known as Pompompurin.
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News
Two days ago the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) email servers were targeted by hackers who sent out thousands of fake messages claiming that recipients were victims of cyberattacks. The thread actor known as “Pompompurin” is suspected of being behind this attack. A Privacy Affairs investigation revealed that Pompompurin is also likely behind the recent attack against Robinhood.
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Unblocking
Japanese Netflix is famous for its vast catalog of anime, TV shows, and movies. Other Netflix catalogs offer anime, but it is just a drop […]
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VPN
You will know Opera VPN is not working correctly if you encounter the following messages. ‘Unavailable to connect to opera server,’ ‘VPN is temporarily unavailable, Opera is working on the problem,’ or you get stuck in the connecting stage. Here is what to do to get Opera VPN working again.
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Unblocking
Disney Plus is a premium streaming outlet owned by the Disney media company. The service offers some of the best content from legendary productions like Disney, Lucasfilm (Star Wars), Marvel, Pixar, National Geographic, and 20th Century Fox. Moreover, Disney+ also bundles content from both Hulu and ESPN+.
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VPN
A VPN kill switch is a feature offered by some VPNs that will automatically disconnect you from the internet whenever your VPN connection fails. This is extremely useful if you don’t want the website or app you are using to find out your real IP address.
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"Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet."
Gary Kovacs
List of all known GDPR fines and detailed statistics based on countries.
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An updated (2021) research on the dark web prices of various personally identifiable information (PII) sold on the dark web.
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We studied data from a range of reputable sources to find out just how bad the situation is for healthcare data privacy in the USA.
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Voter records of more than 107 million Americans is illegally sold on dark web markets for the low price of just $10.
Read MoreCompanies such as Facebook and Google track you to sell highly personalized advertising space to the highest bidder. They know who your friends are, what you’re interested in, how likely you are to watch a certain video, your political leanings, and even which websites you visit.
Governments watch your every move by passing laws to force ISPs to provide information on every character you type into a search engine and every webpage you visit. They know your location at any time through triangulation of your mobile phone and can follow you using huge networks of CCTV cameras.
They even constantly try to undermine the safety that protects us from having our data wide visible to anyone who looks – strong encryption.
Hackers and cybercriminals are constantly looking for vulnerable systems companies use to store users’ data and use sophisticated social engineering attacks to trick people into handing their data over willingly.
Major data breaches happen at an alarming rate and continue to increase in frequency. A US computer is targeted in a hacking attempt every 25 seconds, and the cost of cybercrime on the global economy is set to reach $6 Trillion in 2021.
The consequences can be profound when your data falls into the wrong hands. This happens, ranging from changing your passwords, having your emails published, and your website memberships becoming public knowledge to being denied credit in the future because someone has used your name to take out a loan.
Privacy Affairs is an information provider and content creator dedicated to helping you understand how to protect your private data and ensure you don’t find yourself on the wrong side of a data breach or cyber attack.
We report important news, research vulnerable consumer and professional technologies, and provide information on how to keep your info safe from rogue companies, prying governments, cybercriminals, and anyone else who would do you harm by stealing or otherwise intercepting your data.