Credential Disclosure in (EU) Digital Identity Wallets: Privacy Risks and Practical Mitigations

The European Union will introduce the EUDI Wallet by late 2026, which allows users to hold digital credentials i.e., representations of physical official identity documents on their devices. This will allow users to securely and privately disclose identity attributes to websites. Although such a...

New Microsoft Purview innovations for Fabric to safely accelerate your AI transformation

As organizations adopt AI, security and governance remain core primitives for safe AI transformation and acceleration. After all, data leaders are aware of the notion that: Your AI is only as good as your data. Organizations are skeptical about AI transformation due to concerns of sensitive data...

New Microsoft Purview innovations for Fabric to safely accelerate your AI transformation

As organizations adopt AI, security and governance remain core primitives for safe AI transformation and acceleration. After all, data leaders are aware of the notion that: Your AI is only as good as your data. Organizations are skeptical about AI transformation due to concerns of sensitive data...

Scammers harvesting Facebook photos to stage fake kidnappings, warns FBI

The FBI has warned about a new type of scam where your Facebook pictures are harvested to act as “proof-of-life” pictures in a virtual kidnapping. The scammers pretend they have kidnapped somebody and contact friends and next of kin to demand a ransom for their release. While the alleged victim i...

Tips and Tools for Social Media Safety

Protect your social media presence with tools like privacy checkups, monitoring services, and digital footprint scanners. Stay secure by avoiding oversharing, limiting third-party app permissions, and using strong passwords...

Home-Office Photos: A Ripe Cyberattack Vector

That photo that appears when someone disables his or her Zoom video, or those photos of a remote worker’s home office shared on Instagram may seem innocuous and playful. However, they could become ammunition for threat actors to launch targeted scams and put personal and critical data at risk, a...

A week in security (February 1 – February 7)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we dug into a load of security events. We first peered into how Fonix ransomware was giving up the ghost, swearing off a life of crime and even apologizing for past actions. We looked at a credit card skimmer that found opportunity in the latest Magento 1 hacking...

FEMA Exposes PII for Millions of Hurricane, Wildfire Survivors

The Federal Emergency Management Agency exposed the personal identifiable information of 2.3 million survivors of hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria and the California wildfires in 2017, by oversharing survivor data with a contractor when it wasn’t necessary. Worse, the contractor’s networks has...

Consumer Reports: 13 Million Facebook Users Ignore Privacy Settings

A Consumer Reports investigation indicates 13 million U.S. Facebook users are oversharing — and likely don’t know it. That figure represents 8 percent of Facebook’s 150 million U.S. users, but it is part of an upward trend in users failing to protect themselves while on the social network — putti...