[liberationtech] Privacy/Security Labyrinths

[Robert Mathews (OSIA)]

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Note Before:* A VERY small example of the sizes and shapes of
Privacy/Security labyrinths.

    /In a single Fortune 500 data breach, the following information
    types of past and present employees and their respective
    beneficiaries were compromised. Among the various types were: 
    1) driver license information
    2) direct (bank) deposit forms
    3) birth certificates
    4) marriage certificates
    5) death certificates
    6) health information
    7) child-support orders
    8) tax withholding forms
    9) beneficiary information and beneficiary designation forms
    10) applications for benefits
    11) retirement information
    12) corporate severance information
    13  death benefit designations/

*General Electric (GE) Discloses Data Breach Affecting Present and
Former Employees*
*SECURITY*
April 9, 2020
https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/92099-general-motors-discloses-data-breach-affecting-present-and-former-employees

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*SBA (US Gov) says data breach affected nearly 8,000 small businesses*
By Penny Crosman
*American Banker*
April 22, 2020
https://www.americanbanker.com/news/sba-says-data-breach-affected-nearly-8-000-small-businesses

"A glitch in the Small Business Administration's Economic Injury
Disaster Loan portal (COVID-19 Relief Program) has led to a breach of
personal data of 7,913 small-business business owners."

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*Sophisticated Android Spyware Attack Spreads via Google Play*
Tara Seals
April 28, 2020
*threatpost*
https://threatpost.com/sophisticated-android-spyware-google-play/155202/

"The PhantomLance espionage campaign is targeting specific victims,
mainly in Southeast Asia — and could be the work of the OceanLotus APT".

-- 
/Dr. Robert Mathews, D.Phil.
Principal Technologist &
//Distinguished Senior Research Scholar//
//Office of Scientific Inquiry & Applications (OSIA)//
//University of Hawai'i/
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