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Data Scraping: Associated Security and Privacy Risks

05

May

2021

Web scraping, or data scraping, is the process of extracting and collecting data from websites. Today, data harvesting is mostly automated, relying on specific tools. On a much smaller scale, regular internet users often participate in data scraping. This manual process requires users to copy-paste the information into a locally stored document or file. Businesses […]

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DigitalOcean admits data breach exposed customers’ billing details

30

Apr

2021

DigitalOcean, the popular cloud-hosting provider, has told some of its customers that their billing details were exposed due to what it described as a “flaw.” In an email sent out to affected users, DigitalOcean explained that an unauthorised party had managed to exploit the flaw to gain access to billing information between April 9 and […]

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Auto Insurance Giant GEICO Discloses Data Breach

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Apr

2021

A wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, the Government Employees Insurance Company (GEICO) is the second largest car insurer in the United States, but also offers property insurance. In a data breach notification to impacted individuals, the company reveals that, between January 21 and March 1, 2021, using customer information acquired elsewhere, fraudsters managed to […]

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