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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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Email Verifiers and Data Breaches. What You Need to Know.

29

Mar

2021

Have you ever wondered why your email address and other information appeared in a data breach impacting a platform you never signed up for? You probably don’t recall creating an account on the Verifications.io platform or River City Media. That’s because you didn’t. It’s time you find out everything about your invisible connection to email […]

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Canada Revenue Agency Discloses Credential Stuffing Attack on 5,500 Service Accounts

17

Aug

2020

A credential stuffing attack targeting Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) accounts has forced the government tax collector to suspend its online services over the weekend. The compromised accounts were linked to the GCKey portal, a system used by 30 federal departments allowing citizens to access services such as employment insurance, immigration applications and COVID-19 relief benefits. […]

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