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Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs): A Deep Dive

Introduction In today’s data-driven world, protecting our personal information has never been more critical. No day passes without fear of privacy breaches and unauthorised surveillance confronting us as data theft takes place simultaneously. Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) enable data protection through a collection of tools that maintain personal data security without impacting its valid use. The …

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The Spoutible Data Breach: Analysis of API Security Vulnerabilities in Social Media

Introduction In January 2024, Spoutible, a social media platform launched as a direct rival to X (previously Twitter), suffered a major data breach that exposed the sensitive personal information of 207,000 users. The incident, discovered security researcher, was attributed to a flaw in the API configuration of Spoutible’s platform raising serious questions about the safety …

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Indigo Ransomware Attack A Comprehensive Ayalysis

OVERVIEW On 8th February 2023, Canada’s largest book retailer Indigo Books & Music Inc. suffered a ransomware incident that shut down its whole business. At store point of sale systems and e-commerce systems were infected and had to shut down and stop their entire systems to contain the spread of the attack. The Attacker was …

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