China Gets busy on the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the week ending October 1st. 2024.

EP210

For this update we kick off with 11 million devices and end with a way to track those that were supposed to be un-trackable.

We start with the reoccurrence from a family of malware that once was eradicated, but now seems to have reappeared.

We move from there to the US where the Federal Trade Commission has finally decided to weigh in on social media apps. and how they are making money.

From there a new way to get phished. This one is aimed at developers, but the next, may have you in it's sights.

We are gifted a new browser in the Firefox class. We tried it and we like it.

The US moves…

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