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LexisNexis Risk Solutions and Promon formed an alliance to combine ThreatMetrix digital identity and device and behavioral intelligence with Promon Shield in-app protection and Promon Insight telemetry to reduce mobile app fraud. The package targets brands that need stronger defenses inside the app as fraud shifts to mobile channels.
3:59 PMPYMNTSFlock markets a "Vehicle Fingerprint" feature that lets police search for vehicles using visual attributes like decals, bumper stickers, racks, and temporary tags, even when a license plate is missing or unreadable. The pitch is that officers can identify and track vehicles and link related activity with less initial information.
7:15 AMSchneier on SecurityCitizen Lab found that Pegasus spyware targeted Stelios Kouloglou, a former Greek MEP who worked on inquiries into unlawful surveillance. The case adds a new example of commercial spyware being used against political figures in Europe.
4:20 AMAl JazeeraSummary
LexisNexis Risk Solutions and Promon formed an alliance to combine ThreatMetrix digital identity and device and behavioral intelligence with Promon Shield in-app protection and Promon Insight telemetry to reduce mobile app fraud. The package targets brands that need stronger defenses inside the app as fraud shifts to mobile channels.
Why it matters
As fraud migrates into mobile apps, vendors that can link identity signals with in-app integrity controls will set the baseline for how brands prevent account takeover and manipulation at scale.
Summary
Flock markets a "Vehicle Fingerprint" feature that lets police search for vehicles using visual attributes like decals, bumper stickers, racks, and temporary tags, even when a license plate is missing or unreadable. The pitch is that officers can identify and track vehicles and link related activity with less initial information.
Why it matters
It lowers the friction to track vehicles at scale, weakening the practical privacy protection of not having or not capturing a license plate.
Summary
Citizen Lab found that Pegasus spyware targeted Stelios Kouloglou, a former Greek MEP who worked on inquiries into unlawful surveillance. The case adds a new example of commercial spyware being used against political figures in Europe.
Why it matters
If investigators can be hacked with mercenary spyware, democratic oversight of surveillance becomes easier to sabotage and harder to enforce.
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