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According to DuckDuckGo, the desktop browser will work on both Mac and Windows devices. DuckDuckGo has revealed its plans for an upcoming desktop app in its latest blog post in which the company’s CEO Gabriel Weinberg shared details of their plans moving forward. DuckDuckGo’s CEO stated that they are developing a standalone desktop browser for […]
It has been revealed that NSO Group’s Pegasus malware was used to spy on U.S. government officials over the past few months. The iPhones of 9 U.S. state department officials were targeted with surveillance software. The officials were either in Uganda or working on projects linked to Uganda. The perpetrators of the attack are yet to […]
Facebook has announced that it will shut down its Facial Recognition System and delete the templates of over 1 billion people stored by this feature. This is a significant change, but contrary to popular perception, the social network won’t be forgoing the technology in its entirety because it regards facial recognition as a “powerful tool” […]
What is a data breach? A data breach is a security lapse where a non-authorized person can assess sensitive information without authorization. Let’s dig deeper into data breach prevention measures. A data breach is among the significant concerns bothering companies today. As more and more data is generated, proper management is where people focus their […]
The company maintains that it has to help fund Firefox’s optimization/development, and therefore, it has introduced a new feature called Firefox Suggest in Firefox 93. Mozilla, as we know it, is a non-profit organization. So, it goes without saying that the company has to look for alternate ways to stay profitable and survive in the […]
Edward Snowden Urging All to Avoid ExpressVPN After its CIO Named in UAE Surveillance Scandal. Last week, Hackread.com reported on a billion-dollar deal in which ExpressVPN was bought off by Kape, an Israeli cyber security company raising privacy concerns among its users. Now, in a recent tweet, the former NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has warned users […]
Lithuania’s Defense Ministry has released a warning, urging consumers to get rid of their Chinese phones and not to buy new ones. This warning comes in response to Lithuanian cybersecurity researchers identifying several security flaws and censorship-related loopholes in certain Chinese-made smartphones. Hackread.com has learned that researchers tested 5G mobiles from different Chinese mobile makers, […]
ProtonMail is being criticized for sharing French activist’s IP address with Swiss authorities while claiming it does not save logs. End-to-end encrypted email service provider ProtonMail is currently facing criticism after the company shared the IP address of an anti-gentrification activist with law enforcement agencies that led to their arrests in France. Reportedly, the company […]
The Whitehat hacker and IT security researcher Marcus Hutchins, who saved the world from the WannaCry ransomware attack, has shared simple yet useful tips on his TikTok detailing how you can detect hidden cameras in an Airbnb or a hotel room. There’s no doubt that the demand for home rental services like Airbnb is on […]
Apple has developed a system dubbed neuralMatch to locate child sexual abuse material/CSAM, and for now, it will scan iPhones of users in the United States. The perks of the internet are quite obvious and known to all but as they say “with every blessing comes a curse.” Similarly, the digital boom has brought along […]
User privacy and social media have always had a complex relationship, spawning endless debates on regulation, tracking online user behavior, and data collection. It’s why some companies including Apple, have increasingly started to push privacy as a core feature of their products. However, on Facebook, things are going backward. On numerous occasions, Hackread.com reported how […]
One major WhatsApp feature that will be limited includes receiving calls and messages as the messaging service will be disabled. If you are keeping an eye on WhatsApp’s new privacy policies you may already know that the company has backtracked on its previous decision to deactivate or delete user accounts that didn’t accept sharing their […]
A multi-billion pound British class action lawsuit has been filed against the tech giant Google in the UK Supreme Court. The lawsuit alleges that Google secretly tracked countless iPhone users’ internet activities. SEE: Google collects Android location data even if location service is off The consumer rights group, which?’s former director, Richard Lloyd, leads the […]
Recently, there has been a data breach from a telemarketing company called CallX which sells marketing services and software to enterprise clients, allowing businesses to track the performance of their media buying and telemarketing marketing operations. The data breach was discovered by vpnMentor’s Research team led by Noam Rotem. According to their report, Over […]
Over the years there have been several well-documented issues with facial recognition technology, such as inaccuracy when detecting people from different cultural backgrounds, privacy concerns, and the fear of the technology making a mistake and resulting in wrongful convictions of individuals. Those developing software tools have taken heed of the mistakes of the past and […]
COVID-19 testing service in the State of Utah stored passport scans and other highly personal data on unsecured Amazon S3 buckets. A COVID-19 testing service in Utah ran by Premier Diagnostics exposed sensitive information of more than 50,000 people by storing data on two unsecured Amazon S3 buckets. What data was exposed The information included […]
Google is facing a class-action lawsuit that claims the search engine giant secretly collects data from users even when they’re using its private Incognito mode. The US District Judge Lucy Koh wrote in her ruling that the search engine giant “did not notify users that Google engages in the alleged data collection while the user […]
Google Blocked ClearURLs Chrome Extension- Here’s How You Can Install it Manually. The ClearURLs is one of the popular Chrome extensions but Google has unceremoniously blocked it from Chrome Web Store, a decision that has received mixed reviews from users while the extension developer is unhappy with it. The extension add-on is available for Edge and […]
The exposed database was being updated in realtime with new logs while 1.48 million robocall logs were accessed by researchers initially. The WebsitePlanet research team alongside Jeremiah Fowler, an IT security researcher, discovered an insecure database that had no password protection and contained a large number of phone call records as well as VOIP (Voice […]
Research reveals startling new findings on Android data collection and how it sends 2-times more data to Google than iOS to Apple – Google has rejected the study. It’s a widely known fact that both iOS and Android devices send handset data to Apple or Google continuously, including location, local network details, phone number, etc. […]
Clubhouse has confirmed that it did not suffer a data breach and leaked records are in fact collected through data scraping. In the last couple of weeks, threat actors leaked a trove of scraped LinkedIn and Facebook user records. In LinkedIn’s case, the leaked records contained personal details of more than 1 billion users while […]