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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has ordered mental telehealth company Cerebral from using or disclosing personal medical data for advertising purposes. It has also been fined more than $7 million over charges that it revealed users’ sensitive personal health information and other data to third-parties for advertising purposes and failed to honor its easy […]
Chinese users looking for legitimate software such as Notepad++ and VNote on search engines like Baidu are being targeted with malicious ads and bogus links to distribute trojanized versions of the software and ultimately deploy Geacon, a Golang-based implementation of Cobalt Strike. “The malicious site found in the notepad++ search is distributed through an advertisement […]
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 […]
In its latest blog post, the code hosting platform GitHub has announced that it is adding an HTTP header for github.com and github.io and added return “Permissions-Policy: interest-cohort=()” header, which is a move that would block Google’s FLoC. FLoC will be blocked on any webpage or website hosted on these two domains. However, GitHub didn’t […]
Privacy scandals involving large social media companies are becoming more frequent nowadays. This time, web application security specialists report that the phone numbers used for multi-factor authentication and email addresses linked to the Twitter users accounts were “inadvertently” used for advertising purposes. The alleged error was revealed on the company’s official blog. In their post […]
Track This is a new kind of incognito, says Mozilla. It is a fact that everything that you do on the Internet such as using Facebook or Twitter, online shopping or aimlessly surfing the web, is being tracked. Haven’t you noticed that as soon as you search for something, ads relevant to the search start […]
Google knows “what, when, where & how much” about your online shopping but claims it does not use the data for advertisement. Gmail is home to more than 1.5 billion users which makes it a lucrative service for Google whose business model demands data collected from users’ online searches, web browsing, and other online activities. […]
A new highly sophisticated campaign that delivers the Orcus RAT embedded in video files and Images. The campaign mainly focuses on information stealing and .NET evasion. The Orcus RAT is capable of steal browser cookies and passwords, launch server stress tests (DDoS attacks), disable the webcam activity light, record microphone input, spoof file extensions, log […]
Google says third-party developers can read your Gmail because you allow them. In 2014, during a lawsuit hearing, Google acknowledged that the company reads users’ emails and that Gmail users should not expect privacy. Then, in June last year, Google announced that it will stop analyzing user’s personal emails for targeted advertising purposes. However, now, […]
Have you ever noticed you are talking about a product you want to buy and moments later advertisements related to that product appears on your desktop or smartphone? Well, that happens because your online activity is being tracked by websites and Android apps. You must have also heard of the famous saying “There is no […]
Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab discovered that about 4 million popular mobile apps are unreliable because these use insecure Software Development Kits or SDKs, which leads to leaking of user data in unencrypted form. The leaked data includes private information like name, gender, age, income, email address, device information, GPS data, call history, SMS and […]
Facebook needs no introduction; it is a social networking platform that helps you connect with your family, friends, colleagues and loved ones, as well as lets you find new acquaintances and even life partner. It is a very useful platform but sadly, Facebook is also involved in activities, which many users would consider an invasion […]
Bad news for those website owners who trick their readers/users into clicking on fake ads and tricky downloads — Google Chrome is coming to get you for good. In December 2015, Google started supporting Safe Browsing technology, which was introduced to block those websites that were famous spots for phishing and social engineering attacks. While […]
Disabling ad-blocker at Forbes will unleash a malware Web publications usually ask readers to disable ad blockers if visiting their websites with AdBlock on. It is understandable since publishers rely upon advertisements for income and therefore, want users to not turn on adblockers. But for a reader, it becomes quite irritating to let adverts ruin […]
Cyber criminals have turned their attention towards x-rated sites and are using their most favorite tool- malvertising. Malvertising is short-term used for malicious advertising. The purpose of malvertising is to infect the devices of visitors with malware. In the latest malvertising campaign, criminals have targeted numerous popular adult websites such as PornHub, xHamster, DrTuber, IcePorn, […]
On Tuesday, Facebook announced that tests are being conducted which will allow users to change their static profile pic to a 7-sec video clip. Facebook is now introducing 5 changes to user profiles that will help make the social networking website more attractive and interactive. This change is to stay ahead in the ‘graphics’ competition as Twitter’s auto-play video (just like Facebook’s) and Snapchat’s […]
We all know that one of the basic procedures to keep our computer system secure and free from viruses and malware is to keep the operating system as well as the installed applications updated, as it makes sure that your system is not vulnerable to hackers. Apart from that, you must have heard from the […]
JUDGE SLAPS FACEBOOK WITH PRIVACY VIOLATION RULING. U.S District Judge Phyllis Hamilton ruled thatFacebook must “face the consequences” of violating its users’ privacy by actually scanning the messages they have been sending to other users as a form of advertising. The US judge from Oakland, California deniedFacebook the right to dismiss the lawsuit but […]