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31 Million Data Leaked Online Reveal that keyboard App Collects Everything from Contacts to Keystrokes

Millions of customer personal data exposed online due to a Misconfiguration with MongoDB that belongs to Ai.Type, the company that well know for developing the personalized virtual keyboard app for Android and iOS. Security researchers from Kromtech Security Center identified that the company exposed their entire 577GB Mongo-hosted in public, anyone with internet connection can […]

How To Block Windows 10 Data Collection

There are many apps to block Windows 10 data collection, but it’s almost hard to choose the best one since all the software claims to disable everything that tracks your latest OS. telemetry hosts services group policies disable Wi-Fi sense P2P Widnows updates outside local network application impact telemetry group police

Data of 18k Penn State University Folks affected in Chinese-led cyber attack

The officials at The Penn State College of Engineering announced that its servers were attacked in two “extremely sophisticated” cyber-attacks and as a result, personal data of 18k folks was affected. On Friday (15th of May) the Penn State University said that its College of Engineering was attacked by two cyber-attacks, one in 2012 which […]

Windows 10 Technical Preview: A Spy in Disguise?

Windows 10 Technical Preview (TP), a trial version released last week, collects and transmits lots of user data to Microsoft, according to a report published in the Forbes. The daily�referred it as �jaw dropping level of invasion.� Microsoft announces in its privacy policy the kind of information it will be collecting from the users who […]