All posts tagged "privacy"
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3.1KData BreachIrish Regulator Fines Facebook $277 Million for Leak of Half a Billion Users’ Data
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has levied fines of €265 million ($277 million) against Meta Platforms for failing to safeguard the personal...
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3.1KData BreachIndia’s Newest Airline Akasa Air Found Leaking Passengers’ Personal Information
Akasa Air, India’s newest commercial airline, exposed the personal data belonging to its customers that the company blamed on a technical configuration...
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357VulnerabilitiesHackers Exploit Twitter Vulnerability to Exposes 5.4 Million Accounts
Twitter on Friday revealed that a now-patched zero-day bug was used to link phone numbers and emails to user accounts on the...
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2.8KMalwareTikTok Postpones Privacy Policy Update in Europe After Italy Warns of GDPR Breach
Popular video-sharing platform TikTok on Tuesday agreed to pause a controversial privacy policy update that could have allowed it to serve targeted...
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479MalwareEU Data Protection Watchdog Calls for Ban on Pegasus-like Commercial Spyware
The European Union’s data protection authority on Tuesday called for a ban on the development and the use of Pegasus-like commercial spyware...
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1.1KSurveillanceDuckDuckGo developing a robust privacy-focused desktop browser
According to DuckDuckGo, the desktop browser will work on both Mac and Windows devices. DuckDuckGo has revealed its plans for an upcoming...
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4.5KData SecurityGumtree exposed users’ personal and GPS location via source code
All a user required was to open Gumtree’s website and press the F12 button on Chrome or Firefox browsers to view users’...
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3.8KData SecurityGerman audio tech giant Sennheiser exposed 55GB of customers’ data
Sennheiser left personal data of over 28,000 customers exposed on a misconfigured Amazon Web Services (AWS) server. According to a report from...
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4.2KCyber EventsPlanned Parenthood data breach: Hackers steal 400,000 patients’ data
According to Planned Parenthood, the latest data breach has affected its Los Angeles branch (PPLA) after it suffered a ransomware attack. On...
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2.3KData SecurityWiFi software management firm exposed millions of users’ data
Brazil-based WiFi management software firm WSpot exposed extensive details of high-profile firms and millions of customers. WSpot provides software to let businesses...
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1.7KData SecurityNew vulnerabilities allowed attackers to intercept Zoom meetings
Exploiting these vulnerabilities, a remote attacker could also execute arbitrary code on the server using root-user privileges. The cybersecurity researchers at Positive...
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4.8KSurveillanceFacebook to end facial recognition and delete billions of records
Facebook has announced that it will shut down its Facial Recognition System and delete the templates of over 1 billion people stored...
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2.9KNewsHacker steals govt database with info of entire Argentine population
Reportedly, the database also contains personal information of Argentinian President Alberto Fernández, football superstars Sergio Aguero and Lionel Messi. After the infamous...
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4.1KSurveillanceWhat is a data breach & how to prevent one?
What is a data breach? A data breach is a security lapse where a non-authorized person can assess sensitive information without authorization....
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303Data SecurityPsst! tool by 1Password lets users share passwords using a link
1Password password manager has introduced a new tool called Password Secure Sharing Tool or Psst! that lets users share their passwords or...
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4.8KNewsStorybooks for children app FarFaria exposed data of 3M users
According to FarFaria, its apps are “created for children ages 2-9” meaning that the incident exposed children to cybercriminals. Another day, another...
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5.1KNewsThe Telegraph newspaper exposed 10TB of subscriber data
The data was exposed due to an unprotected Elasticsearch cluster and remained open to public access without any security authentication. Well-known security...
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3.1KSurveillanceLithuania wants users to dump Chinese phones citing data collection
Lithuania’s Defense Ministry has released a warning, urging consumers to get rid of their Chinese phones and not to buy new ones....
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3.3KHow ToHow to use VPN to access blocked websites?
Governments and regimes across the globe use censorship as a tool to control the flow of information. This article highlights how one...
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4.7KSurveillanceProtonMail logged, shared activist’s IP address with Swiss police
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...
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2.0KSurveillanceWhitehat hacker shows how to detect hidden cameras in Airbnb, hotels
The Whitehat hacker and IT security researcher Marcus Hutchins, who saved the world from the WannaCry ransomware attack, has shared simple yet...
