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Artificial intelligence is increasingly advanced and has entered more and more areas, even in the most unexpected and sensitive issues for society such as the world’s first AI lawyer Ross. Now, tech giant NVIDIA has developed a tool that uses Artificial Intelligence to create extremely realistic human faces. None of the faces you find in the sample […]
An Amazon customer in Germany under the European Union data protection law called GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) requested the company to send all the data it stored on him but little did he know he was about to get his hands on a trove of 1,700 audio recordings of a stranger speaking in their home. The customer who […]
Another day, another data breach – This time, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has suffered a data breach in which personal data of the agency’s employees have been stolen. In a notification obtained by SpaceRef, the data breach was identified on October 23rd, 2018. The initial analysis revealed that unknown hackers may have […]
A lot of our personal information could be stored online forever Limiting the exposure of your personal data can be a very simple or too complex task depending on each person. In addition, according to cybersecurity experts from the International Institute of Cyber Security, people cannot completely prevent a digital platform from collecting their information, […]
SplashData, Inc. a leading password management application developer including SplashID has released a list of the 100 worst passwords of 2018. The company established the ranking after evaluating more than 5 million keywords leaked on the Internet this year. Their findings highlight the fact that the adoption of security practices is still underestimated by Internet users, […]
1 500 applications, of 876 different developers, accessed photos that users stored as a draft Facebook has just revealed a new vulnerability in its platform, which allowed third-party applications to access unpublished photos of about 6.8 million users, report experts in digital forensics from the International Institute of Cyber Security. If a user uploads a […]
The Cadastro de Pessoas Físicas (CPFs) is a taxpayer registry identification for Brazilians – In this case, 120 million CPFs were exposed online. The IT security researchers at InfoArmor’s Advanced Threat Intelligence team discovered a treasure trove of personal sensitive data belonging to over 120 million Brazilians exposed on an unprotected AWS (Amazon Web Service) S3 cloud […]
The regulatory agency in Italy declared that the social network is guilty of deceiving consumers regarding the use that gives their data Facebook has been fined by European authorities for the second time for breaches related to users’ privacy. This time, the authority that has decided to fine the company is Italian Competition Authority (ICA), […]
A bug bounty hunter from India, Sahad Nk who works forSafetyDetective, a cybersecurity firm, has received a reward from Microsoft for uncovering and reporting a series of critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft accounts. These vulnerabilities were present on users’ Microsoft accounts from MS Office files to Outlook emails. This means, all kinds of accounts (over 400 […]
It’s no surprise that the apps we download on our smartphones are tracking our movements and also transferring the information to third parties without our consent. Last year it was Google caught collecting location data of Android users even if their device’s location service was off then the Gay dating app Grindr, Facebook and the fitness app by […]
Google Plus has been hit by yet another bug forcing the company to shut down the social media site earlier than previously anticipated. In October this year, Google revealed that a bug was present in the API for the consumer version of Google Plus (Google+) that allowed third-party developers to access data of not just over 500,000 users but also […]
The Australian government is looking for a way to access encrypted communications of certain services, as well as access to non encrypted communications Specialists in information security and digital forensics from the International Institute of Cyber Security report that the Australian House of Representatives has approved the “Telecommunications Assistance and Access Bill” nicknamed “Anti encryption […]
Various Linux distributions might be affected by this new vulnerability Digital forensics experts from the International Institute of Cyber Security report that, thanks to a recently discovered vulnerability, a user account with limited privileges on most Linux operating systems with a UID value greater than 2147483647 could run any SYSTEMCTL command without authorization. The […]
Quora hacked – Change your password now. Another day, another data breach – This time Quora, a question-and-answer website, has suffered a massive data breach in which personal data of 100 million registered users has been stolen, the company said on Tuesday, December 4th. In a blog post, Quora’s Chief Executive Adam D’Angelo explained that the […]
The non-governmental agency seeks to stop US government pressure on technology and communications companies Digital forensics experts from the International Institute of Cyber Security report that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a legal procedure to disclose judicial documents about the American government’s attempt to force Facebook to create an encryption backdoor on […]
Misconfigured ElasticSearch Servers Exposed Private Data of over 82 Million Users. A warning has been issued by Bob Diachenko, a HackenProof security researcher informing users in the US that around 73 gigabytes of data is identified in a “regular security audit” of publicly accessible servers on the Shodan IoT search engine. According to the researcher, […]
Dunkin Donuts says it has suffered a data breach in which customer data of its DD Perks loyalty program may have been stolen – The DD Perk is a reward program for the company’s regular customers. According to a now-inaccessible security advisory, Dunkin Donuts stated that the data breach was initially detected on October 31st forcing it to […]
The computer technology giant Dell has announced on Wednesday that it has suffered a potential security breach in which hackers attempted to steal customer data from its website Dell.com. The incident took place on November 9th when Dell detected and disrupted an attack aimed at the personal data of its customers including names, email addresses, and […]
In 2015, Beijing based laptop manufacturer and seemingly reliable technology company Lenovo made headlines that its 750,000 laptops had pre-installed adware called VisualDiscovery developed by Superfish. The adware played a vital role in compromising online security protections installed by the users on their laptops, accessed financial data and performed man-in-the-middle attack on private and secure connections […]
Some Mac apps are so persistent that you can’t use traditional methods to remove them. Even if you do, there will always be some app remnants that clog up your system’s memory and resources. Programs like malware are case in point. They’re notoriously hard to remove, and even if you get rid of the main […]
The latest report from breach monitoring website HaveIBeenPwned reveals that in August, popular adult video game website High Tail Hall (HTH) was hacked and private data of about half a million subscribers was stolen. The leaked data includes names, email IDs, and order histories among other details. After a few months, the stolen data was […]