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If you are reading this, thinking about your personal data or even secrets, you may have bigger problems than you can solve. The secrets we are talking about here, have to do with GitHub. Therefore, they can be API keys, usernames, passwords, and other sensitive information, located in these environments. Thankfully, there are solutions. Here […]
Teens can now report their explicit content through a tool that can be termed as a positive initiative against revenge and child abuse content. An online tool has been developed to help those young people who want to remove their nude images, whether or not they have been shared/circulated online. Dubbed Report Remove; the tool […]
Nowadays, privacy on your smartphone plays an increasingly important role in our daily life. Large tech companies want to know more about you. This mainly concerns personal information such as your name, age and place of residence. These companies are also curious about where your interests lie. Companies such as Google or Facebook obtain this […]
Instagram has patched a new flaw that allowed anyone to view archived posts and stories posted by private accounts without having to follow them. “This bug could have allowed a malicious user to view targeted media on Instagram,” Mayur Fartade said in a Medium post today. “An attacker could have been able to see details […]
Bergen Logistics, a New Jersey-based company exposed its database back in December 2020 but Lolz when alerted about the incident. Recently, the IT security researchers at Website Planet uncovered an exposed database belonging to Bergen Logistics that stored 467,979 records all relevant to their shipments and customers. This means that any clients that conducted business […]
The vulnerability affects top browsers including Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and even Tor. It is not unusual for a user to switch between using different browsers for different browsing activities and those who have made this into a routine may even be at risk because a security researcher and developer at FingerprintJS, Konstatin Darutkin, recently discovered […]
In July 2018, when Guizhou-Cloud Big Data (GCBD) agreed to a deal with state-owned telco China Telecom to move iCloud data belonging to Apple’s China-based users to the latter’s servers, the shift raised concerns that it could make user data vulnerable to state surveillance. Now, according to a deep-dive report from The New York Times, […]
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 […]
When you think of WhatsApp, other than privacy concerns, the first thing that comes to your mind is chats or free video calls. While it’s not far from the truth at all, the world’s most popular instant messaging app won’t require having a phone connected to work in the near future. You can use WhatsApp […]
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 […]
If installed; the fake and malicious WhatsApp pink app takes full control of a targeted device. An unusual baiting technique has appeared with the WhatsApp users receiving links that claim to turn the application’s theme from its trademark green to pink. Simultaneously, it also promises ‘‘new features” that have not been specified. Cyber experts have […]
Moxie Marlinspike, CEO of Signal states that since Cellebrite itself makes a living from undisclosed vulnerabilities, he decided to disclose the vulnerability to the public rather than informing the company. In December 2020, Cellebrite claimed that it could easily crack Signal’s encryption. However, it seems like tables have turned for the Israel-based software maker since […]
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 […]
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 […]
On April 22nd, 2021, a hacker going by the online handle of Pompompurin leaked a database containing personal and sensitive household data of over 250 million (250,807,711) American citizens and residents. As seen by Hackread.com, the database was leaked on a prominent hacker forum and comprises 263 GB worth of records including 1,255 CSV subfiles […]
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 […]
The research team at vpnMentor, who discovered the data, believes that it belongs to Microsoft as some of the files appeared to originate from a series of pitches made to Microsoft Dynamics Recently vpnMentor’s research team led by Noam Rotem uncovered a data breach that may presumably be owned by one of the biggest companies […]
Online trading and discount brokerage platform Upstox has become the latest Indian company to suffer a security breach of its systems, resulting in the exposure of sensitive information of approximately 2.5 million users on the dark web. The leaked information includes names, email addresses, dates of birth, bank account information, and about 56 million know […]