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According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, the National Security Agency (NSA) has recommended the White House to discard the notorious mass phone surveillance programme owing to logistics and legal challenges. However, the NSA used to defend its surveillance programme fervently, saying it was vital for national security. NSA’s Mass Data Collection Programme […]
In 2019, there is still surprisingly little information about such an old, simple, convenient, and secure technology, as mobile VPN – Virtual Private Network). In this article, I will describe how you can provide access to your virtual private network to any device with a SIM card without having to install and configure any additional […]
What data do Facebook, Google, and mobile apps collect, do mobile carriers listen to your calls? Read this post and find answers to these and other privacy questions as well as get tips on how to protect your personal data. It has become known that information about 257,000 Facebook users have been freely available. Although […]
Financial Crimes to Reach an Unprecedented High by 2023 if Dark Web marketplaces like Genesis are allowed to Operate- Researchers Claim. According to the latest research from Juniper Research, cybercriminals have developed a wide range of advanced tools to help users evade machine learning-based anti-fraud systems. On the other hand, Kaspersky Lab researchers have identified […]
VPN software programs of Palo Alto, Cisco, Pulse, and F5 don’t Store Session Cookies Securely- DHS. A warning has been issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) regarding the unreliable nature of Virtual Private Network (VPN) programmes from several well-known VPN service providers including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Pulse, and F5. The problem described […]
The breach came after FBI-linked websites were hacked. Three websites belonging to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) National Academy Association (FBINAA) were hacked apparently by three hackers after they managed to breach their security, steal and upload data online. Part of the uploaded content was dozens of documents containing personal information of federal agents […]
People usually ask their Amazon Echo devices, ‘Alexa, is someone else listening to us?’ Well as it turns out, the answer is yes. Amazon Alexa, the digital home assistant, gets smarter every day using your voice recording. It happens with the help of an Artificial Neural Network (ANN), human workers, and a non-disclosure agreement. Amazon […]
Unprotected Amazon Web Services has a new victim and it’s Facebook users. It’s just been a year since the Cambridge Analytics scandal made headlines the world in which Facebook failed to secure its users’ information. Now the cybersecurity firm UpGuard’s researchers have identified the presence of another unsecure Facebook database that has been publicly posted […]
The condition of being anonymous is called anonymity – Let’s suppose you want to post the most anonymous comment on a social network imaginable. What kind of tools do you need for that? VPN? Tor? SSH tunnel? In fact, none of the above. It suffices to purchase a burner SIM card and a used smartphone […]
We normally consider family locator app as a blessing because we are able to track our family members conveniently through them. But, what if your private data collected or shared on such an app gets misused by cybercriminals because the app fails to secure it properly? It would instantly become a nuisance…no? The same has […]
It was in November, 2012, when the first time The Australian Privacy Commissioner announced that under a new law, it will be able to issue million-dollar fines to government agencies, and companies for serious and repeated privacy breaches. The Commonwealth Attorney at that time was -General Nicola Roxon. He stated this move to be the […]
The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General has released a report revealing that FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) couldn’t protect the private and confidential information of about 2.3 million hurricane survivors. In 2017, residents of Harvey, Maria, Irma, and California wildfires and hurricanes were offered Transitional Sheltering Assistance (TSA), which is a […]
The company says it discovered the issue in January and there is no need to change passwords. The social media giant Facebook has revealed that its internal data storage systems saved user passwords in plain text that could be accessed by employees. The social media said an ongoing investigation so far has revealed no sign that employees abused or accessed […]
Apparently it is impossible for Facebook to get away from the problems. According to an ethical hacking training expert from the International Institute of Cyber Security, the social network faces an investigation by federal agents due to its policy for the management and exchange of data with third parties. According to the reports, a grand […]
The recent Facebook downtime became a blessing in disguise for Telegram, a Facebook Messenger competitor. The App grew with 3 million new users overnight, as the most used instant messaging app that is run by Facebook was unusable for at least 8 straight hours. Telegram is a lesser known app that competes with WhatsApp and […]
Another day, another data breach; this time, Victor Gevers, a Dutch security researcher from GDI Foundation has discovered a publically exposed database containing a massive trove of highly sensitive data of millions of Chinese women. According to Gevers, the database which is open for anyone to access contains personal details of 1.8 million women from China […]
It wasn’t very long ago that I revealed that most free VPN services are provided as a front for the big corporations running them to collect user that. Spurred by the findings of that study, I decided to dig deeper to see how much of a threat, especially when it comes to user data, Android VPN […]
Verifications.io breach is one of the largest data breaches but the good news is that it does not involve passwords. Another day, another data breach; this time the email validation service Verifications.io has leaked a humongous database containing personal and sensitive records of more than 2 billion individuals around the world. Verifications.io breach – What happened It […]
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has promised to introduce end-to-end encryption and auto-expire features on Messenger and other Facebook apps, to fulfill his commitment to privacy. In a 3,200 words blog post published by Zuckerberg, he announced that the company wants to become a “privacy-focused communications platform” for which new changes will be made to all Facebook-owned apps. At present, Facebook provides […]
Thanks to yet another unsecure MongoDB Server. Dalil is a Saudi caller ID app that is reportedly been leaking user data because of storing it on an unsecure MongoDB server. Within a week private data of over 5 million Dalil users has been leaked and the data is available online easily for everyone to access. […]
A database hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and owned by Dow Jones has accidentally been exposed putting approx. 2.4 million corporate entities and individuals at risk of data theft. Reportedly, the exposed database comprises sensitive information about terrorists, criminals, and shady businesses. The culprit in this incident is an incorrectly configured and poorly secured […]