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A team of researchers has disclosed their findings at the NDSS (Network and Distributed System Security) symposium 2019 held in San Diego, revealing that cellular networks have certain vulnerabilities that can potentially affect not only 4G but 5G LTE protocols to IMSI capturing attacks. The findings of their research have been published in a paper titled […]
Google always Maintain the Extremely strong Cyber Security Culture for Data Security, Network Security, Cloud Security and Physical security. Google’s this extreme level security protection beginning from hiring the employee until the biggest security breach investigations. Employee background checks, Security training Privacy events Before they join google staff, Google will confirm an individual’s training and […]
Does your VPN leaks DNS data? Does the DNS testing tool you’re using shows actual or sponsored results for affiliate marketing? Virtual private network (VPN) users are increasing at a great pace due to growing privacy concerns and numerous VPN options, including both paid and free. But many of us make the wrong choice and […]
At the beginning of the year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg promised that he would hold public talks as a part of 2019 resolution which aims at solving issues in the tech world. Taking this forward, Zuckerberg had a 100-minute conversation with Harvard professor Jonathan Zittrain where he tried to explain how Facebook is all about protecting the privacy of its users. […]
China is often held responsible for conducting surveillance campaigns and espionage activities discreetly not only on its citizens but governments across continents. Now, a misconfigured facial recognition database has emerged that confirms the allegations put forth against China. Reportedly, a Dutch security researcher has exposed database that contains exclusive details about the deep-rooted surveillance tactics […]
A new way for cybercriminals to create fake social media profiles and carry identity scams using Artificial Intelligence powered tool? A couple of months ago it was reported that NVIDIA has developed a tool that uses Artificial Intelligence to create extremely realistic human faces which in reality do not exist. Now, there is a website that […]
Another year, another day, and you are again reading news about Facebook about to get fined by the FTC. And this time, the money could be greater than what the tech giant had already paid — it could be in a multi-billion dollar magnitude. It goes without saying that the underlying reason behind the record […]
The Government of Germany ordered Facebook to restrict the way the social network collects information from its users According to network security and ethical hacking specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security, Bundeskartellamt, the competition authority in Germany ordered Facebook to restrict its data collection and mixing policy when the users did not have […]
User privacy is a very serious issue for Apple; removing this option from its browser seems to reinforce this posture Apple has decided to remove from its browser the function Do Not Track (DNT), which allows the user to disable the online activity tracking software present on many Internet pages. The company introduced support for […]
The check-in links sent to customers by several airlines could be useful for various hacking activities, warn experts Ethical hacking and network security specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security report that links sent by airlines such as Air France, used for the electronic issuance of airline tickets, do not have any kind of […]
Online service users can request that their activity not be tracked, although most browsers ignore them Online service users personal information can be a gold mine for many big technological companies. According to network security and ethical hacking experts from the International Institute of Cyber Security, every time we visit a website we activate multiple […]
It hasn’t even been 15 days since details of the world’s biggest online private data dump were discovered by security researchers and now its second “installment” has posted online. As per the report from Heise.de, a German-language website, the first collection, which was published on January 17 and dubbed as Collections #1 had approx. 770 […]
California Justice believes that the figure proposed by Yahoo is insufficient to address all the drawbacks caused by 2014 data breach Lucy Koh, a federal court district judge in San Jose, California, rejected the proposed agreement for the data breach that Yahoo suffered back in 2014. According to network security specialist from the International Institute […]
The social network is paying some users to install a VPN that allows them to monitor all the activity of a smartphone Network security and ethical hacking specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security claim that Facebook has been secretly paying some of its users to install a VPN, so the social network can […]
Have you ever asked yourself the question: “So what if my VPN keeps logs?” Don’t worry. It’s a good question to ask. It means you’re actually curious about the nuances of data collection, management and how they affect you. In order to answer this question, we first have to delve into the inner workings of […]
The French authorities allege that the technological company is undertaking acts with serious lack of transparency Network security and ethical hacking specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security report that, in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the French National Commission of Informatics and Freedoms (CNIL) imposed a €50M fine to Google […]
A new security incident shakes this social network The social network Twitter has just announced the finding of a security flaw that provoked public exposure of the supposedly privacy protected tweets after making some changes in user accounts, as reported by experts in network security and ethical hacking from the International Institute of Cyber Security. […]
China is often suspected to sponsor hack attacks against organizations and agencies in the US or Europe. However, this time around China itself has become a victim of a security breach. Reportedly, an unprotected MongoDB has exposed personal and professional details of more than 202 million people. HackenProof’s security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered that resume files of […]
A 19-year old bug hunter has identified a flaw in the Android version of Microsoft’s Skype app, which is exploited can help the attacker access various app functions without needing to go through passcode verification for unlocking the phone. Once the phone is unlocked, the attacker can view everything from contacts to photos, send SMS […]
The main telecommunications companies in the U.S. pledged to stop selling their customer data, which has not happened yet Reports of cybersecurity and digital forensics experts from the International Institute of Cyber Security say that Ron Wyden, U.S. Senator, is promoting a campaign in the U.S. Congress to draft a law against the sale of […]
Data security and privacy are one of the hottest discussion points in the tech media. With the introduction of regulations like GDPR, tech giants are finding it challenging to let users easily access their own data whenever they want. What is Microsoft’s Project Bali? To make our access to a vast amount of data a […]