Pierluigi Paganini
November 12, 2019
New problems for Facebook, it seems that the social networking giant is secretly using the camera while iPhone users are scrolling their feed. Is this another privacy issue for Facebook? The iPhone users Joshua Maddux speculates that Facebook might be actively using your camera without your knowledge while you’re scrolling your feed. Maddux published footage […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 08, 2019
DNA-testing startup Veritas Genetics disclosed a security breach that exposed customer information, but genetic information, health records are not affected. Veritas Genetics is a whole genome sequencing company that provides actionable insights for a healthier life and family, it offers whole-genome sequencing for $599. The company announced that it recently discovered authorized access to its customer-facing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 06, 2019
Facebook disclosed a new security incident, the social network giant admitted that app developers may have accessed its group users’ data. Facebook disclosed another security incident, the company revealed that roughly 100 app developers may have improperly accessed users’ data in certain Facebook groups. Let’s understand how it is possible. The company explained that before […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 02, 2019
Proton Technologies announced this week that it has made available the source code of its popular ProtonMail iOS App. The Proton Technologies firm continues to propose initiatives aimed at ensuring the transparency of its ProtonMail applications, this week it announced the availability of the source code of its popular ProtonMail iOS App. Recently the cybersecurity […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 01, 2019
Facebook has agreed to pay a fine of $643,000 (500,000 pounds) in the privacy case stemming from the Cambridge Analytica scandal. In July 2018, Facebook has been fined £500,000 ($664,000) in the U.K. for its conduct in the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal. Facebook has been fined £500,000 in the U.K., the maximum fine allowed by the UK’s Data […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 14, 2019
New problems for Apple, most of its users likely ignore that the company is sharing iOS web browsing data on some of them to Chinese giant Tencent. Most Apple users likely don’t know that the tech giant is sending iOS web browsing data on some of them to the Chinese giant Tencent. The news is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 12, 2019
Leafly, a cannabis information platform, suffered a data leak that exposed the personal information of some of its customers. Leafly, the world’s leading cannabis resource, informed its customers via email that has suffered a data leak. On September 30, the company discovered that customer The company discovered on September 30 that a secondary database was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 10, 2019
Maintainers at the Tor Project have removed from its network more than 800 relay servers running outdated and EOL versions of the Tor software. Currently, the Tor network is composed of more than 6000 relays, some of them running outdated Tor software versions (in some cases back to the 0.2.4.x versions). Other relays are running […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 09, 2019
Twitter admitted having “inadvertently” used phone numbers and email addresses, collected for security purposes, for advertising. Twitter apologized to have used phone numbers and email addresses, privided by the users for security purposes, for advertising. According to the social media company, data used for account authentication were also matched with advertisers’ database to improve the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 05, 2019
Researcher discovered a logical flaw in the Signal messaging app for Android that could be exploited by a malicious caller to force a call to be answered at the receiver’s end without interaction. Google Project Zero white-hat hacker Natalie Silvanovich discovered a logical vulnerability in the Signal messaging app for Android that could be exploited […]
