The French data protection watchdog CNIL announced a fine of 50 million euros ($57 million) for US search giant Google under GDPR.The French data protection watchdog CNIL announced a fine of 50 million euros ($57 million) for US search giant Google under GDPR. “On 21 January 2019, the CNILâs restricted committee imposed a financial penalty […]
A bug in the Twitter app for Android may have had exposed tweets, the social media platform revealed on Thursday. The bug in the Android Twitter app affects the âProtect my Tweetsâ option from the accountâs âPrivacy and safetyâ settings that allows viewing user’s posts only to approved followers. People who used the Twitter app […]
By using multi-gesture trackpad along with Safari browser in MacBook Pro, one can view sensitive data which is cached in your Safari browser. (Note: This is not a back button browsing vulnerability) I figured out this issue while playing around with Safari browser, looks like the most recent activity of any authenticated or un-authenticated website is stored in […]
German watchdog is going to ask Facebook changes to protect privacy and personal information of its users. The news was first reported by the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag, German regulators are going to request Facebook changes in its platforms aimed at protecting privacy and personal data of its users. The German watchdog want to […]
New thunderclouds on Facebook, the social network giant is accused of tracking non-users via Android apps. According to a report presented by Privacy International yesterday at 35C3 hacking conference held in Germany, the list of Android apps that send tracking and personal information back to Facebook includes dozens of apps including Kayak, Yelp, and Shazam, “Facebook routinely tracks users, non-users […]
The latest version of Google OS, Android Pie, implements significant enhancements for cybersecurity, including a stronger encryption and authentication. Google experts worked on OS hardening and the implementation of anti-exploitation mechanisms with a great attention to the user privacy. The tech giant updated the File-Based Encryption implementing the support for external storage media, it also […]
Researcher Terence Eden discovered that the permissions dialog when authorizing certain apps to Twitter could expose direct messages to the third-party. The flaw is triggered when apps that require a PIN to complete the authorization process instead of the using the OAuth protocol. The expert discovered that some permissions such as that to access direct messages, remained […]
New problems for Facebook, the social network giant announced that a bug related to Photo API could have allowed third-party apps to access usersâ photos. Facebook announced that photos of 6.8 Million users might have been exposed by a bug in the Photo API allowing third-party apps to access them.  The bug impacted up over 870 […]
Google announced it will close the consumer version of Google+ before than originally planned due to the discovery of a new security flaw. Google will close the consumer version of Google+ in April, four months earlier than planned. According to G Suite product management vice president David Thacker. the company will maintain only a version designed […]
Security experts at HackenProof are warning Open Elasticsearch instances expose over 82 million users in the United States. Experts from HackenProof discovered Open Elasticsearch instances that expose over 82 million users in the United States. Elasticsearch is a Java-based search engine based on the free and open-source information retrieval software library Lucene. It is developed in Java […]