privacy

Facebook Quiz app NameTests left 120 Million users’ data exposed online

Experts discovered a third-party quiz app, called NameTests, that was found exposing data of up to 120 million Facebook users.…

6 years ago

One more reason to hate your cellphone battery when it sends private data to the bad actors

Security Researchers demonstrated how a "poisoned" cellphone battery in smartphones can be leveraged to "infer characters typed on a touchscreen We've…

6 years ago

UK Tax Agency HMRC has recorded the voice tracks of 5.1 Million Brits

The UK-based privacy group Big Brother Watch revealed that the British tax agency HMRC has recorded the voice of over…

6 years ago

Vulnerabilities in Fredi Wi-Fi baby monitor can be exploited to use it a spy cam

Vulnerabilities in Fredi Wi-Fi baby monitor could be exploited by a remote unauthenticated attacker to control it and spy on…

6 years ago

Facebook confirms privacy settings glitch in a new feature exposed private posts of 14 Million users

Facebook admitted that a bug affecting its platform caused the change of the settings of some 14 million users, potentially…

6 years ago

MyHeritage data breach – 92.3 million user credential exposed

A security researcher discovered email addresses and hashed passwords of roughly 92.3 million Myheritage users stored on a private server outside…

6 years ago

NYT: Facebook APIs gave device makers deep access to user data. FB disagrees

  Facebook APIs granted access to the data belonging to FB users to more than 60 device makers, including Amazon,…

6 years ago

Researchers disclosed details of EFAIL attacks on in PGP and S/MIME tools. Experts believe claims are overblown

EFAIL attacks - Researchers found critical vulnerabilities in PGP and S/MIME Tools, immediately disable and/or uninstall tools that automatically decrypt…

6 years ago

Critical Flaws in PGP and S/MIME Tools – Immediately disable tools that automatically decrypt PGP-encrypted email

Researchers found critical vulnerabilities in PGP and S/MIME Tools, immediately disable and/or uninstall tools that automatically decrypt PGP-encrypted email. If…

6 years ago

UK mobile operator EE left a critical code system exposed with a default password

The EE operator, the British largest cell network in the UK with some 30 million customers, has left a critical…

6 years ago

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