privacy

Pierluigi Paganini September 10, 2018
A growing number of iOS apps collect and sell location data

A growing number of iOS apps currently collect location data, WiFi network IDs and other data, from iPhone users and sell them to monetization firms. A group of security researchers that developed the popular Guardian mobile firewall app revealed that a growing number of iOS apps currently collect location data, WiFi network IDs and other data, from […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 08, 2018
Privacy-oriented Linux OS Tails 3.9 is out, what’s new?

The popular Debian-based distribution Tails “The Amnesiac Incognito Live System” is out. The Tails 3.9 is available online with the biggest updates this year. A new version of the popular Debian-based distribution Tails “The Amnesiac Incognito Live System” is out. The Tails version 3.9 is available online, the privacy-oriented operating system gets its biggest update, many […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 04, 2018
Google paid million dollars to track offline purchases using Mastercard Data

Google has paid Mastercard millions of dollars to access offline transactions of its users, the news was revealed by Bloomberg. New problems for Google, experts discovered a secret agreement of the tech giant with Mastercard to track user purchases offline. Google has paid Mastercard millions of dollars to access offline transactions of its users. The embarrassing […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 20, 2018
Twitch bug may have exposed some users messages to others

A glitch in the live streaming platform Twitch may have exposed some of its users’ private messages to other users. The company is notifying affected users. The live streaming platform Twitch warning users that a glitch may have exposed some of their private messages to other users. The company sent out the notifications to some broadcasters informing them that […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 14, 2018
Google tracks users’ movements even if they have disabled the “Location History” on devices

According to the AP, many Google services on both Android and iPhone store records of user location even if the users have disabled the “Location History”. According to a recent investigation conducted by the Associated Press, many Google services on both Android and iPhone devices store records of user location data, and the bad news […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 13, 2018
Facebook faces ÂŁ500,000 fine in the U.K. over Cambridge Analytica scandal

Facebook has been fined ÂŁ500,000 ($664,000) in the U.K. for its conduct in the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal. Facebook has been fined ÂŁ500,000 in the U.K., the maximum fine allowed by the UK’s Data Protection Act 1998, for failing to protect users’ personal information. Political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica improperly collected data of 87 million Facebook users […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2018
A Samsung Texting App bug is sending random photos to contacts

Some Samsung devices are randomly sending photos taken with the camera to contacts in the address book without permission. Do you have a Samsung smartphone? There is something you need to know. Some devices are randomly sending photos taken with the camera to contacts in the address book without permission. The problem affected Galaxy S9 and S9+ […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2018
The Social network giant Facebook confirms it shared data with 61 tech firms after 2015

On Friday, Facebook provided a 748-page long report to Congress that confirms the social network shared data with at least 61 tech firms after 2015. This is the worst period in the history of the social network, now Facebook admitted to having shared users’ data with 61 tech firms. The problem is that Facebook allowed tech companies […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 30, 2018
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. A bug on the Nametests.com exposed data of over 120 million users who took personality quizzes on Facebook, the good news is that the flaw was addressed as part of the Facebook’s Data Abuse Bounty Program launched […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 26, 2018
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 heard about stealing information through blinking hard drive lights and computer speakers but would you believe the battery in your cell phone can also leak potentially sensitive information? Researchers at Technion Center for Security Science and Technology (CSST), Hebrew […]