privacy

Pierluigi Paganini April 03, 2018
Grindr shared people’ HIV status with other companies

An analysis conducted by the Norwegian research nonprofit SINTEF revealed that the popular Grindr gay dating app is sharing its users’ HIV status with two other companies. Grindr gay-dating app made the headlines again, a few days ago an NBC report revealed that the app was affected by 2 security issues (now patched) that could have exposed […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2018
Grindr gay-dating app exposed millions of users’ private data, messages, locations

According to an NBC report, the Grindr gay-dating app was affected by 2 security issues (now patched) that could expose the information of its more than 3 million daily users. Every day we read of a new data breach, in some cases, exposed data could have a severe impact on the victim. According to an NBC report, the Grindr […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 26, 2018
Facebook collected call and SMS data from Android users if not explicitly forbidden

After the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook made the headlines again, the company collected users’ Android call and SMS metadata for years. The Cambridge Analytica case it raised the discussion about the power of social networks and the possibility of their abuse for the conditioning of political activities. The non-professionals have discovered how important their digital experience […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 22, 2018
Zuckerberg on Cambridge Analytica case: we made mistakes

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday commented the Cambridge Analytica case, he admitted the company made mistakes. Finally, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday commented the Cambridge Analytica case, he admitted that his company has failed in protecting its users, but he pointed out that the company has already adopted necessary measures to prevent future […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 20, 2018
Supreme Court in Russia ruled Telegram must provide FSB encryption keys

A Supreme Court in Russia ruled Telegram must provide the FSB with encryption keys to access users’ messaging data to avoid being blocked. Bad news for Telegram, a Supreme Court in Russia ruled the company must provide the FSB with encryption keys to access users’ messaging data. If Telegram will refuse to comply the request the authorities […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 19, 2018
Facebook confirms Cambridge Analytica stole its data and used it to influence US voters

The commercial data analytics company Cambridge Analytica allegedly used data harvested by Facebook to target US voters in the 2016 Presidential election. A team of academics had collected a huge amount of user data and shared the information with Cambridge Analytica which is a commercial data analytics company that allegedly used it to target US […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 15, 2018
VPN leaks affect 3 Major VPN vendors, only Hotspot Shield promptly fixed it

The website VPNMentor discovered that IP leak issues in three major VPN vendors, only Hotspot Shield VPN promptly fixed it. The website VPNMentor decided to hire a group of hackers to test popular virtual private networks (VPN) for vulnerabilities that can pose risk for the users. The results of the tests revealed that the solutions evaluated by the […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 06, 2018
Facebook improves link security infrastructure by implementing HSTS Preloading

Facebook has implemented HSTS preloading that instructs a browser to always use SSL/TLS to communicate with eligible websites. Facebook has upgraded its link security infrastructure to include HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) preloading that instructs a browser to always use SSL/TLS to communicate with eligible websites. Facebook and Instagram links will automatically update from HTTP […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 28, 2018
A vulnerability in Facebook exposed email and details of page administrator

The security researcher Mohamed Baset discovered a vulnerability in Facebook that exposed email and other details of a page administrator. Facebook has recently addressed an information disclosure vulnerability discovered by the security researcher Mohamed Baset that exposed page administrator. According to Baset, the flaw is a “logical error” that he discovered after receiving an invitation […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 24, 2018
Paypal issue allows disclosure of account balance and recent transactions

Paypal issue allows for enumeration of the last four digits of payment method and for the disclosure of account balance and recent transactions of any given PayPal account. Introduction This post details an issue which allows for enumeration of the last four digits of payment method (such as a credit or debit card) and for […]