Orbitz, popular travel fare aggregator, recently disclosed that it may have been hit by a breach that could compromise the information of thousands of customers. The Expedia-owned company says that information on 880,000 credit cards may have been exposed from an older platform where names, payment...
In light of Facebook’s recent privacy fiasco, a new Chrome extension called Social Book Post Manager was recently released to help users automate the process of deleting their previous posts on Facebook. Included in the features of the extension is a list of filters that...
According to The Intercept, classified documents provided by Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA had already developed the capability to locate and identify Bitcoin users around the world. It was revealed that the agency was interested in targeting Bitcoin through a surveillance program codenamed OAKSTAR which...
A proposed class-action suit which accuses Facebook and Cambridge Analytica of negligence and violation of a California unfair competition law.was filed late last Tuesday by a Maryland resident in U.S. District Court in San Jose, California. Lawyer of the plaintiff John Yanchunis said that every Facebook...
According to a recent study by Spiceworks, 62% of businesses are currently using biometric authentication, and this is expected to go up to 90% 2020. The IT professional network added that fingerprint scanning is presently the most common type of biometric authentication, with 57% of...
The topic of data privacy laws in India received greater attention recently because of the issue involving the harvesting of Facebook user data by analytics firm Cambridge Analytica. Privacy advocates such as Apar Gupta said that although the Election Commission had issued guidelines to protect election...
Facebook recent privacy scandal involving the data breach of over 50 million individuals has prompted majority of users to re-examine how much information the social network is actually sharing about them. To help users who are not ready to quit Facebook altogether, CNBC has published a...
As reported by Forbes, a Georgia-based firm called Grayshift recently made a bold claim that they have been offering an iPhone passcode-cracking service to police departments and law enforcement divisions. The little-known company is also selling an iPhone unlocker tool called GrayKey that costs around $15,000...
Russia’s Supreme Court has reportedly compelled secure messaging app Telegram to hand over its encryption keys so that the Federal Security Service (FSB) can get access to user data without warrants. Telegram managers, however, refused and instead replied with a counter-suit which says that the...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Right to Be Forgotten In May 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union allowed the removal of the links to articles published online by newspaper La Vanguardia, detailing a real estate auction, from results pulled up...