A security researcher named Paulos Yibelo revealed this week that the names and location of Hotspot Shield users can be exposed by the information disclosure bug in the privacy service. According to Yibelo, the bug found in the web server installed by Hotspot Shield leaks information...
According to researchers from security company UpGuard, around 12,000 influencers from platforms such as YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, and Twitch had their sensitive information exposed by a French marketing firm called Octoly. The data breach leaked the true identities, street addresses, apartment numbers, phone numbers, email addresses,...
It was revealed last Monday that healthcare company Aetna, who was recently embroiled in a privacy issue, is suing its legal support firm Kurtzman Carson Consultants LLC for $20 million. Last month, Aetna paid $17 million to settle a federal class-action lawsuit which accused it of...
Researchers from mobile security firm Wandera recently said that they were able to triangulate a Strava app user’s location even if it has been set to private. Strava’s “privacy zone” feature allows users to mask their fitness activities from other users on the service. However, the...
Telecoms provider Swisscom revealed earlier this week one of its external sales partners had been breached and that customer details may have been compromised. The breach, which was found to have happened late last year, may have exposed “non-sensitive” data such as names, addresses, telephone numbers...
A high severity vulnerability was recently identified in popular grammar checking extension Grammarly, by Tavis Ormandy, a researcher at Google’s Project Zero. Ormandy said that the Chrome extension exposed the user’s private documents and data to virtually any website. A bug report was filed last...
Last Tuesday, Justice DY Chandrachud said that "mere possibility of misuse will not lead to striking down a legislation". As one of the Supreme Court's five-judge bench hearing the Aadhaar privacy case brought by senior lawyer Kapil Sibal, Justice Chandrachud questioned the level of acceptable...
Last Tuesday, Parliamentary Secretary for Home Affairs Amrin Amin assured the public that strict protocols are in place with regards to police camera footage access. At present, a wide range of data is already being collected by PolCam 2.0 via 5000 CCTVs installed in various locations...
Fitness tracking app company Strava recently confirmed that they have disabled a key tracking feature in their app. The Segments feature was first noticed to have been offline by users from Reddit. According to the company, they are currently reviewing the feature which was designed...
Chief scientist at McAfee cybersecurity Raj Samani recently explained that the upcoming EU GDPR may end up protecting scammers and spammers if it kills off the WHOIS protocol. WHOIS is a lookup service used to reveal the contact details of the owner of a domain...