Mozilla announced that Firefox 58, which was released this week, was not only built with a number of performance enhancements, but also includes fixes for security flaws present in the previous version. Mozilla says that Firefox 58’s Tracking Protection feature, which was first implemented in...
Last Tuesday, BCE Inc. admitted that hackers were able to breach their systems and had stolen the data of around 100,000 customers. The data includes information such as names and email addresses. Bell spokesperson Marc Choma assured that no credit card or banking information had been...
It was found through a recent investigation by a Quartz reporter that Google is still able to use an Android phone’s Bluetooth to collect location-related data even if the user has turned it off. Quartz reported that Google is able to collect the unique identifier codes...
A fine totalling to 141 million won ($130,000) was handed down by the South Korean government to eight companies, namely Upbit, Ripple4y, Coinpia, Youbit, Korbit, Coinone and Coinplug, as well as cryptocurrency wallet service Eyalabs for not providing sufficient data protection for its users. The investigation,...
Last Tuesday, DuckDuckGo announced that it has included a tracker blocker and a number of other privacy features in its revamped line of mobile apps and browser extensions for Android, iOS, Chrome, Firefox and Safari. CEO Gabe Weinberg says that the company’s goal ever since...
Security testing company Checkmarx recently revealed that a vulnerability on Tinder that could allow hackers to snoop on a user’s photos and swipe activities. The bug, which is based on an HTTP connection and a predictable HTTPS response size, enables attackers to decode encryption signatures....
A security company called Pradeo reported last week that several Sega games for Android: Sonic Dash, Sonic the Hedgehog Classic, and Sonic Dash 2: Sonic Boom had been leaking the sensitive data of around 120 million to 600 users who had downloaded it from Google’s...
UK charity Privacy International recently warned that the privacy rights of every person in the world will be endangered should Microsoft loses its appeal regarding the seizure of its data on its Ireland servers by US authorities. The statement was made in an amicus brief...
It has been reported that companies are now spending millions to become compliant to EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which is set to take effect in May this year. Companies who do not comply to the EU law, which has a number of technically...
Justice Caroline Costello of the Irish High Court recently announced that she will be taking time to determine what questions to present to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) with regards to the EU-US privacy case involving Facebook and activist Max Schrems. The...