Last week, a Google security researcher announced in a tweet a proof-of-concept code for rooting iOS and Mac devices. Researcher Ian Beer, who is a part of Google’s Project Zero, also mentioned over Twitter last December 12 a memory corruption issue in Mac and iOS...
A recent tweet by video-on-demand website Netflix prompted a number of users to air some privacy concerns and question the kind of data the company may be collecting from them. Freedom of the Press Foundation’s Trevor Tim did not find the tweet humorous, and instead asked...
Uber revealed last Monday that the information of around 815,000 Canadians may have been affected by the data breach that had struck the company in 2016. The federal privacy commissioner revealed earlier this week that his office had formally opened an investigation on the breach which...
A recent study conducted by Ghostery revealed that around 79% of websites globally track their visitor’s data, while around 10% let third party companies have access to this data. The anti-tracking tool company published a graph that showed which websites tracked the most data. It...
A new Bitcoin Cash-based protocol called Cash Shuffle was released earlier this week. The software promises to provide users enhanced privacy capabilities by obfuscating BCH transactions by combining user funds. Unlike existing cryptocurrency mixing services where trust is placed on the operator, Cash Shuffle will...
Hewlett Packard recently released an emergency fix for a driver-level keylogger that came pre-installed in a number of HP laptop and tablet models. The bug in the Synaptics TouchPad driver, which was discovered by security researcher Michael Myng, was not enabled by default. However, it...
A first-of-its-kind news coverage project called Media Brain has recently raised privacy fears for people in China. Born out a partnership between the Alibaba Group and state-run Xinhua News Agency, the project is expected to collect data using billions of CCTVs, IoT devices, and other...
Last week, University of Birmingham researchers identified several security flaws in a number of mobile banking apps that could have put millions of users at risk of hacking. The researchers said that a technology called “certificate pinning”, used in apps of banks such as HSBC,...
According to the New York Times, executive branch lawyers have determined that the government can continue to legally spy under the Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) through late April, even without a new law. Section 702 permits US authorities to include...
According to a recent audit by the Homeland Security Inspector General, the medical records and other sensitive personal data of DHS employees are not being given adequate protections. The Inspector General said that the agency’s Office of Health Affairs did not meet federal requirements for...