UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office recently announced the first projects that will be funded by the ICO Grants Programme which was launched in June 2017. The projects will be focusing on tools for children’s online privacy, medical data sharing, and the protection of pseudonymised data and personal...
Researchers from UCLA's Anderson School of Management and Washington State University explained in a draft research paper how a person’s home can be established just by studying GPS coordinates transmitted by his mobile phone. The researchers obtained their data from a company called Safegraph which gathers...
The Federal Communications Commission is set to approve a TV ad standard that will allow broadcasters to harvest viewing data on their users which can be used to fine-tune ad targeting. This has set off some worries with privacy advocates, since broadcasters are not bound by...
Another factory app which pose a huge security risk to OnePlus phone users has been identified by a security researcher who uses the handle “Elliot Alderson”. The same researcher previously found a pre-installed app called EngineerMode in OnePlus phones that was capable of rooting the...
Last Thursday, Forever 21 gave an update on its hacking incident which had recently surfaced. The company now reveals that some credit card numbers and transaction details from March 2017 and October 2017 may have been stolen. When asked for a comment after the story...
Earlier this week, users reported that Alibaba’s UC Browser had apparently been taken down from Google’s Play Store. Many suspect that the removal had been prompted by reports accusing the browser of harvesting personal data of Indian users, then sending it back to a server...
Several security researchers recently said that session replay scripts may pose a major privacy threat which is akin to someone looking over the user’s shoulder. Researchers Steven Englehardt, Gunes Acar and Arvind Narayanan gave the statement after studying several session replay service providers including Yandex, FullStory,...
A Chrome extension called Browser-Secure has recently been discovered to be gathering details from users’ Facebook and LinkedIn accounts in secret, which it will then send to a remote server. The extension uses maladvertising tactics to promote itself. A user may be led to a site...
Clothing company Forever 21 is currently investigating a possible data breach that may have exposed their customers’ contact and payment information. The retailer was alerted by a third party last Tuesday regarding the unauthorized access of payment card data at a number of their outlets. Forever...
Cisco Talos researchers have recently identified several flaws with the Foscam C1 Indoor HD Camera that can be exploited by hackers to gain remote access to the device. The researchers found issues in the device’s webService DDNS client code execution, firmware upgrades, softAP configuration, device-to-device communications,...