According to The Inquirer last Tuesday, a new android ransomware called Leakerlocker jeopardizes user privacy by threatening to share personal information. The new android virus was discovered by McAfee computer security in the Google Play Store. It was lurking between two well-reviewed apps that have been...
A report from ZDNet last Wednesday showed customers that they can purchase USB chargers with a small 1018p camera or a GPS device. The USB camera automatically records videos when it recognizes movement, while the USB with GPS provides an electronic map for those without...
Police arrested a man in Rajasthan last Tuesday for allegedly leaking details to Jio’s user database. The suspect, Imran Chhimpa, was traced via an IP address from a posted link that claimed to provide personal user details. Jio is a telecom company run by India’s wealthiest...
In a report last Tuesday, tech website Daily Dot explored the how the Lumen Privacy Monitor, a free Android app that can tell users which apps collects personal information from your device, can protect the data on a user’s mobile phone. Created by researchers at the...
In a 2017 study published by the Electronic Frontiers Foundation (EFF), Amazon and WhatsApp got a low rating of 2 stars out of 5, just above telecommunications carriers AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon. According to EFF’s report, both technology companies employ the standard best practices of requiring...
A video of a couple emerging from a plane restroom was posted by Virgin Atlantic on their Facebook page last week. Taken by passenger David Eve, the video had previously gone viral on media company site LADBible with over 7.5 million views. Since the video...
Last Thursday, Hard Rock revealed that customer data from 11 of its properties may have been involved in Sabre’s "SynXis" breach. Sabre has created a consumer information site detailing the data that may have been compromised. The system breach ran from August 2016 to March 2017,...
Last week, the Australian government discovered that an insider was responsible for leaking Australian Medicare numbers on a Tor trading site. To address the issue, human services minister Alan Tudge and health minister Greg Hunt yesterday announced a review into Canberra's widely-used online Medicare lookup, the...
Telecom Bharti Airtel yesterday said that data breach is a "real threat" to businesses, and that the company takes its data security and customer privacy responsibility "very seriously." In the wake of the data breach, reports yesterday claimed that customer data, including mobile numbers and other...
Indian cricket star Sachin Tendulkar was called out on Monday after posting a tweet that asked people to share the phone numbers of their friends. Tendulkar tweeted: "Have friends with many excuses to not get fit? Tag them using #NoExcuses with their cities & mobile...