Hacken’s Cyber Risk Research director Bob Diachenko revealed this week that a firm which handles political fundraisers for the Democratic Party has left a trove of personal data completely exposed online on an unsecured NAS device. Diachenko said that the breach affected names, phones, emails, addresses,...
An energy industry coalition sent European authorities this week a letter protesting a proposed ePrivacy regulation which it says would hurt business models in the clean energy sector. The group, composed of Eurelectric, smartEn, metering industry group ESMIG, the European Heat Pump Association (EHPA) and SolarPower...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a lawsuit this week against the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department today to determine if the police’s use of cell-site simulators in criminal investigations were justified. The online privacy rights group sought to to gain access to records about search...
Mozilla announced this week that starting with the recently released Firefox 63, its Tracking Protection feature will be enabled by default for all users. In a blog post, Mozilla said that in the future, Tracking Protection will have the ability to block not only JavaScript code,...
Apple’s Tim Cook is set to deliver remarks in support of strong privacy laws at a meeting of international privacy regulators in Brussels on Wednesday. Cook, who will be the keynote speaker at the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners, is expected to praise...
Software developer Nathaniel Suchy recently revealed a problem with Signal Desktop which exposes the key used to decrypt encrypted messages locally stored by the application. Suchy said that the messaging application automatically generates and stores the encryption key to a local file called %AppData%\Signal\config.json on...
Researchers from Oxford University recently warned that the data harvesting and sharing by almost 90 percent of apps on Google’s Play Store share data with its parent company, Alphabet. In a recently published paper, the researchers said that the data, which can include age, gender, location,...
A recent report revealed that around 4000 Swedes have had microchips implanted in their hands to speed up their daily routines. Chipping companies such as Biohax International, which currently dominates the market, say that they are having difficulty keeping up with the number of requests...
Japan’s Personal Information Protection Commission adopted a resolution on Monday ordering Facebook to implement measures that would prevent incidents such as the firm’s latest data breach. It is said that the PIPC is the first body to issue such a warning the social media giant....
ING announced this week that it has launched its Zero-knowledge Set Membership (ZKSM) solution which is a blockchain-based tool that provides advanced privacy features for their clients. The ZKSM is an upgrade to the company’s existing blockchain system, Zero-Knowledge Range Proof (ZKRP) which keeps client data...