British Airways admitted this week that an unauthorized party had accessed the data of around 380,000 customers. The airlines told the police that personal and financial details of customers who had booked using their website and mobile app from 10.58pm local time on August 21...
The European Commission launched last September 5 the procedure for the adoption of its adequacy decision on its data transfer deal with Japan. It was announced in a press release that Commissioner Jourová had already briefed the College on the next steps, and the Commission...
Researchers from 360 Netlab revealed that somewhere around 370,000 MikroTik routers have been hijacked through the CVE-2018-14847 security vulnerability. Even though a patch had already been released last August, around 7,500 routers were still caught directly forwarding user data, while 239,000 have had their Socks4 proxies...
According to a new report by the Pew Research Center, around 44% of Americans aged 18 to 29 say that they have deleted the Facebook app off their devices. Data from the research firm also showed that the recent scandals may have prompted around 54%...
AnchorFree, the company behind popular VPN Hotspot Shield, recently raised $295 million in funding despite VC investors’ aversion to companies associated with virtual private networks. The money raises the company’s total funding to $358 million, which reportedly outpaces any of its rivals. It is said that...
Mobile network industry body GSMA recently urged governments, particularly ones in the Asian region, to to "align" their data privacy laws to improve international data flows. The GSMA adds that better data flows are associated with increased global GDP and boost in trade. On the...
Justice Commissioner Věra Jourová revealed last Wednesday that Japan and the EU will be forging a reciprocal agreement recognizing each other’s data protection systems. In her tweet, Jourová said that the agreement will bring a lot of benefit to EU companies as it will facilitate the...
NSA privacy expert Jake Williams recently told CNBC that there is a low chance that a hacker would hack into an average person’s smart speakers. Williams explains that it would take a lot of work to get information that would not be worth it for...
In a study by the Polytechnic University showed that more than half of secondary school students in Hong Kong have been ‘doxxed’. Among the victims, around 16% said they felt stressed, and more than 20% said that they experienced mild and extremely severe depression and...
Security researcher Nitish Shah revealed to fellow expert Brian Krebs last week a huge leak of sensitive data from a company called mSpy. The company, which makes spy software for consumers, left a database containing passwords, call logs, text messages, contacts, notes and location data collected...