It has recently been reported that Yatra.com, an online travel booking platform, had been breached way back in 2013. According to breach notification website Have I Been Pwned, over 5 million records had been compromised, and sensitive information such as email and physical addresses, dates...
Brazil passed this week a draft legislation inspired by Europe’s GDPR that seeks to foster a better data protection environment online. Authored by congressman Milton Monti, the Bill seeks the creation of a general legal framework that will protect the data of individuals and businesses and...
Google and Mozilla both removed the Stylish browser from their add-on stores after receiving a report that it was logging users' browser histories and sending the data to remote servers. The ban was said to have been prompted by a report by software developer Robert Heaton...
Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright is reportedly using a chatbot named “Parker” to help their clients determine their exposure and obligations under the new data breach laws and regulations that will come into force on November 1 under the Personal Information Protection and Electronic...
EU regulators are reportedly using artificial intelligence to find possible violations to the GDPR in the privacy policies of 14 major tech firms, including Facebook, Alphabet, and Amazon. Researchers from the European Union Institute in Florence worked with an EU consumer organization to develop the...
Speaking at the International Institute of Communications Telecommunication and Media Forum last Wednesday, Australian Productivity Commission (PC) chair Peter Harris gave a number of suggestions on how transparency around consumer data can be increased. Included in Harris’ suggestions is a move that would compel companies to...
A recent study from Northeastern University disproved the rumors that tech companies are targeting ads using audio information obtained via the user’s phone microphone. However, it also found that ads may be targeted using information from screen and video recordings in some apps. One such app...
Cisco Talos researchers recently reported that the powerful Smoke Loader malware which has been active since 2011 has been upgraded with a new injection technique seen in the wild only a few days ago. The malware is often used to deliver malicious payloads such as TrickBot...
It was reported this week that the breach at web form and survey company Typeform has affected a number of organizations from budget hotel chain Travelodge to the UK’s Liberal Democrats party. Typeform had already notified its customers that an unknown attacker had accessed files in...
IBM is reportedly expressing its support for a digital trade agreement under the proposed data privacy law currently being worked on by a committee under Justice BN Srikrishna. IBM says that the agreement, which will permit data sharing on consent without compromising privacy, will promote...