Bell, Canada’s largest telecoms group, is reportedly planning to collect more personal information from its customers. Last December, Bell Canada began asking its customers for permission to track everything they do using their home and mobile phones, internet, television, apps and all other services they...
The Twitter account of conservative Canadian senator Linda Frum was hacked last Sunday by an unknown group of hackers who also tweeted out her personal information including her drivers licence and some racial slurs. The motive of the hackers, who refered to themselves as the “spank...
Apple recently put up an ad that takes a shot at Google and Amazon on the side of a hotel overlooking the Las Vegas Convention Center where this year’s CES will be held. The ad, which took up 13 floors of building, says : “What...
German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer promised this week to provide clarity on the massive data breach that had exposed the personal data and documents of Chancellor Angela Merkel and hundreds of other German politicians and public figures. German political parties are reportedly criticizing the BSI which...
Singapore Airlines revealed last Friday that the personal details of around 280 KrisFlyer members may have been leaked by a bug affecting its website. A SIA spokesperson said that the leaked information may have included names, e-mail addresses, account numbers, membership tier statuses, KrisFlyer miles and...
HP is set to debut at CES 2019 this week the EliteDisplay E243p Sure View Monitor which is equipped with the SureView privacy technology. SureView uses a combination of proprietary HP technology with 3M’s optical films to prevent off-angle viewing. Once activated, the feature brings down...
Hotel giant Marriott unveiled Friday last week that according to further investigation, the data of around 383 million customers had been compromised in the Starwood hacking incident. The new figure is slightly lower than the 500 million which the hotel previously divulged. However, this is still...
TechCrunch recently discovered that a popular app called “Twinning” had been leaking user-submitted images due to an unsecured Amazon Web Services storage bucket. The app, made by PopSugar, uses facial recognition to find celebrity look alikes based on user photos. However, TechCrunch said that the user...
Addressing Huawei employees this week, founder Ren Zhengfei said that the company will be focusing more on cyber security and privacy protections, in addition to manufacturing reliable products. Ren said that the company will work to create products that have good defensive capability to keep business...
In a blog post this week, BlankMediaGames (BMG) admitted that it had been hit by a data breach which exposed the personal details of around 7.6 million of its users. An unknown individual had reportedly sent a copy of the stolen information to DeHashed, a commercial...