Lightning Security’s Jack Cable revealed last Thursday that a bug in LinkedIn’s Autofill plugin could have been exploited by an attacker to collect private profile data such as phone numbers and email addresses. Even though only whitelisted domains have access to this functionality, an attacker...
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov recently announced that he will be resisting Russia’s moves against privacy by launching a “digital resistance” where he will be funding pro-privacy tech organizations. Telegram was recently banned in Russia for not giving up private user data to the country’s federal security...
At a Toyota first-drive event this week, Avalon’s Executive Program Manager Mark DeJongh revealed that while Apple CarPlay would be available on the 2019 Avalon, the company is still not going to implement Android Auto due to privacy concerns. According to some sources, Google’s Android Auto...
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers recently revealed a new malware strain called ‘SquirtDanger’ which drains an infected device of all information on the user. The researchers report that organizations around the world have already been infected, including a Turkish university, an African telecommunications company and...
In a recently released white paper, Army Research Laboratory (ARL) scientists Benjamin S. Riggan, Nathaniel J. Short, and Shuowen Hu revealed the military efforts to develop AI facial recognition technology which will enable identification using thermal imaging devices. It is said that the technology will not...
Reports have recently revealed that cybersecurity expert Chris Vickery of UpGuard had found a public but unlisted Amazon S3 storage bucket containing the data of 48 million users scraped from various social media sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Zillow. The data had been gathered...
Facebook has reportedly started asking users in Europe and Canada for their consent to be identified on the platform using facial recognition. The move is in preparation for the EU’s upcoming data privacy law, and also to comply with Canada’s strict privacy rules. The new privacy...
It was reported last Tuesday that the US Supreme Court had dismissed the case between Microsoft and the US Justice Department over access to the software giant’s data stored in its Ireland servers. The CLOUD Act, which President Donald Trump had recently signed, rendered the legal...
According to a new survey conducted by VoIP provider Ooma, smart home systems are still considered to be a significant privacy concern for majority of consumers. The study showed that 72% of 2000 US consumers are still afraid that companies may misuse their personal data....
Researchers from cybersecurity firm Lookout warned last Monday that hackers are now using Android apps to conduct targeted surveillance in the Middle East. The apps were said to have been developed from surveillance-focused malware families: ViperRAT, Desert Scorpion, and FrozenCell. The malicious apps often work by...