Mailsploit – E-mail spoofing and code injection vulnerabilities
Mailsploit refers to a series of bugs found in e-mail clients that allow a potential attacker to spoof the e-mail […]
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China’s tax blacklist shames defaulters into repaying debts
China lists the names and personal details of 8.8 million debt defaulters on a public website. Those defaulters can’t fly or […]
Privacy of location tracking device owners threatened by ‘Trackmageddon’ flaws
A slew of online services used to manage GPS- and GSM-based location tracking devices have been found vulnerable to flaws […]
Digital Spying And Divorce In The Smartphone Age
Breaking up is hard to do, and spy tools are making it even harder. According to family lawyers, scorned spouses […]
Rash of data breaches forcing agencies to rethink how they verify employees’ identities
Joe Stuntz, a former policy lead for the OMB’s cyber and national security unit, said the future of identity management […]
India probes report on breach of national identity database
India on Thursday began investigating a report that access to its database of the identity details of more than 1 […]
Belgian privacy regulator threatens fines for eavesdropping apps
The Belgian Commission for the Protection of Privacy has threatened to take action against eavesdropping apps that listen for what […]
Internet Users in China Expect to Be Tracked. Now, They Want Privacy.
Chinese are demanding better protections even as the government and tech giants like Alibaba and Tencent gather ever more data. […]
Data Breach Affected More Than 240,000 Homeland Security Workers
The breach also affected non-DHS employees who communicated with the department’s inspector general. Source: Data Breach Affected More Than 240,000 […]
Researchers Discover Two Major Flaws in the World’s Computers
Called Meltdown, the first and most urgent flaw affects nearly all microprocessors made by Intel. The second, Spectre, affects most […]
‘European’ Data Privacy Standards Implemented in Laws Outside Europe
The implementation of ‘European’ (2nd generation) data privacy principles in laws outside Europe continues to be substantial, including in high-GDP […]
Privacy in 2018: Expect the unexpected
Making predictions for the year ahead is possibly as desirable as unreliable. In a world of unlimited data and advanced […]