Xiaomi Devices Found Tracking And Recording Browsing Data Of Millions
Xiaomi has been tracking and recording an insane amount of private data, from user’s phone habits to queries in the […]
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94% of Those Who Pay the Ransom Get the Data Back
According to The State of Ransomware 2020 global study conducted earlier this year on behalf of Sophos, organisations that decide […]
Washington, D.C. Adds Security Requirements in New Data Breach Notification Law
Washington, D.C. amended its data breach notification law (D.C. Act 23-268) on March 26, 2020, expanding the definition of personal […]
Thunderbolt Flaws Expose Millions of PCs to Hands-On Hacking
The so-called Thunderspy attack takes less than five minutes to pull off with physical access to a device, and it […]
More than 160 million user records from 11 companies for sale on dark web
A new individual or group that appears to be a reincarnation of GnosticPlayers is offering millions of user records for […]
NHS contact-tracing app must not be released to public without privacy protections, MPs say
The NHS contact-tracing app must not be released in its current form without increased privacy and data protections, a parliamentary […]
Zoom Agrees to Step Up Security After New York Probe
New York state’s top prosecutor announces that the company Zoom would improve security measures, after flaws were detected as the […]
Adult Cam Site Exposed 10.88 Billion Records Online
As part of a search on the Shodan engine for unsecured databases, security review site Safety Detectives found that CAM4 […]
UK racing to improve contact-tracing app’s privacy safeguards
NHS officials are racing to introduce greater privacy safeguards for the contact-tracing app at the centre of the government’s lockdown […]
‘No data, security breach’: Aarogya Setu says after hacker claims ‘privacy of 90 million Indians at stake’
Aarogya Setu was alerted “by an ethical hacker of a potential security issue in the app”, which they discussed with […]
German Federal Agencies Publish Privacy and IT Security Requirements for Digital Health Applications
On April 21, 2020, the Regulation on the Requirements and Reimbursement Process for Digital Health Applications (DiGAV) entered into force […]
Google Play has been spreading advanced Android malware for years
Hackers have been using Google Play for years to distribute an unusually advanced backdoor capable of stealing a wide range […]