Irish data protection commissioner liaises with European colleagues over Zoom concerns
The Data Protection Commission (DPC), the Irish data supervisory authority headed up by Helen Dixon, has asked other data protection […]
cybersecurity
Personal data of 115mn Pakistani mobile users go on sale on Dark Web
A Pakistani cybersecurity company has discovered a data dump of 115 million Pakistani mobile users’ data, which have been put […]
UK Cabinet Office at risk of further data breaches, review concludes
A government department admonished for publishing honours list details in error is at “significant risk” of making further and bigger […]
Beware voice controlled technologies they pose a cyber security risk
Voice controlled technologies represent a cyber security risk and that’s a problem as during the Covid-19 crisis as they are […]
Thousands of Android apps contain undocumented backdoors
A study has found that thousands of legitimate Android apps are taking liberties or installing with capabilities that users wouldn’t […]
Key Ring data leak exposes millions of user details
Key Ring, an app that lets people upload and store card details, has left the information of millions of users […]
Experts warn of privacy risk as US uses GPS to fight coronavirus spread
Use location data to fight coronavirus risks highlights the lack of safeguards for Americans’ personal data, academics and data scientists […]
Marriott says new data breach affects 5.2 million guests
Marriott says guests’ names, loyalty account information and other personal details may have been accessed in the second major data […]
Zoom is under privacy scrutiny from the NY Attorney General
The NY attorney general’s office sent a letter to Zoom asking what security measures the company has put in place […]
Personal details for the entire country of Georgia published online
A file containing personal information for 4,934,863 Georgians has been published on a hacker forum over the weekend. Personal information […]
Attack on Home Routers Sends Users to Spoofed Sites That Push Malware
Researchers are warning that a hack of Linksys and D-Link routers is redirecting users to malicious sites posing as COVID-19 […]
Quantum entanglement breakthrough could boost encryption, secure communications
Using quantum entanglement, a team of researchers has developed a new way to communicate via particles of light. A team […]