Sensitive Data Leak From Baidu Apps Allows Lifetime User Tracking According To Researchers
About 1.4 billion people worldwide were affected by the data leak from Baidu and other apps.
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Study Shows Robot Vacuum Cleaners Can Be Hacked to Spy on People
By modifying LiDAR sensors on robot vacuum cleaners, hackers can use it for LidarPhone attack and listen to private conservation for extracting sensitive information.
U.S. Schools Are Buying Cellebrite Phone-Hacking Tech
Schools in the U.S. are purchasing phone surveillance tools from Cellebrite and companies that offer similar tools used by FBI.
Cloudflare and Apple design a new privacy-friendly internet protocol
Cloudflare and Apple say they’ve developed a new internet protocol that will make it far more difficult for internet providers to know which websites you visit.
Court orders encrypted email biz Tutanota to build a backdoor in user’s mailbox
Court in Germany last month ordered Tutanota to help investigators monitor the contents of a user’s encrypted mailbox.
US Congress passes new IoT cybersecurity law
Congress recently made significant progress toward greater IoT security in the United States when it enacted the Internet of Things Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020.
Chinese embassy blames hackers for retweet of Trump’s claim that Democrats cheated in election
The Chinese embassy in the U.S. said its Twitter account was hacked after it retweeted a baseless claim from President Donald Trump that the Democrats cheated in the election.
Premiere security firm FireEye says it was breached by nation-state hackers
FireEye, a $3.5 billion top cybersecurity company has been hacked by a well-endowed nation-state.
Class action suit launched against Dell after data breach led to years of scam calls
A proposed class action suit has been launched against Dell Technologies on behalf of thousands of Canadians whose personal information was compromised in a data breach.
Trump admin mulls blocking cloud firms from countries like China
A proposed executive order that could keep American cloud computing companies out of certain foreign countries is being circulated within the Trump administration.
Nation-state backed hackers going after COVID vaccine supply chain
Cyber attackers have targeted the cold supply chain needed to deliver COVID-19 vaccines, according to a report detailing a sophisticated operation likely backed by a nation-state.
Twitter data breach decision due on December 17
Despite “very divergent views” between EU data protection authorities over a case of data breaches by Twitter, a final decision […]