Zoom settles consumer claims over privacy for $85 Million
Settlement will pay up to $25 to paid Zoom subscribers covered by the class action litigation and up to $15 to individuals who aren’t eligible to submit a paid subscription claim.
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Hackers are using CAPTCHA techniques to scam email users
More email users fell for scams using CAPTCHA technology in 2020, a new report from security firm Proofpoint shows.
Israeli government raids NSO Group offices
Officials from multiple Israeli government agencies have raided today the offices of surveillance software vendor NSO Group.
Hacker downloads close to 300,000 Estonian personal ID photos
A hacker was able to obtain over 280,000 personal identity photos following an attack on the state information system.
QR Codes Are Here to Stay. So Is the Tracking They Allow.
Fueled by a desire for touchless transactions, QR codes popped up everywhere in the pandemic. Businesses don’t want to give them up.
Clubhouse Denies Data Breach Claims, No Users’ Phone Numbers Leaked
Clubhouse, the voice-based chat app, has denied allegations of a data breach that started doing rounds on the internet last week.
Cyberattack Shuts Down Services in Greece’s Second-Largest City
As hackers have stepped up cyber attacks on municipal services in a number of countries, Thessaloniki’s agencies were shut down over an electronic intrusion.
How smartphone data can be used to learn secrets
How an unregulated market for personal data is legal, and what it means for your own data.
President Biden Signs Executive Order Encouraging Greater Regulation of Tech and Communications Companies
On July 9, 2021, President Biden issued a far-reaching Executive Order seeking to fight market concentration and anticompetitive practices across the entire U.S. economy
Inside the Industry That Unmasks People at Scale
Unique IDs linked to phones are supposed to be anonymous. But there’s an entire industry that links them to real people and their address.
This tool tells you if NSO’s Pegasus spyware targeted your phone
The toolkit scans iPhone and Android backup files for evidence of a compromise.
Calls to end social media anonymity give platforms more power without actually fixing the problem
The online abuse the England football team received after the Euro 2020 final has pushed people towards drastic measures to stop it happening again: giving social media companies their legal identification.