Google sued over deceptive location tracking
Four Attorneys General (AG) from the District of Columbia and the states of Indiana, Texas, and Washington have filed separate lawsuits …
Privacy
Microsoft warns of phishy OAuth apps
Microsoft is warning Office 365 users to watch out for a phishy emails asking you to install an app called Upgrade. The app requests …
Tax scam emails are alive and well as US tax season starts
Many countries have taxation forms with names that have entered the general vocabulary, notably the abbreviations of documents that …
UK’s Privacy Tsar Mounts Fierce Defense of End-to-End Encryption
The UK’s privacy watchdog has defended end-to-end encryption (E2EE) following a government campaign lobbying for a halt to further …
Data Privacy Day: Know your rights, and the right tools to stay private
Not all data privacy rights are the same. There’s the flimsy, the firm, the enforceable, and the antiquated, and, unfortunately, much of …
Privacy is for paedophiles, UK government seems to be saying while spending £500k demonising online chat encryption
The British government’s PR campaign to destroy popular support for end-to-end encryption on messaging platforms has kicked off, under the …
Open Subtitles breach: The dangers of password reuse
Popular website Open Subtitles has been breached. The impact so …
Campaign launched to delay social media end-to-end encryption
The many issues surrounding end-to-end encryption (E2EE) are ever-present. They usually spring up when something that could potentially …
Bug in Safari browser leaks personal identifiers and browsing activity
The bug stems from an issue identified in Apple’s application programming interface IndexedDB, which stores data on a browser. This API …
Serious Security: Apple Safari leaks private data via database API – what you need to know
Researchers at browser identification company FingerprintJS recently found and disclosed a fascinating data leakage bug in Apple’s web …
OAIC wants stronger accountability measures in upcoming revised Privacy Act
The Office of Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has called for more data accountability measures across the board in light of the …
Top Illicit Carding Marketplace UniCC Abruptly Shuts Down
A top underground market for buying and selling stolen credit-card details, UniCC, has announced it’s shutting down operations. The site …
TransCredit exposed financial data of half a million Americans and Canadians
TransCredit is a Jacksonville, Florida-based business credit reporting agency for the transportation industry. The IT security researchers …
The Facebook Pixel Hunt aims to unravel Facebook’s tracking methods. Will you join?
Browser developer Mozilla has announced a research project to provide insights into, and data about, a space that’s opaque to …