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Information mishandling, snooping and location tracking are often the ways in which users find their privacy violated online. Learn about these issues and how to avoid them in a great Security Today article:
Are you aware that GitHub has added WebAuthn support for biometric and security key logins? Learn more in this great Inquirer article:
Have you heard that spyware based on two-year-old AhMyth RAT has made it past Play Store's scans, despite not being anything special? Learn more in this interesting ZDNet article:
Have you heard that Google and Mozilla havestepped up their effortsto prevent Kazakhstan’s government from spying on citizens? What is your opinion on this? Learn more in this interesting article:
Have you heard about the recent leak affecting the hacking forum Cracked.to? Last Friday the forum's database of 321,000 members and 749,161 unique email addresses was leaked on rival site, RaidForums. Learn the details in this interesting article:
A British researcher has uncovered an ironic security hole in the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – right of access requests.
Are you aware that many organizations are questioning whether eliminating passwords as an authentication tool might augment their overall security posture? How do you feel about this?
Do you used Firefox or Chrome as your web browser? Are you aware that browser plug-ins can be a threat to your privacy?
Are you aware that you could be signing over the keys to your identity when filling out medical forms that promise to “anonymize” your information?
A new study reveals that you can be easily re-identified from almost any database, even when your personal details have been stripped out. Keep reading to learn the details. The data trail we leave behind us grows all the time. Most of it isn’t that interesting—the takeout meal you ordered, that shower head you bought online—but some of it is deeply personal: your medical diagnoses, your sexual orientation, or your tax records. The most common way public agencies protect our identities is anonymization. This involves stripping out obviously identifiable things such as names, phone numbers, email addresses, and so on. Data sets are also altered to be less precise, columns in spreadsheets are removed, and “noise” is introduced to the data. Privacy policies reassure us that this means there’s no risk we could be tracked down in the database.
Can you believe that as many as 4 million people have Web browser extensions that sell their every click? And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Did you know that Germany just banned its schools from using cloud-based productivity suites from Microsoft, Google, and Apple? The tech giants aren’t satisfying its privacy requirements with their cloud offerings, it warned. What are your thoughts?
Mozilla has introduced a lot of tracker blocking protections into Firefox lately. Now, it is planning a new feature that will let you see how many online snoopers you’ve successfully evaded.
Smartphones are a goldmine of sensitive data, and modern apps work as diggers that continuously collect every possible information from your devices.
Google and the University of Chicago Medical Center formed a partnership approximately two years ago with the goal of finding patterns in patients’ medical records for medicine and to better understand disease.
Mozilla has pledged to keep browsing fully private for its users, and with Firefox now becoming the only worthy alternative to Chromium-powered browsers, delivering on these promises is the only way to go.
Major players within the tech industry have long-opposed the idea of government access to users' messages and chat conversations -- now they're continuing the fight with an open letter to GCHQ (the UK's government communication headquarters) lambasting proposals that could allow officials to eavesdrop on encrypted chats.
A legal challenge to the EU-US Privacy Shield, a mechanism used by thousands of companies to authorize data transfers from the European Union to the US, will be heard by Europe’s top court this summer.
You're probably aware that Google keeps tabs on what you're up to on its devices, apps, and services—but you might not realize just how far its tracking reach extends, into the places you go, the purchases you make, and much more. It's an extensive set of data, but you can take more control over what Google collects about you and how long the company keeps it. Here's how.
Google revealed that it recently discovered a bug that caused a subset of its enterprise G Suite customers to have their passwords stored in an unhashed — albeit encrypted — form for about 14 years.
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