A study published by the Norwegian Consumer Council (PDF) investigated the means by which Facebook, Google and Microsoft collect user data. The survey found that these companies have enabled privacy-intrusive settings by default, using words that can be...
Firebase is a development platform for web and mobile applications. It provides cloud messaging, notifications, databases, analytics, and many back-end APIs. It was acquired by Google in 2014 and is welcomed by...
A British privacy and civil liberties organization found that the HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has collected more than 5.1 million British voice records. HMRC was accused of collecting these...
Flightradar24 can be said to be one of the most popular flight tracking services in the world. With Google Maps and Airline information, users can not only visually see the...
According to lawsuits filed by the Federal Court of the United States of Nevada, Tesla sued a former employee, claiming that he stole the company’s trade secrets and disclosed a...
Dixons Carphone, a well-known UK multinational telecommunications company, announced on the 13th that it is investigating a lot of customer data has been illegally accessed. The official description of the...
A threat intelligence analyst from Vertek Corporation told Bleeping Computer that he recently discovered that a spam botnet command and control (C&C) server had accidentally exposed at least 43 million...
According to Malaysian media, Malay Mail reports, the School Examination Analysis System (SAPS), launched by the Malaysian Ministry of Education, was forced to go offline after finding a security breach...
On Thursday, Facebook sent a notice to about 14 million users, stating that it found a software vulnerability that caused users to post private posts that were considered only visible...
Senior members of US Senate’s intelligence committee hope that CEOs of Facebook, Google and Twitter can attend public hearings to answer questions about platform security, including the relationship between these...
According to ZDNet, PageUp, an Australian-based human resource (HR) software company, has confirmed that its IT infrastructure was found to have abnormal activity last month, which may lead to leakage...
According to New York Times report, Facebook recently disclosed data sharing relationship with some equipment manufacturers. Now it is confirmed that this includes Chinese companies Huawei, Lenovo, Oppo, and TCL. Facebook and...
MyHeritage announced that the e-mail address and password information associated with the company’s 92 million accounts had been stolen by hackers. MyHeritage said that the company’s security administrator received a message...
Technology’s social networking giant, Facebook, has fallen into the storm of unprecedented public opinion in the company’s history because of unauthorized disclosure of user data and information and violations of...
According to ZDNet report, PumpUp in Ontario, Canada, issued a statement last week that its social health tracking application under the same name inadvertently exposed the user’s privacy and sensitive...
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