Reports earlier this week revealed that fast food chain Sonic had been hacked, and that the credit and debit card around 5 million of their customers may have been stolen. Security website KrebsOnSecurity found that the information obtained from a Sonic Drive-In were being peddled on...
A recent report by Worldpay showed that consumers from Singapore, China, and Australia do not prefer to shop using their IoT devices due to privacy and hacking fears. In its Connected Consumer report, around 70% out of 6,043 respondents believe that the information they pass thru...
A German journalist recently found out how much information Tinder collects on its users when she requested a copy of her personal data from the site. The dating service, which is owned by Match.com, provided Judith Duportail around 800 pages of information which included her Facebook...
Earlier this week, messaging app Signal revealed plans to use Intel’s Software Guard Extensions (SGX) as an additional asset for privacy protection. SGX has been previously criticized for potentially being a route to unbreakable DRM, and for limiting the user’s freedom on his own machine. However,...
Last Tuesday, Chairman Raymund E. Liboro of the National Privacy Commission (NPC) said that the Data Privacy Act should not be used to prevent the processing and/or disclosure of personal information which is sanctioned under law. According to the NPC chair, questions on the legal basis...
A security researcher recently discovered an Internet Explorer bug that attackers can use to see anything that a user types in his URL address bar. Manuel Caballero says in a technical writeup that the bug can occur when IE loads a malicious HTML object and features...
Computer scientists from the universities of Luxembourg, Birmingham, and Oxford have come up with a solution for a privacy gap in end-to-end encryption. Dr. Jiangshan Yu, Professor Mark Ryan, and Professor Cas Cremers revealed that they have come up with DECIM (Detecting Endpoint Compromise in Messaging)...
According to documents published by the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Monday, the department plans to collected data on all the country’s immigrants including permanent residents and naturalized citizens. The Privacy Act System of Records from 1974 has been modified to include gathering...
Key updates to Apple’s browser, Safari are included in the release of macOS High Sierra – notably the capacity to turn off cross-site tracking from cookies and preventing ads from auto playing. Apple has also introduced a new differential privacy tech that collects information from...
Most online services nowadays aim to level with the AI personalization standards from Netflix and Amazon. Trivago, an international search engine for hotels have stepped up their game by acquiring AI startup Tripl. The learning machine analyzes social media profiles from users to suggest itineraries...