It was revealed earlier this week that US telco giant Comcast had reportedly exposed the passwords of customers using Xfinity-provided wireless routers in plaintext online. According to the security researchers who reported the issue, anyone with the customer’s account number and street address number, which...
UK security researcher Robert Wiggins recently found that two servers of secure monitoring app TeenSafe had reportedly exposed the account details of tens of thousands of both parents and children. It was said that information such as email addresses, child’s device name, device unique identifier, and...
Director of IBM Research Arvind Krishna recently warned that quantum computers will be able to instantly break the strongest encryption available today and advised those who use it to protect their data to look at alternatives. Krishna added that it could be as soon as within...
The Federal Communications Commission said last Friday that it will be looking into the leak of customer location data from the website of a data aggregator LocationSmart. The agency was further prompted by Democratic senator Ron Wyden who pointed out that the information could have...
Monex-owned cryptocurrency exchange CoinCheck recently announced that it will be delisting 4 privacy-focused coins - Zcash, Dash, Augur and Monero. The move, which may have been prompted by increasing watchfulness of Japanese regulators on the industry, is seen as an attack on financial privacy by...
A good number of Indian organisations are reportedly still grappling to comply with EU’s stringent regulation which is set to take effect on May 25. With 99 articles and 173 recitals, the GDPR is expected to make a significant impact on the country as its...
The NRC recently reported that Amsterdam had violated privacy laws when it collected the Facebook data of around 65 thousand loitering youth in 2015. The city government had apparently performed a network analysis on the data which it should have reported to the Dutch Data...
Nuggets, a blockchain ecommerce and privacy ID platform, recently announced the release of their mobile app to iOS users for whitelisted users to enable initial testing. According to CEO Alastair Johnson, the Alpha app will give their users a chance to take back control of their...
Several US lawmakers met with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey last Thursday for a discussion on issues regarding data privacy and net neutrality. According to a Twitter spokesperson, Dorsey’s visit to Capitol Hill is part of a regular outreach by the company. Democratic senator Ed Markey tweeted...
It was reported last Thursday that the political consultancy firm in the middle of the Facebook privacy scandal had filed a Chapter 7 bankruptcy in the United States. Cambridge Analytica had been accused of misusing the data of up to 87 million Facebook users since 2014....