The House Appropriations Committee has reached a decision to raise the standards for government access to emails, data, and texts documented in the cloud, according to a report last Friday. The committee adopted language from Rep. Kevin Yoder’standalone Email Privacy Act, using it for the the...
Last Friday, Wickr cryptographer Joël Alwen announced that customers can now have the option to make conference calls that are encrypted and forward-secure. Encryption for conference calls have previously been a problem, primarily because of multi-party key management. Other companies like Signal and WhatsApp have...
A new infostealer named Ovidiy Stealer is being sold by a Russian-speaking malware developer named TheBottle, according to reports last Friday. TheBottle started selling the malware on a Russian website in June, and has also advertised it on different cyber crime sites. The new malware version...
The information of around 547,000 health insurance plan holders were carelessly copied and removed by a Bupa employee, according to a report last Thursday. Included in the breach were names, birth dates, citizenship, as well as administrative and contact information. Medical and financial data were...
The Dutch government voted in favor of the new Intelligence and Security Act which increases the authorities’ surveillance powers, according to a report last Thursday. The new Intelligence and Security Act allows the police leeway to pursue even the relatives of terror suspects and and serious...
An estimated 1,529 patients were informed by Detroit Medical Center (DMC) of a data breach that involved their private health information. In a statement made by DMC last Thursday, the breach was caused by an employee of a staffing agency that was contracted by the hospital....
Last Thursday, privacy advocates criticized the Trump administration's plan to require face scans for citizens boarding international flights. Aimed at tracking overstaying citizens better, the government announced that it is ready to use face recognition technology on its citizens. According to the Department of Homeland Security...
Uber has announced on Thursday that it has released a new differential open-source privacy tool that allows analysts to search large amounts of data without showing individual information included in the search. The ride hailing company recognized the need to gather trip information in a more...
Last Thursday, Australia's Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) has reported 18 data breaches to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC). The data covers 5 years of financial information dating from July 2012. The information revealed that there were millions of suspicious cyber...
Leaders of Europe’s major data protection authorities said on Thursday that employers should avoid accessing their workers social media profiles to screen them on a general basis. They also noted that employees must not be forced to accept Facebook friend requests from bosses. The statement was...