In a study by the Polytechnic University showed that more than half of secondary school students in Hong Kong have been ‘doxxed’. Among the victims, around 16% said they felt stressed, and more than 20% said that they experienced mild and extremely severe depression and...
Security researcher Nitish Shah revealed to fellow expert Brian Krebs last week a huge leak of sensitive data from a company called mSpy. The company, which makes spy software for consumers, left a database containing passwords, call logs, text messages, contacts, notes and location data collected...
San Francisco is reportedly launching a high-tech platform which can be used to track every homeless person in the city and identify their needs. Under the initiative of Mayor London Breed, the ONE System (Online Navigation and Entry System) will help alleviate San Francisco’s homeless...
Google argued this week that its data agreement with Mastercard does not violate customer privacy. It said that its Store Sales Measurement program only uses aggregated and highly-anonymized data to inform advertisers how well their online ads are performing. However, executive director of the Center for...
A hacker by the name of @joshua from the Fatal Error Crew had reportedly published on Pastebin the sensitive information of C&A customers that had been leaked by an attack on the company’s Brazil operations. @joshua had apparently exposed the data of around 36,000 customers, including...
InternetNZ Chief Executive Jordan Carter recently called on the government of New Zealand to improve its data privacy and protection efforts. Carter clarified that there are currently no laws holding NZ companies accountable for data leaks, which is why the Justice Select Committee has to...
A recent report by analyst firm Frost & Sullivan showed that Australians have the lowest amount of trust in the world for companies that handle and protect their data. The survey, commissioned by CA Technologies, polled around 1,000 consumers on their confidence in brands to appropriately...
In a recent survey conducted by Tele Columbus, only around one-third of German housing associations said that they were ready for the challenges that digitization is expected to bring. Such challenges will include the introduction of smart home features like smart metering. This will require...
Plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit have said that Premera Blue Cross had willfully destroyed evidence critical in its ongoing data breach case. The evidence in question was a computer and software logs from a security product that could have provided evidence that hackers had indeed...
Cybersecurity company Bitdefender recently warned against an “extremely powerful” strain of malware called Triout which may be carried be some apps on Google’s Play Store. It is said that the spy malware makes records of every call, logs SMS messages and every picture or video on...