Last Thursday, Forever 21 gave an update on its hacking incident which had recently surfaced. The company now reveals that some credit card numbers and transaction details from March 2017 and October 2017 may have been stolen. When asked for a comment after the story...
Earlier this week, users reported that Alibaba’s UC Browser had apparently been taken down from Google’s Play Store. Many suspect that the removal had been prompted by reports accusing the browser of harvesting personal data of Indian users, then sending it back to a server...
Several security researchers recently said that session replay scripts may pose a major privacy threat which is akin to someone looking over the user’s shoulder. Researchers Steven Englehardt, Gunes Acar and Arvind Narayanan gave the statement after studying several session replay service providers including Yandex, FullStory,...
A Chrome extension called Browser-Secure has recently been discovered to be gathering details from users’ Facebook and LinkedIn accounts in secret, which it will then send to a remote server. The extension uses maladvertising tactics to promote itself. A user may be led to a site...
Clothing company Forever 21 is currently investigating a possible data breach that may have exposed their customers’ contact and payment information. The retailer was alerted by a third party last Tuesday regarding the unauthorized access of payment card data at a number of their outlets. Forever...
Cisco Talos researchers have recently identified several flaws with the Foscam C1 Indoor HD Camera that can be exploited by hackers to gain remote access to the device. The researchers found issues in the device’s webService DDNS client code execution, firmware upgrades, softAP configuration, device-to-device communications,...
Another instance of the Face ID getting fooled surfaced this week as a 10-year old was reported to have unlocked his mother’s iPhone X just by looking at it. Attaullah Malik and Sana Sherwani told Wired that their son, Ammar Malik, was somehow able to...
UK consumer rights group “Which?” recently issued a warning to parents about the dangers of connected toys, and also called for a ban for such devices with known privacy and security risks. Which? says that it worked with privacy experts for around a year, investigating several...
Last Monday, the office of Missouri's Attorney General Josh Hawley said that they will be investigating Google for alleged violations of the state’s antitrust and consumer protection laws. A subpoena had already been sent to the search giant, demanding it to provide information and documents on...
China’s plans to build a ubiquitous surveillance network has driven local and foreign investors to heavily fund facial recognition software companies who are looking to fulfill the plan's tech requirements. Firms such as SenseTime Group, Face++ and DeepGlint are jostling to capture a big piece of...