Popular UK greeting card website Card Factory was reported this week to have had a flaw on its website that allowed the public to view private user photos via a simple URL trick. The issue was identified by a developer named Iain Row from Milton Keynes....
A Princeton University expert recently said that the “Do Not Track” function available on most web browsers does little to protect the privacy of users. Jonathan Mayer, an assistant computer science professor, called the tool a “failed experiment” as it is the equivalent of a “Do...
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) found in a recent study that there was a significant disconnect between Canadian businesses’ awareness of cybersecurity threats and the actions they take to counter them. In its 2018 Cybersecurity Survey, CIRA established that 38 percent of respondents admitted that...
Google CEO Sundar Pichai revealed this week at the WIRED 25 Summit that tests of their censored search engine for China has so far been going well. Pichai said that Project Dragonfly has the potential to expose the world to more information, and the company is...
The Irish Data Privacy Commissioner recently launched a formal investigation into privacy concerns raised by a UK professor regarding Twitter’s URL-shortening system. The probe was prompted by a request made by Prof. Michael Veale to Twitter, asking if the company’s link-shortening service “t.co” had collected any...
Networking giant Cisco recently criticized the Australian government and said that its Assistance and Access Bill will create “backdoors” which it defines as any surveillance capability that is intentionally created but not transparently disclosed. Cisco elaborated that the bill would result in the creation of a...
Secretary of the Children’s Charities' Coalition on Internet Safety, John Carr, wrote last week to the European Commission and asked that its newly introduced data laws be amended so that investigators can report and take down indecent images such as those that depict child sexual...
UK’s surveillance camera commissioner Tony Porter recently warned that the body cameras worn by British police could be a target for hackers wanting access to police database. Porter added that there is no standard for the way the police purchase and deploy the equipment, and he...
Facebook revealed last Friday that around 30 million users had been impacted by the breach that hit the social network in September. This number is around 20 million fewer than what the company had previously announced. However, it is said that 14 million had their names,...
Republican senators John Thune, Roger Wicker, and Jerry Moran wrote a letter to Google this week asking for an internal memo which may confirm a coverup of the breach of the company’s social network. It was just recently reported that Google+ may have leaked the personal...