Epic Games, the company behind the hit game Fortnite, had reportedly patched a security issue on their infrastructure that could have given hackers easy access to user accounts. The vulnerability was reported in November by researchers from cyber-security firm Check Point, who said that Epic...
Security researcher Troy Hunt revealed this week that he had found a collection containing around 773 million email addresses and 22 million passwords hosted on Mega.nz. Hunt said in a blog post that he even saw his own personal data in the dump, including an email...
Researchers from Trend Micro recently revealed that Paris-based online ad company Adverline had been hacked and its infrastructure had been used to inject malware into hundreds of online stores, with the intent of stealing credit card information. According to a report by RiskIQ, the Adverline hack...
Cloudflare’s Director of Trust & Safety, Justin Paine, revealed this month that he had found an improperly secured ElasticSearch database belonging to California provider VOIPO which exposed millions of call and SMS logs, as well as internal system credentials online. Paine said that the 6.7...
Florida senator Marco Rubio recently introduced a bill which seeks to apply the general outlines of the 1974 Privacy Act to the data practices of companies particularly in the tech industry. Rubio says that the American Data Dissemination Act, should compel tech giants to be more...
Privacy focused search engine DuckDuckGo announced this week that its address and map searches on mobile and desktop will now use Apple’s MapKit JS framework to provide even greater privacy for its users. DDG says that the updated integration will make Apple Maps available both...
The Privacy Flag, an EU-backed project, recently established a user friendly monitoring system which includes free tools such as a smartphone application, a browser add-on and a public website in six European languages. The evaluation tools, which also includes an automatic breach alert feature, has...
The company behind the privacy-focused Brave browser announced this week that it will be releasing a developer version of Brave 1.0 which will give users the option to view “privacy-respecting” ads. According to co-founder and CEO Brendan Eich, the company is moving on to the second...
The Department of Foreign Affairs released an official statement this week on the recent breach involving the data of Filipino passport holders and said that only a Senate inquiry can give the public the assurance that the data had not been leaked or lost. The DFA...
New York State Senator Brad Madison Hoylman proposed last week a new bill which seeks to give consumers the right to request the personal data being collected from them by businesses and shared with third-parties. The "Right to know act of 2019" is also expected to...