A specialised CIA unit that developed sophisticated hacking tools and cyber weapons didn’t do enough to protect its own operations and wasn’t prepared to adequately respond when the secrets were stolen, according to an internal report prepared after the worst data loss in the intelligence agency’s history. “These shortcomings were emblematic of a culture that […]
The government on Wednesday said no data or security breach has been identified in Aarogya Setu after an ethical hacker raised concerns about a potential security issue in the app. The app is the government’s mobile application for contact tracing and disseminating medical advisories to users in order to contain the spread of COVID-19. On […]
Hundreds of millions of dollars are lost each year due to laptop theft. However, it’s not just the actual theft of the device that leads to such massive financial loss, it’s the data breaches that stem from those thefts which are the real problem. Laptops can be stolen from anywhere. Whether it’s from the workplace […]
OnePlus in a statement posted on its official forum confirming that it has suffered from another data breach. According to OnePlus, some customer names, contact numbers, emails, and shipping addresses may have been exposed but the company confirms that all “payment information, passwords, and accounts are safe.” It began notifying users about the breach on […]
The seriousness of data breaches has crumbled some businesses permanently, while some are barely surviving. Still, the security level of data is not being taken as seriously as it should by all business owners. The challenge is ever with small business owners that feel they do not have value enough that breachers can be after. […]
A British parliamentary on Wednesday accused Facebook to let some companies including Netflix and Airbnb access users list of friends after it cut off that data for most other apps around 2015. The UK parliament’s select media committee published more than 200 pages of internal Facebook emails it has acquired while probing how the giant […]
Looks like there is no stoppage to the data breach as we hear another massive data breach of the popular Quora.com. Quora is a place to gain and share knowledge. It’s a platform to ask questions and connect with people who contribute unique insights and quality answers. Quora said that the hackers breached their network […]
The recent measures were taken by Mariott to investigate and speculate the data security incident which involved the Starwood guest reservation database. On Nov 19, it was recorded that there was an unauthorized access to the database which had the personal information of the guests regarding the reservations at the Starwood properties on or before […]
Consumer groups from seven European countries, including Poland and Netherlands, have filed GDPR complaints against Google’s location tracking which is in violation of the bloc’s new privacy laws. Members of The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC), each of the countries claim that Google’s “deceptive practices” around location tracking deprive users of exercising a real choice about […]
The Federal Agency of News LLC which is also known as FAN and Evgeniy Zubarev, the company’s sole shareholder, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Facebook in federal court in the Northern District of California. They sued Facebook claiming that FAN is a legitimate news outlet and demanded that its Facebook account be restored. FAN’s […]
Mozilla announces to add a new feature to its browser which will mainly cover the security purposes. With this new update, users will receive an immediate notification if there had been any breach to the websites they had been visiting. The Firefox notifications shall include the summary about the nature and the extent of the breach […]
