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 […]
There’s news to rejoice for the Yahoo users as Yahoo has agreed to pay $50 Million for the damage done to its 200 million users due to pilfering of their personal data which caused the largest data breach case in history. Moreover, it will also provide two years of free credit – monitoring services to […]
To salvage reputation over user data protection, Facebook is now hunting for cybersecurity firms to acquire. The social networking giant is said to have offered deals to “several” cybersecurity companies. Facebook is still trying to reel from the hack that exposed 29 million users. According to a report by The Information Facebook is accelerating plans to buy […]
The attackers exploited Facebook’s code that happened in between July 17 – Sep 18 this year. This is the worst incident happened regarding the security that affected a lot many users whose personal data was stolen. The data breach Facebook disclosed is not as bad as the company thought the number affected users now dropping […]
Alphabet’s Inc. Google will now shut down consumer version of their own social network Google+ after 5 lakh users’ data breached. It has discovered and patched the leak in March of this year and had no evidence of misuse of user data or that any developer was aware or had exploited the vulnerability. – Google […]
On Tuesday afternoon Facebook announced that hackers who breached the social-media company’s network took control of as many as 50 million user accounts. It did not use those accounts to log in to third-party apps through its Facebook Login offering. As announced last week by Facebook about its worst security breach, the hackers could have used […]
