Political consulting group Cambridge Analytica used Russian researchers and shared data with companies linked to Russian intelligence, a whistleblower told a congressional hearing on interference in the 2016 US election Wednesday. read more http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Securityweek/~3/vcmQYN3KKRw/cambridge-analytica-shared-data-russia-whi..
Tag : Privacy
Mozilla’s Firefox browser allows users to take screenshots of entire pages or sections of pages and save them to the cloud, and these could end up accessible to everyone, an ethical hacker has discovered. read more http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Securityweek/~3/-ZarX6Vmb9k/firefox-saves-screenshots-publicly-accessible-clo..
Messages from the Signal desktop application for Mac are not deleted from the machine, but are instead copied to the notifications bar, where they persist, a security researcher warns. read more http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Securityweek/~3/EqWqeVQ19kY/deleted-signal-messages-li..
Facebook said Monday it has suspended “around 200” apps on its platform as part of an investigation into misuse of private user data. read more http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Securityweek/~3/ONhCKzM5skY/facebook-suspends-200-apps-over-d..
Researchers from three universities in Germany and Belgium say they have discovered attack methods that can be used by malicious actors to read emails encrypted with OpenPGP and S/MIME, but some believe the claims are overblown. read more http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Securityweek/~3/WEBClYeo4yo/emails-encrypted-openpgp-smime-vulnerable-n..
Il fenomeno Fin Tech fa parte dei profondi mutamenti economici e sociali, negli stili di vita, nelle preferenze e nei comportamenti delle persone, delle imprese e delle organizzazioni determinato dalla rivoluzione digitale. Una rivoluzione a lungo sottostimata dai diversi decisori politici del pianeta e affidata per un lungo periodo all’esclusivo governo dei gestori delle piattaforme, ..
Enlarge (credit: ymgerman / Getty Images News) Apple is reportedly enforcing some of its privacy rules more stringently for apps in its App Store. According to a report by 9to5Mac, the iPhone maker started removing apps that share location data with third-parties without “explicit consent” from users. Apps that have been removed from the App ..
Allow me to nitpick for a moment: There’s a difference between data and information. Data are the facts or details from which information is derived. As such, standalone pieces of data are rarely useful. It’s not really information until data points are connected with context to tell a story. read more http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Securityweek/~3/CNbO8bDwnKg/how-digital-transformation-making-anonymou..
Il 25 maggio del 2018 diviene pienamente applicabile, nell’intero territorio dell’Unione Europea, il nuovo regolamento generale sulla protezione dei dati personali. La sua diretta applicabilità rappresenterà un momento culminante per il legislatore, impegnato nell’esercizio di rivedere la relativa normativa ormai dal 2010. Parimenti, essa costituirà uno snodo cruciale anche e soprattutto per gli operatori, chiamati ..
Enlarge (credit: Tomás Del Coro / Flickr) The following is an excerpt of Habeas Data, which shows how the explosive growth of surveillance technology has outpaced our understanding of the ethics, mores, and laws of privacy. Award-winning tech reporter Cyrus Farivar makes the case by taking ten historic court decisions that defined our privacy rights ..
