reader comments 56 with 46 posters participating Share this story A mockup of the tracking confirmation that Apple included in its company blog. Note that it uses Facebook as its example. This week, Apple published a new white paper that describes the ways apps typically track users and handle their data, outlines the company’s privacy ..
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Facebook said Tuesday that hackers “scraped” personal data of some half-billion users back in 2019 by taking advantage of a feature designed to help people easily find friends using contact lists. A trove of information about more than 530 million Facebook users was shared over the weekend at a hacker forum, prompting the leading social ..
A bipartisan group of US senators on Friday sent letters to major digital ad exchanges, including Google and Twitter, asking whether user data was sold to foreign entities who could use it for blackmail or other malicious ends. In the real-time bidding process to decide which personalized ads a user sees when a web page ..
The open-source SecureDrop Workstation has undergone a security makeover after a third-party security audit flagged multiple problems, including a high-risk bug that could allow an attacker to plant files on target machines. The SecureDrop Workstation audit, conducted by Trail of Bits and financed by the New York Times, warned that the high-risk directory traversal bug ..
La telemetria è la capacità di un sistema di rilevare a distanza dati operativi relativi ad un device connesso in rete. Ci sono diversi tipi di apparecchi per vari usi, anche gli smartphone rientrano in questo campo di attività, con brutte sorprese per gli utenti finali. Secondo uno studio pubblicato dal Trinity College, dal titolo ..
Sensitive data pertaining to the customers of top mobile services providers in the European Union is at risk of compromise due to improperly secured websites, data security and privacy firm Tala reveals. An analysis of the websites of 13 of the top mobile telecom companies in the EU has revealed that none of them has ..
The Dutch Data Protection Authority announced on Wednesday that it has issued a fine of €475,000 (roughly $550,000) to online travel agency Booking.com for failing to report a data security incident within the required timeframe. According to the privacy watchdog, the incident took place in December 2018 and it involved cybercriminals using voice phishing (vishing) ..
Mar 31, 2021 Marco Schiaffino Hacking, In evidenza, News, Privacy, RSS, Scenario, Vulnerabilità 0 Il governo di Pechino sta puntando tutto sull’AI per identificare le persone tramite sistemi biometrici, ma si moltiplicano gli abusi. Sono strumenti suggestivi ma ancora lontani da essere affidabili. I sistemi di riconoscimento facciale soffrono ancora di qualche “piccolo” problema a ..
The financial impact from a March 1 cyber-attack on CompuCom, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ODP Corporation, is expected to reach the $28 million range, the company said. Following the incident, which resulted in some of the managed services provider’s systems being infected with malware, customer services and internal operations were suspended, but ODP now says ..
A proposed executive order would set new rules on the disclosure of data breaches that also affect United States government agencies, according to a Reuters news report. The report said the executive order, which could be released as soon as the next week, would require software vendors to notify U.S. government customers of cyber-security breaches ..
