Huawei’s top executive in Europe brushed off Western critics and defended the company’s track record against accusations that it could serve as front for Chinese spying. Huawei has raised suspicions in the west for its close ties to the Chinese government and fears are that the company may be an integral tool of the superpower’s ..
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Apple has finally released an iOS update that should fully patch the Group FaceTime vulnerability that could have been exploited to spy on users through their device’s microphone and camera. Apple described the flaw, tracked as CVE-2019-6223, as a logic issue in the handling of Group FaceTime calls. The company says the problem has been ..
Australian security agencies have begun using sweeping new powers to access encrypted communications, even before a promised review to address concerns from the likes of Google, Apple and Facebook. The powers were granted under a new decryption law which was rushed through parliament in December amid fierce debate, and was seen as the latest salvo ..
Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images reader comments 9 with 9 posters participating Share this story On Thursday, Cisco formally joined the parade of major tech companies that have been calling for a comprehensive federal privacy law that would once and for all set a clear standard for tech companies nationwide. Currently in the United ..
There’s no doubt your information is out there. And at a certain point, you have to assume it’ll be exposed. So now what? With everything that’s happened in cybersecurity over the past few years and in the wake of so many high profile breaches all over the world, it’s time for a shift in mindset. ..
Pending Privacy Bills Will Have Critics and Face Lobbying From Vested Interests With Europe’s GDPR and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) as templates, and almost all large companies having to conform to one or both, it is little wonder that the U.S. is being forced to consider a unifying federal law on consumer privacy. ..
The check-in links sent to customers by several major airlines from around the world can allow hackers to obtain passengers’ personal information and possibly make changes to their booking, mobile security firm Wandera warned on Wednesday. Members of Wandera’s threat research team noticed in December that the links sent by Air France to customers through ..
The European Commission (EC) has ordered the recall of a children’s smart watch: the ENOX Safe-Kid-One, manufactured in Germany. It had received a complaint from Iceland’s consumer protection regulator. The EC alert provides little detailed information, merely saying, “The mobile application accompanying the watch has unencrypted communications with its backend server and the server enables ..
The UK data protection regulator (the Information Commissioner’s Office – ICO) launched a wide-ranging investigation into the use of personal information for political purposes following the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica affair. It resulted in the publication of a lengthy report titled ‘Democracy disrupted? Personal information and political influence’ in July 2018, and a fine on Facebook set ..
Apple reported on Friday that the FaceTime spying bug that has been making headlines in the past days has been partially fixed, but users will have to wait until next week for a software update. According to Apple, a server-side patch has been implemented, but the application update that re-enables the Group FaceTime feature will ..
