Security
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480WhatsApp Receives Record Fine: €225m For Breaching Privacy Regulations
Two hundred twenty five million euros. This is the amount that WhatsApp, one of the most popular free messaging apps in...
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1.2KAre Games Actually Playing Us? Tencent Using Facial Recognition On Young Gamers
A borderline creepy use of facial recognition technology in games or the next great innovation in parental controls? Tencent Games is a...
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1.6KAuthorities Spread ‘Encrypted’ ANoM App To Criminals Worldwide, Bust More Than 800 Of Them In Massive Sting
Is this the biggest cybersecurity sting in history? The FBI, AFP (Australia’s Federal Police), Europol and multiple agencies took over an encrypted...
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3.5KTikTok User Shows How iPhone Takes Infrared Pictures of You Every Five Seconds
The way Face ID works is no mystery but seeing it in action is more than a little unsettling. TikTok user Brie...
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2.8KRussian Authorities May Have Been Connected To Colonial Pipeline Attack
On Monday, the FBI issued a statement in which they confirmed that a new ransomware group going by the name of DarkSide was the...
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2.8KApple Vs Facebook: WhatsApp Can’t Limit User Functionality On Apple Devices
In another controversial move, this one directly going against Apple’s App Store policy, WhatsApp has announced that users who do not accept...
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2.9KTim Cook Asked Zuckerberg In A Private Meeting Back in 2019 To Delete All User Data From 3rd Party Apps
Even back in 2019, it seemed that Apple had something to say about Facebook’s user data gathering practices, as Tim Cook urged...
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2.8KFamous Police Phone-Cracking Tool Hacked By Signal Founder
In a blog post published on Wednesday last week, Moxie Marlinspike, the CEO of privacy-focused messaging app Signal, claims to have managed to hack...
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2.9KThe U.S. Adds Seven More Chinese Companies To Its Economic Blacklist
The U.S. Commerce Department announced in a press release on Thursday that it will add “seven Chinese supercomputing entities to the Entity List for...
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2.9KPersonal Data of Over 500 Million Facebook Users Leaked Online
According to security researcher Alon Gal, 533 million Facebook users have had their phone numbers and personal data leaked on a low-level...
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3.0KNew Android App Limits On Play Store in May
Last week, Google announced several updates of its Developer Program Policy that concerned Play Store apps. Among them, perhaps the most interesting change concerns a restriction...
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3.2KGuns.com Database Leaked by Hacker
A popular U.S.-based gun exchange website was the victim of a security breach. On 9 March, Gun.com, a major platform used by customers...
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3.3KSecurity Flaw Exposes Restricted Video Feed From Tesla Factories
Verkada, a video and AI security company that sells security cameras that customers can access via the internet, has recently suffered a...
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3.6KSamsung and Mastercard Launching A Biometric Credit Card
Samsung just announced that they’re teaming up with Mastercard to launch a biometric credit card that “will add speed, security and safety...
