The credit histories of more than one million Russians with data of mobile operators obtained from the Bureau of Credit Histories (BKI) were in the public domain since the end of August. Bob Dyachenko, an independent cybersecurity researcher discovered this data on October…
Facebook decided to pay hackers in the expansion of its bug bounty program. This is a way to enhance the security of third-party apps and websites that integrate with its platform, as Facebook users’ data that had been misused was exposed mainly as the result of a…
Mozilla has blocked execution of all inline scripts and potentially dangerous eval-like functions for built-in “about: pages”, in an effort to protect its users from code injection. These are the gateway to sensitive preferences, settings, and statics of the…
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) is talking about the “post-cookie” web world and proposes a digital token technology instead of cookies. IAB is the trade group that represents the online ad industry and media companies and proposes the creation of a digital…
After exposing CEO‘s account, private tweets, passwords, and personal data for hundreds of thousands of users, Twitter admitted a new security problem.
In a blog post, the company announced that the phone numbers and/or email addresses provided by its users for the…
Indian users were third most exposed to Formjacking attacks, after those from US and Australia, according to a recent survey conducted by Symantec. The company announced it has blocked over 2.3 million formjacking attacks all around the world, in the second quarter of this…
A former Yahoo software engineer admitted in court that he had hacked the accounts of thousands of users.
Reyes Daniel Ruiz, 34, of Tracy, California, pleaded guilty to accessing about 6,000 Yahoo accounts. He said he searched for private and personal records, mainly sexual…
Google's New Internet Encryption Protocol, under antitrust examination
September 30, 2019
The congressional antitrust investigators are concerned that Google’s new Internet Protocol might give the company an unjust competitive advantage, according to CNET. Investigators try to find out if Google will use the collected data through this protocol for any…
Google only has to remove links from the search results only in Europe, after a request. This is the verdict of the European Court of Justice, after the Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL) from France asked the giant to remove search result…
27 countries signed pledge to clean up the cyberspace that became the digital equivalent of the old Wild West, in a joint statement at the United Nations.
The draft resolution II on “Advancing responsible State behaviour in cyberspace in the context of international…
