Jens Stoltenberg, NATO secretary-general, wrote that cyber-attacks “can affect every one of us”. The official mentioned that “For NATO, a serious cyber-attack could trigger Article 5 of our founding treaty. This is our collective defense commitment where an attack…
A dangerous trojan replaced a popular VPN. The cybercriminals cloned the genuine website in order to trick visitors into downloading the dangerous trojan.
Researchers at Doctor Web discovered a harmful banking trojan disguised as the popular virtual private…
Users from three countries to control personal data shared by other websites and apps with Facebook
August 20, 2019
Facebook’s policies changed to allow users see and control the data other websites and apps share with the social network, in order to improve targeted advertising.
Erin Egan, Chief Privacy Officer, Policy, and David Baser, Director of Product Management published this…
Ad Guardian Plus, the native ad blocker solution for Windows, is now offering the Ad Blocking feature completely free, for an unlimited time, for all its users. Following the seven day free trial period, you will be able to use this feature without any further action. Users…
The communications watchdog in Russia – Roscomnadzor, announced that it had asked Google to stop advertising “illegal mass events” on its YouTube platform.
The request comes after thousands of Russians went on the streets on Saturday, in what the observers called the…
The French retailer announced it discovered a data breach at the end of July, two weeks after it happened, according to The Independent. The personal information of the customers from Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Australia and New…
Eight catastrophically leaky browser extensions were discovered by researcher Sam Jadali, according to FeedSpot
Together with a Washington Post columnist, Geoffrey A. Fowler, they discovered a disastrous situation about privacy, dubbed DataSpii, to add-ons or plug-ins of…
Hackers abuse WeTransfer, the popular file-sharing service, to circumvent the defensive email gateways that should block spam messages with malicious URLs, according to Threat Post. The problem appears when the transfered file is an HTM or HTML file redirecting to a…
Federal Trade Commission announced that Facebook will pay a $5 billion fine, the largest ever levied by the Commission against a technology company.
According to Reuters, the fine was approved to settle the investigation into Facebook’s privacy violations after the…
Google decided to increase the minimum rewarding amount for the Chrome Vulnerability Rewards Program, according to TechCrunch. At this moment, the security researchers may receive up to 5,000 dollars on baseline reports, but Google announced the amount to be 15,000 dollars…
