The trial opened against Facebook by the Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems that could affect how hundreds of thousands of companies transfer personal data worldwide as well as Europeans’ privacy rights will start next week at Europe’s top court, according…
An investigation was started by the British Competition and Markets Authority into the power wielded by Facebook and Google in digital advertising markets, including the ownership of data, according to Reuters.
The authorities want to reveal how much influence the platforms…
The critical security vulnerabilities of one of the popular social media sharing plugins – Social Warfare, was exploited by hackers in order to take control of the WordPress websites still running a vulnerable version of the plugin, used to add social share…
The company owned by Mark Zuckerberg admitted to having stored passwords of millions of Instagram users.
The plaintext passwords for millions of Instagram users, along with millions of Facebook users, were accessible to some of the Facebook engineers, who according to the…
Web browsing can turn into a very unpleasant experience when we land on some malicious website. Usually, these are well disguised in order to trick us into thinking they are legit websites while running hidden scripts that can slow browsing speed, retrieve personal…
Last week, Google was under scrutiny regarding the Analytics script (urchin.js), which, apparently can be controlled by somebody with malicious intent (and with the latest DNS exploits they don’t even need to control the Google server). As a result, the content of those…
A new cyber threat campaign was discovered by TALOS – the security and intelligence group that creates threat intelligence for CISCO. The campaign threats both private and public entities, including national security organizations. According to TALOS’ experts, at…
Malware is a software that is created for malicious purposes and although it is usually associated to devices, it can be also used to attack and infect the websites that you usually browse through. This kind of software is created with the purpose of stealing personal…
The social media giants might be forced to stop the practices that mislead users into giving personal data to companies that trick them. Two US senators introduced a bill that might stop this kind of behaviour of Facebook and Twitter, for example. These “dark…
