Facebook announced it suspended tens of thousands of apps, as a result of its App Developer Investigation, following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Last year it was revealed that the political consultancy managed to obtain the personal data of over 50 million Facebook app…
Google removed two extensions from the Chrome Web Store. The fully functional ad blockers were caught trying do deceive users by using names of other well-known ad blocker extensions.
“AdBlock” by “AdBlock, Inc” and “uBlock” by…
Emotet, a well-known botnet has begun sending out spam, again. About four months ago, the botnet stopped its campaigns but restarted pumping spam this morning. The emails were written in German, Polish, English and Italian users.
The users are tricked to open an attached…
A cyberspace defence force will be launch in Poland, by 2024. The army will be made up of 2,000 cybersecurity qualified soldiers, according to Security Week. The announcement was made by Mariusz Blaszczak, the defense minister, after approval: “We’re well aware…
Mozilla has announced the plan to offer DNS(Domain Name Server)-over-HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) – DoH feature, by default, for the users in the US. Selena Deckelmann, Mozilla’s Senior Director of Engineering, explained in a blog post that a small…
Apple users were disappointed with the release of iOS 12.4 in July.
Along with the necessary bug fixes and feature enhancements, the update opened the gates for jailbreaking into iPhone devices.
The security flaw was a big turn off for the iOS users and left their data at…
Twitter decided to temporarily disable the “Tweeting via SMS’ feature. The decision comes after the account of Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s CEO, was abused by a hacking group (Chuckling Squad). The attackers sent a series of racist and offensive tweets to his…
YouTube will have to pay $170 million because it broke federal law by collecting personal information about children. Federal Trade Commission announced that YouTube had been accused of tracking viewers of children’s channels using cookies without parental consent and…
Who would have thought Google would be fined a hefty amount for target marketing.
But if sources are to be believed, YouTube has been collecting kid’s information without a parent’s consent.
Federal Trade Commission has fined Google a sum of $170M after finding…
The company announced that the facial-recognition feature is now available for all its users, but mentioned it will keep capabilities will be turned off by default. The feature was previously called “tag suggestions” as the face recognition technology was used to…