Collaborate Disseminate
Great news for users who want to hide their location when surfing the web and prevent websites from tracking their activity: Tor, the online security and privacy-focused browser, is now available on Android, the development team announced in a blog pos… Continue reading Improved, Stable Tor Browser Released for Android
Facebook is investigating a major data breach that leaked personal information of 49 million Instagram users, writes TechCrunch after it received and analyzed the data from security researcher Anurag Sen. The unsecured database, hosted by Amazon Web Se… Continue reading Database of 49 Million Instagram Influencers Leaked Online
Believing that security incidents are imminent and probably unavoidable, enterprises are turning to advanced digital forensics to better understand and identify bad actors, and are open to using deception through technology such as honey pots or s… Continue reading Phishing Attacks against SaaS, Webmail Services Rise Sharply in Q1
Have Huawei and affiliates been ostracized from the US for fear of cyberespionage? Casting foreign technology as a serious risk to national security, US President Donald Trump has banned telecom companies in the US from deploying equipment made in fore… Continue reading US Bans Foreign Equipment that Threatens National Security, Implicating Huawei
Just a few weeks after announcing it intends to expand by deploying carrier plans for 5G networks, Canadian telecom company Freedom Mobile has fallen victim to a data breach, leaking 5 million unencrypted records online. As confirmed by the carr… Continue reading Freedom Mobile Leaks Customer Database Online
Local government agencies in San Francisco are prohibited from using facial recognition technology as a surveillance tool in criminal investigations for fear it might be inaccurate, the city’s Board of Supervisors decided in a 8-1 vote on Tuesday… Continue reading San Francisco Says NO to Facial Recognition Tech in Police Investigations
Critical networks are caught in the crossfire of the current battle over industrial secrets, tech patents, military operations and financial information. Precisely a month after the US The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bure… Continue reading FBI Detects New Surveillance Malware Linked to North Korea’s Lazarus Group
While hackers are often driven by financial gain through extortion schemes, state-sponsored criminal groups actively targeted the public administration sector for cyberespionage purposes in 2018. 16 percent of breaches occurred in public administr… Continue reading Social Breaches Targeting C-level Executives Spike in 2018, Verizon Says
Bitcoin payments are now an option on Amazon, and other ecommerce platforms will accept them by 2020 thanks to a startup, a browser extension and the lightning network, writes Coindesk. Bitcoin processes only 7 transactions per second, while Visa handl… Continue reading Amazon Shoppers Can Now Pay with Bitcoin on the Platform
An 18-year-old student from New York is suing Apple for $1 billion, claiming he was wrongfully accused of stealing gadgets from a number of Apple stores in Boston, Manhattan, New Jersey and Delaware last year, writes The New York Post. Ousmane Bah says… Continue reading Teen Sues Apple for $1 Billion, Saying Facial Recognition Mistook Him for a Thief