Collaborate Disseminate
A researcher has conducted an analysis to see how major companies could track user activity through their mobile in-app browsers, and released a free and open source tool that allows anyone to check what code is being injected by such browsers.
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Whether it’s the fitness tracker on your wrist, the “smart” home appliances in your house or the latest kids’ fad going viral in online videos, they all produce a trove of personal data for big tech companies.
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LAS VEGAS – BLACK HAT USA 2022 – An analysis conducted by two researchers has revealed that some commercial cybersecurity products rely on algorithms that have been taken from other security tools without authorization.
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Privya emerged from stealth mode on Tuesday with a data privacy-focused code scanning platform and $6 million in seed funding.
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French privacy regulators on Thursday closed a case against Facebook after determining the US tech giant had changed the way it collected user data to comply with the law.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is hosting its re:Inforce 2022 conference these days and the cloud giant has taken the opportunity to unveil several enhancements to its security offerings.
Security, privacy, compliance and identity
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A German consumer group on Tuesday said it had sued US electric vehicles manufacturer Tesla over data privacy concerns and claims that buying its cars reduces emissions.
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Researchers with the New Jersey Institute of Technology have devised a new targeted deanonymization attack that relies on a cache side-channel and which they say is efficient on multiple architectures, operating systems, and browser versions, and works… Continue reading New Deanonymization Attack Works on Major Browsers, Websites
Cybersecurity researchers reported details Monday of cases where Thai activists involved in the country’s pro-democracy protests had their cell phones or other devices infected and attacked with government-sponsored spyware.
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Aerospace and defense giant Aerojet Rocketdyne has agreed to pay $9 million to settle accusations brought by a former employee regarding the company’s compliance with government cybersecurity requirements.
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