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Update WhatsApp now! One call could give spies access to your phone

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On Monday 13 May, Facebook revealed that an “advanced cyber actor” has been spying on some users of its ridiculously popular WhatsApp messaging app, thanks to a zero-day vulnerability that allowed hackers to install spyware, silently, just by calling a victim’s phone.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 14, 2019

Study finds Android smartphones riddled with suspect ‘bloatware’

One of the oft-discused downsides of choosing an Android device is the phenomenon of pre-loaded “bloatware.”

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 13, 2019

Turkey fines Facebook for December 2018 API bug

The Turkish Personal Data Protection Authority (KVKK) fined Facebook today 1.65 million Turkish lira ($270,000) for an API bug that exposed personal photos of 300,000 Turkish users.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 11, 2019

Only 0.25% of Reported Data Breaches Have Led to Fines Since GDPR

New data has discovered that a minute percentage of data breaches closed by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) since the GDPR came into force have resulted in monetary punishments.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 10, 2019

Google’s case for privacy is more convincing than Facebook’s

Google, the search giant which has made its business to make money off our digital habits, is getting serious about privacy.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 08, 2019

Nearly Half of US Orgs Not Ready for CCPA

In advance of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) going into effect January 1, 2020, researchers analyzed how prepared US organizations are for the new regulations and found that nearly half of all companies will not be ready to comply with CCPA.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 04, 2019

Google rolling out auto-delete for your location and activity history

You may be pleased, or perhaps underwhelmed, by the news that you no longer have to remember to log in and delete the stuff you didn’t know Google was tracking about you.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 03, 2019

Microsoft: We promise you'll get better controls over how we use your data

Earlier this month the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) announced a new investigation into Microsoft's contracts with EU institutions, to check for potential violations of General Data Protection Rules (GDPR).

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 01, 2019

A Rear-View Look at GDPR: Compliance Has No Brakes

There is no denying the impact of the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which went into effect on May 25, 2018. We were all witness — or victim — to the flurry of updated privacy policy emails and cookie consent banners that descended upon us. It was such a zeitgeist moment that "we've updated our privacy policy" became a punchline.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 29, 2019

Three out of five IT workers share sensitive information by email

Bosses should be worried about their employee behaviour around sensitive documents according to a recent report. With the high volume of data that IT teams handle, communicating efficiently and securely is essential to preventing a breach.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 28, 2019

Facebook clamps down on personality quizzes to plug data leaks

Facebook is taking baby steps to plug data leaks on its platform. In a new blog post that was posted yesterday, the company’s director of product management Eddie O’Neil wrote that it will be subjecting apps with “minimal utility,” such as personality quizzes, to heightened scrutiny and “may not be permitted on the platform.”

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 26, 2019

Microsoft drops password expiration from Windows 10 security

What is it about a secure password that makes us think it’s secure?

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 26, 2019

DNS over HTTPS is coming whether ISPs and governments like it or not

The penny has finally dropped inside ISPs and governments that a privacy technology called DNS over HTTPS (DoH), backed by Google, Mozilla and Cloudflare, is about to make web surveillance a lot more difficult.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 24, 2019

Once again, it’s 123456: the password that says ‘I give up’

The essence of most people’s regard for cybersecurity: we’re DOOMED.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 23, 2019

These are the most commonly hacked passwords - is one of them yours?

Hundreds of millions of internet users continue to put themselves at risk of having their accounts hacked by using incredibly simple and commonly used passwords which can easily be guessed by cyber criminals - or worse, just plucked from databases of stolen information.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 21, 2019

Facebook admits storing “millions” of Instagram passwords in plain text

In yet another shocking admission by Facebook, the company said that not “tens of thousands” but “millions” of Instagram users were actually affected by the password leak that happened last month.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 20, 2019

Chinese companies have leaked over 590 million resumes via open databases

Chinese companies have leaked a whopping 590 million resumes in the first three months of the year, ZDNet has learned from multiple security researchers.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 04, 2019

Facebook demand for new user email passwords reveals appalling lack of security awareness

No steps forward, three steps back -- it seems that with every promise Facebook makes to take the security and privacy of its users seriously, yet another example of appalling practices surfaces.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 03, 2019

Over 13K iSCSI storage clusters left exposed online without a password

Over 13,000 iSCSI storage clusters are currently accessible via the internet after their respective owners forgot to enable authentication.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 02, 2019

Covert data-scraping on watch as EU DPA lays down “radical” GDPR red-line

An interesting decision came out of Poland’s data protection agency this week after the watchdog issued its first fine under Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 31, 2019

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