A British researcher has uncovered an ironic, gaping security hole in the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – right of access requests.
Monthly Archives: August 2019
Blackmailed for Bitcoin – exchange rebuffs $3.5m ransom demand
Here’s a story of super-sized digital blackmail aimed at one of the biggest cryptocoin exchanges out there.
Instagram boots ad partner for location tracking and scraping stories
A “preferred Facebook Marketing Partner” is alleged to have tracked millions of Instagram users’ locations and stories.
Parents, it’s time to delete Pet Chat from your child’s LeapPad
LeapFrog has done lots to fix the security of the LeapPad. Now all that’s left is for parents to scrape Pet Chat off of older tablets.
Your Skype Translator calls may be heard by humans
A Skype Translator insider claims it’s good because humans are listening in and helping to train its artificial intelligence.
Update your iPhone – remote control holes revealed by researchers
You might not think your phone is as exposed as an internet server – but it’s handling plenty of untrusted data from unknown sources!
Twitter may have shared your data with its ad partners without your permission
Some user data, such as country and device type, was exposed to some advertisers for over a year.
Cisco 220 Series Smart Switch owners told to apply urgent patch
Businesses running any of Cisco’s 220 Series Smart Switches have some urgent patching work on their hands.
More than 2m AT&T phones illegally unlocked by bribed insiders
The alleged, now indicted ringleader paid more than $1m in bribes to insiders who planted malware and hardware for remote unlocking.
S2 Ep3: Ransomware, surveillance and data theft – Naked Security Podcast
Episode 3 of the podcast is now live. This week, host Anna Brading is joined by Paul Ducklin, Mark Stockley and Ben Jones.