The science publisher is blaming a misconfigured server that exposed a constant stream of its users’ credentials.
Tag Archives: Privacy
Court: Embarrassing leaks of internal Facebook emails are fishy
The leaks point to a plot, a Calif. court said, ordering pikini app maker Six4Three to hand over its lawyers’ chats with the ICO.
Epic in hot water over Steam-scraping code
Players noticed that Epic Games was gathering and storing data from Steam accounts without their permission.
Child-friendly search engines: How safe is Kiddle?
Kiddle and Kidrex are meant to deliver age-appropriate search results, filtering out internet nastiness. But how do they really stack up?
Facebook outage coincides with (or causes?) 3m new Telegram users
A worldwide, nearly day-long outage at Facebook led to Telegram having a busy, busy day.
How to make DuckDuckGo your default Chrome search engine
Good news for the privacy-conscious. Chrome 73, released Tuesday, now includes the DuckDuckGo search engine as an option.
Will the next version of Android get location privacy right?
Google has confirmed that improved control over location tracking is one of several new privacy features in the next version of its mobile OS, Android Q.
Google needs breaking up, says news chief
And Oracle accused Google of creating shadow profiles of even non-users. Theirs are just two of 85 responses to an Australian inquiry.
“FINAL WARNING” email – have they really hacked your webcam?
In the last 24 hours, SophosLabs received 1,700 samples of just one new sextortion campaign. Good news? It’s all a pack of lies. Don’t reply. Don’t engage.
Misconfigured Box accounts leak terabytes of companies’ sensitive data
Easily guessable URLs led to what should have been big companies’ very private data. Even Box itself was found to be exposing folders.