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Tag Archives: Privacy
35 million US voter records up for sale on the dark web
He or she is selling off the databases by state. Kansas’s voter database has already been sold and published, and Oregon is next up for sale.
Donald Daters app for pro-Trump singles exposes users’ data at launch
A security researcher found a publicly exposed Firebase data repository that was hardcoded in the dating app.
Google using lock screen passwords to encrypt Android Cloud backups
If, that is, your phone has updated to the Android 9 operating system, otherwise known as Pie. If so, say hi to the Titan chip!
Facebook opens up about data breach details
Two weeks after Facebook’s first serious data breach, and the social network has shared what it has figured out so far.
What Kanye West can teach us about passcodes
Pulling out an iPhone XS to show the assembled throng a picture of the hydrogen-powered aircraft that “our president should be flying in,” West casually unlocked it using the passcode ‘000000’.
Experian credit-freeze PINs could be revealed by a simple trick
The credit bureaus’ struggles with PINs continue…
Instagram tests sharing your location history with Facebook
Instagram is testing Facebook Location History – which allows the tracking of precise locations from your device – in its app.
291 records breached per second in first half of 2018
Over 4.5 billion data records were breached in the first half of this year, according to Gemalto’s Breach Level Index released this week.
Airport mislays world’s most expensive USB stick
In October 2017, a member of the public found a USB stick containing a trove of data on security systems and procedures at one of the world’s busiest airports.