The IICSA report cited “unprecedented levels of depravity” and said that encryption is getting in the way of current screening.
Tag Archives: Privacy
Confessions app Whisper spills almost a billion records
Researchers say the exposure includes exact locations of users’ last posts, nicknames, age, and gender.
Analytics firm’s VPN and ad-blocking apps are secretly grabbing user data
Both Google and Apple have removed at least some of the apps from the company, Sensor Tower.
Brave browser to block web fingerprinting with randomisation
Brave is testing a new defence against fingerprinting: confusing algorithms by randomising some of the data they collect.
Google data puts innocent man at the scene of a crime
The man became a suspect because location data from his Android phone was swept up in a surveillance dragnet called a geofence warrant.
Phone carriers may soon be forced to adopt anti-robocall tech
US carriers haven’t been doing enough to block robocalls voluntarily. The Federal Communications Commission’s response? Fine – we’ll make you.
99% of compromised Microsoft enterprise accounts lack MFA
Cybercriminals compromise over a million Microsoft enterprise accounts each month as too few customers use multi-factor authentication.
Cathay Pacific fined over crooks slurping its database for over 4 years
The ICO found a “catalog of errors,” including backups without passwords, unpatched servers, no-longer-supported OSes and feeble anti-virus.
Zynga faces class action suit over massive Words With Friends hack
It’s charging subpar password security and lousy user notification: Zynga has yet to notify users to warn them of the breach, the suit says.
NCSC: Secure your webcams now
We don’t want to see what you do behind closed doors, but lots of hackers would be happy to pull up a chair to view that video stream.