Google has settled in the United States for misleadingly obtaining location data from millions of users for an amount of $ 391 million. Forty US states participated in the lawsuit against the tech company. According to state attorneys general, Google has violated consumer law by misleading users about location settings since at least 2014. This […]
New research suggests that even if you disable the sharing of Device Analytics and turn on other privacy settings, Apple apps track you; data is being collected by a number of Apple iPhone apps—the App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV, Books, and Stocks.
The OpenSSL Project has patched two high-severity security flaws in its open-source cryptographic library used to encrypt communication channels and HTTPS connections.The vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786) affect OpenSSL version 3.0.0 and later and have been addressed in OpenSSL 3.0.7. Only roughly 7,000 Internet-exposed systems running vulnerable OpenSSL versions out of a total of more than 1,793,000 unique hosts spotted by Censys online […]
The technofeudalism model involves establishing a monopoly position and using sophisticated data extraction to secure it. Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon — have turned the slippery slope of digital surveillance into a hamster wheel, a new self-perpetuating system of exploitation. Not only does the tech oligopoly seamlessly record our preferences, habits, and choices, it also […]
Due to the large number of vulnerabilities in software, the continuous stream of cyber attacks and the conflict in Ukraine, the threat situation in cyberspace is higher than ever before, according to the German government in a new management report for 2022. The annual report of the Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI), part […]
CNIL fined Clearview AI with €20 Million for processing data without legal basis and orders to delete data already collected. Clearview AI is an US FacialRecognition company, providing software to companies, law enforcement, universities, and individuals. The company’s algorithm matches faces to a database of more than 20 billion images indexed from the Internet, including […]
Fortinet revealed that the newly patched critical security vulnerability impacting its firewall and proxy products is being actively exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2022-40684 (CVSS score: 9.6), the flaw relates to an authentication bypass in FortiOS, FortiProxy, and FortiSwitchManager that could allow a remote attacker to perform unauthorized operations on the administrative interface via […]
The order will create a new body within the U.S. Department of Justice that will oversee how American national security agencies are able to access and use information from both European and U.S. citizens. It will also give new powers to the civil liberties protection officials within the U.S. Office of the Director of National […]
There is still no new agreement for the exchange of data between organizations in the European Union and the United States, as a result of which organziations continue to violate the GDPR, according to privacy activist Max Schrems. After the European Court of Justice declared the Privacy Shield treaty invalid in 2020, new agreements are […]
WhatsApp silently fixed two critical zero-day vulnerabilities that affect both Android & iOS versions allowing attackers to execute an arbitrary code & Take Full App Control Remotely. So please update your WhatsApp asap!