Around six million Sky Broadband customer routers in the UK were affected by a critical vulnerability, a DNS rebinding flaw, that took over 17 months to roll out a fix to customers. The disclosed vulnerability could easily be exploit if the user had not changed the default admin password, or a threat actor could brute-force the […]
Apps for Wifi-strength measurement and another to scan barcodes were selling location data without proper consent. It was unclear to users that apps they had downloaded for one purpose were sharing information for a completely different one.
Do you want to understand the modern cyber threats and the most commonly used attack surfaces behind any malware/cyber-attack?Don’ts:1.) Don’t give everything easily to the attacker, make it harder for him to get. (Control Measures in the network)2.) Don’t enable legitimate vulnerable application if not in use, attackers always use legit applications in the network. (Abuse […]
Internet of Things devices offered in the European Union will no longer be allowed to use standard passwords from mid-2024. Instead, users must set a strong password before first use, the European Commission has determined. It must also become easier to update IoT devices, they must be tested for vulnerabilities and stored personal and financial […]
In its latest ambitious digital policy announcement, the European Union has proposed creating a framework for a “trusted and secure European e-ID” (aka digital identity) — available to all citizens, residents and businesses to make it easer to use a national digital identity to prove who they are in order to access public sector or […]
The ruling stated that the devices’ ability to capture conversations at ranges of between 40ft and 68ft away was excessive. The fact remains that anyone with a Ring Doorbell can turn their area of the neighbourhood into a surveilled space due to its video recording functionality and audio processors which are able to pick up […]
Several popular Android phones have been found to collect and share data on a large scale, including with third parties, and users cannot opt out, according to researchers from Trinity College Dublin and the University of Edinburgh. The study https://lnkd.in/eiVzvJj3 examined six variants of the Android operating system, namely those from Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, Realme, LineageOS and […]
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has sent a “draft decision” to the other European Data Protection Authorities on Facebook’s legal trick to bypass the GDPR. noyb has published the relevant documents today https://lnkd.in/eQBMMg7C. In the DPC’s view Facebook can simply choose to include the agreement on data processing in a “contract”, which would make the […]
Total GDPR fines for Q3 2021 amounted to over $1.1bn. Twenty times higher than the combined total of Q1 and Q2 in 2021, and triple the amount handed out in 2020.
The European Parliament wants a permanent ban on the use of automated facial recognition in public areas and at border crossings. Parliament also wants a ban on private facial recognition databases, social scoring systems of citizens and behavioral data-based ‘predictive policing’. A resolution calling for this was passed with 377 votes in favour, 248 against […]