ID-on't renounce my freedom - Data Leaks

It Seemed Like a Popular Chat App. It’s Secretly a Spy Tool

Mark Mazzetti, Nicole Perlroth and Ronen Bergman

11 January 2020

ToTok, an Emirati messaging app that has been downloaded to millions of phones, is the latest escalation of a digital arms race.

IoT Company Wyze Leaks Emails, Device Data of 2.4M

Lindsey O'Donnell

01 January 2020

The Internet of Things vendor confirmed that customer data was left unsecured on an Elasticsearch database. An exposed Elasticsearch database, owned by Internet of Things (IoT) company Wyze, was discovered leaking connected device information and emails of millions of customers. Wyze makes smart home cameras and connected devices like connected bulbs and plugs, which can be...

Data-Enriched Profiles on 1.2B People Exposed in Gigantic Leak

theverge.com

05 December 2019

Although the data was legitimately scraped by legally operating firms, the security and privacy implications are numerous.

Edward Snowden: How Your Cell Phone Spies on You

Edward Snowden

22 November 2019

Georgia hit by massive cyber-attack

BBC News

04 November 2019

A huge cyber-attack has knocked out more than 2,000 websites - as well as the national TV station - in the country of Georgia.

UK Ex-Spy Chief Reveals Big Tech Companies Like Google, Facebook ‘Know More About Us’ Than MI5

Svetlana Ekimenko

10 October 2019

The Cambridge Analytica scandal of early 2018, when it was revealed the personal data of millions of Facebook users had been harvested without their consent and used to target them with political advertising, sparked the outrage of users, lawmakers, privacy advocates, and media pundits.

FDA warns of potential cyber vulnerabilities in internet-connected medical devices

Maggie Miller

09 October 2019

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday warned patients, providers and manufacturers about cybersecurity vulnerabilities in certain medical devices and health care networks.

New Simjacker vulnerability exploited by surveillance companies for espionage operation

AdaptiveMobile Security

21 September 2019

AdaptiveMobile Security have uncovered a new and previously undetected vulnerability and associated exploits, called Simjacker. This vulnerability is currently being actively exploited by a specific private company that works with governments to monitor inpiduals.

I Shared My Phone Number. I Learned I Shouldn’t Have.

Brian X. Chen

19 September 2019

Our personal tech columnist asked security researchers what they could find out about him from just his cellphone number. Quite a lot, it turns out.

Cyberthreats could turn smart cities into dumb ones

politico.eu

14 September 2019

Smart technology is making Europe’s cities more sustainable, but privacy and hacking risks are also growing.

Facebook confirms 419m phone numbers exposed in latest privacy lapse

The Guardian

07 September 2019

Hundreds of millions of Facebook users’ phone numbers were exposed in an open online database, the company confirmed Wednesday, in the latest example of Facebook’s past privacy lapses coming back to haunt its users.

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