Data
Will Blockchain Technology put an end to monetization of Google’s User Data
George Glider, an economist and a technology critic feels that Google could soon lose the game of making money from its user data, if in the case; the technology of Blockchain takes the world. The technologist revealed these insights in his latest book titled ‘Life after Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise […]
New Internet startup to offer more Data Privacy controls
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of World Wide Web is all set to unveil a ‘New Internet’ which promises to give users full control on the data they share with other internet services providers like Facebook, Google, and Amazon. Inrupt, an app based web search system will allow users to regulate what personal info they would […]
Cambridge Analytica data scandal makes 25% of young adults in America delete Facebook app
Did you delete the Facebook app from your phone or tablet recently? If yes, then you are not the only one who has done so due to privacy concerns. A survey conducted by Pew Research says that nearly 25% of young adults in America have deleted their respective accounts from the Facebook platform after the […]
Equifax Cyber Attack faces a lawsuit from Canada Citizen
In September 2017, Equifax disclosed that a cyber attack on its database has exposed sensitive info of more than 143 million of its American consumers. The leaked data includes social security numbers, driver licenses, and phone numbers as well. Daniel Thalheimer, 46, a citizen of Duncan, Canada has now filed a class action lawsuit against […]
Google collects this data from its users
A research conducted by Vanderbilt University on Google search engine’s data collection activity has found that the internet juggernaut collects two-thirds of data through passive means from its users. This includes information from apps running in the background of Android devices, Youtube, Google Photos, Maps, Chrome browsers, and even in incognito browsers. Therefore, to all […]
Only six companies share Cyber Threat data says Homeland Security
It’s been more than 2 years since the Congress passed a landmark bill which incentivized companies in sharing cyber threat data with the government on how the hackers are penetrating their computer networks. But Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says that only 6 non-federal organizations are sharing such sensitive info with the government, while others […]
Orbitz: Why You Can’t Secure Data in the Dark
This post was originally published here by Jacob Serpa. On March 1, 2018, Orbitz discovered that a malicious party may have stolen information from one of its legacy platforms. The compromised platform housed Orbitz customer information such as mailing addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and full names, as well as details about nearly 900,000 payment cards. This […]
Your Data Is Still Leaving the Building
This post was originally published here by Rich Campagna. Bitglass recently hit its 5 year anniversary as a company. So much has happened during those 5 years that it seems like nothing is the same. Our team has grown by >20x. We gone from zero to hundreds of customers, across every major vertical. We expanded […]
United States DHS confirms Data Breach affecting 240,000 Homeland Security Employees!
US Department of Homeland Security has made it official that a database used by Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General was breached affecting more than 240,000 Homeland Security Employees. The leak includes data related to DHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) Case Management System (CMS) affecting all the 247,167 individuals employed by the Homeland […]
Federal data of 123M US households leaked in latest AWS Data Breach
Critical data of more than 123 million US households was leaked to the public network very recently- all due to a misconfiguration on AWS Storage Bucket. Chris Vickery, a security researcher at UpGuard, Inc was the one who alerted the world about the data breach of the cloud-based data repository and said that the leak […]
