Data
WhatsApp gives new data privacy deadline of May 15
All you WhatsApp users across the world, here’s a news piece that needs your attention on an urgent note. The Facebook subsidiary has issued a fresh set of policy updates in which it clearly specified that the users will have to accept its new data sharing rules that will become mandatory from May 15th,2021. Earlier, […]
How to keep backed up data safe from ransomware attacks
We all know that most of the ransomware attacks take place on Windows environments and so security experts are recommending to use something other than the Microsoft giant propelled operating systems for data backups. However, the fact is that most popular backup products are developed to run primarily on the Satya Nadella led company’s software […]
Google collects the following data from its users
All these days we have seen many media speculations that Google collects some personalized data of its users for advertising and development purposes. But there was no official announcement from the Alphabet Inc’s subsidiary on the issue. On Wednesday, Google made an official announcement on the data collection it does and is as follows- Google […]
China has stolen 80% of data belonging to US Adults
In one of the astonishing revelations made in the 60 minutes report aired on an American Television channel CBS, china seems to have stolen data of almost 80% of US Adults. No wait, there is more! Recently, china based BGI Group has approached 6 of the different states with a proposal to construct R&D labs […]
Deleted X rated photos of college pupils exposed by hackers
Fleek app that was started in 2015 on Georgetown University and now defunct has become the talk among many sophomores of some major universities across America. Reason, a cloud configuration error committed on an Amazon Web Services (AWS) bucket is said to have exposed over 377,000 files- 32GB information and that includes X rated deleted […]
Bitglass Security Spotlight: Popular Messaging App Exposes Users’ Private Data.
This post was originally published by Will Houcheime. Go SMS Pro, a popular Android messaging app, had it’s photos, videos and other files exposed due to a bug. Security researchers discovered that when a user sends a file to a non-user, the app uploads the file to its servers and generates a web address so […]
How Google protects its customer data from Cyber Threats
Almost every human being in this materialistic world who uses online services is familiar with Google and its products; as in the past few years the tech giant has evolved into a massive data centric business. Last month, the company sent an automated email to some of its long-time customers saying how it protects their […]
Apple sues recycling firm for reselling iPhones without data wipe
Apple Inc has sued recycling firm GEEP Canada for reselling iPhones, iPads and Watches that were meant to be disassembled after a data wipe. This was confirmed after an audit in 2018, when Apple learnt that over 11,766 pounds of old devices have left the premises without the data on them wiped efficiently. In what […]
Most businesses are failing to protect user data
Over 46% of those whose email addresses get hacked are sure that they would experience cyber fraud at some point of time in the future. As consumer group Which? has discovered that most companies are still not taking information security on a serious note. Although most companies are holding humongous amounts of critical info like […]
Survey finds 4 in 6 drivers are selling cars without wiping data
When the drivers are selling cars in the UK they are doing it without wiping their data synced from their mobile devices and this was revealed in a survey conducted by UK’s testing and research firm ‘Which?’. Therefore all this leaked personal information can act as a treasure trove allowing hackers to download the […]
