Privacy
NHS to share UK Patient data with a notorious US Company
A few days ago, NHS revealed that its patient records that include medical history, gender, name, contact details, and addresses will be shared with third-party firms that could use that data in the research and development of medicines for life-threatening diseases and infections such as COVID 19 aka Wuhan Virus- developed by China in Oct […]
UK NHS to share data causing data privacy concerns among patients
NHS UK has made a public announcement yesterday that it is going to share the data of its patients with third parties that are involved in AI-based research and development programs that benefit the field of Medicine. However, the patients have the option of opting out of this latest update, provided they fill in a […]
HEALTHCARE PRIVACY–BIGGER THAN JUST HIPAA
This post was originally published by (ISC)² Management. Security Without Regulatory Muscle As a security practitioner, you may have worked in an industry that was not affected by any regulatory authority. There was a time when security was not driven by governmental power. In many cases, this is why security did not exist in smaller […]
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, […]
Beware of these words which could trigger your Apple Siri, Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, and Microsoft Cortana
To all those using virtual assistants like Apple Siri, Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, and Microsoft Cortana, here’s a piece of news that might grab your interest. A team of researchers in Germany has discovered that even conversations from television programs taking place in front of a virtual assistant could activate it to record the conversations […]
Zoom app denies end to end encryption to free users
Video Conferencing app ‘Zoom’ has made it official that it will not offer end-to-end encryption to its free users as offering ciphered communication will hinder its cooperation with the police. However, all paid users are offered an advantage of encrypted communication as per the press update released by Eric Yuan, the company CEO. Genie […]
Android 11 and its Security and Privacy features
As users are already buying smartphones loaded with Android 10 OS, Google released a preview of its Android 11 operating system on February 19th this year which is to be likely released by the late summer on a commercial note. Some Android users who got an opportunity to use the beta version released in May […]
YES! Encrypted Traffic Can (and Must) Be Classified
Encryption Trends Why is Traffic Encryption on the Rise? Everywhere you look, the use of encryption is rising: on the Internet, in public and private Clouds, within enterprises, and across personal devices. One driver of this trend is the global demand for better protection of personal privacy on the Internet. It is a demand that […]
Mobile Security vulnerabilities found in World’s most popular travel apps
Zimperium which is a specialist in providing Mobile Security solutions has discovered in its latest survey that 100% of applications running on the Apple iOS store and 45% running on the Android-based play store failed to receive the pass marks for keeping their user data private. This includes almost all popular travel apps in the […]
How to prevent Windows 10 from invading your privacy
We all know that the release of Windows 10 Operating System wasn’t received well by users of Microsoft and the main reason for such reaction was due to the fact that it invades the user’s privacy. For this reason, many in the technology world postponed its use and upgrade for many years. Now, to those […]
