Phone numbers linked to more than 400 million Facebook accounts were listed online in the latest privacy lapse for the social media giant, US media reported Wednesday. An exposed server stored 419 million records on users across several databases — including 133 million US accounts, more than 50 million in Vietnam, and 18 million in …
Organizations that are all-in leveraging microservices to speed-up application development, on the DevOps side of the house, have begun acknowledging the importance of incorporating SecOps along the way. The most forward-thinking among them are increasingly checking for vulnerabilities in new apps – and finding them, big time. That’s one of the key revelations in the …
YAHOO and Yahoo Mail are still down this morning with users seemingly unable to access the popular service and its email. Yahoo has now confirmed the outage and is working on a fix. According to DownDetector, the issues started at around 07:38 BST, and are affecting users around the world According to one Twitter user, …
In a move seen as a swipe at Chrome, Firefox is continuing its fight against Facebook and Google’s online ad tracking empire. The browser, owned by Mozilla, will now block third-party tracking cookies by default. This Enhanced Tracking Protection will be automatically turned on for all global users as part of the standard setting. The …
Nominet has been reappointed by ICANN as an Emergency Back-End Registry Operator (EBERO) for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). UK internet infrastructure company Nominet was first appointed as an EBERO operator in 2014. As well as the .UK domain, Nominet runs more than 70 top level domains. Nominet currently operates the “.uk” gTLD, as well …
Microsoft could face a GDPR penalty after the Netherlands’ data-protection office asked its Irish counterpart to investigate new aspects of Microsoft’s Windows 10 telemetry data collection. The case stems from the Dutch data-protection agency’s (DPA’s) findings in pre-GDPR 2017. At that time, the agency found that Microsoft didn’t tell Windows 10 Home and Pro users …
Facebook users suing the world’s largest social media network over a 2018 data breach say it failed to warn them about risks tied to its single sign-on tool, even though it protected its employees, a court filing on Thursday showed. Single sign-on connects users to third-party social apps and services using their Facebook credentials. The …
The Google Nest Cam IQ Indoor camera contained a plethora of security vulnerabilities which could be used to hijack or disrupt the device. On Monday, Lilith Wyatt and Claudio Bozzato from the Cisco Talos research team said a set of major vulnerabilities in the Nest Cam IQ, one of a selection of home security and …
Technological advances like Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Automatic Cards and others will throw up new challenges for cyber security and all countries must unite to foresee and combat them, a leading Israeli cyber security expert said. “The Internet was not designed for security, hence it is inherently insecure since everything is hackable. It is …
Apple has announced that it is going to take a hard stance on online privacy with a new anti-tracking policy in Safari. The iPhone maker has published a “WebKit Tracking Prevention Policy” that goes into specifics about the types of anti-tracking methods it has developed, the practices it believes are harmful to users, and the …