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Cybersecurity

Researchers show that smart TVs are sending your private information back to third parties like Netflix and Facebook

Updated on Jan 26, 2024 by Caleb Chen

While most people have long suspected that their smart TVs are spying on them, there is now definitive proof. Two new studies have highlighted that smart TVs are still not…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Social Media, Surveillance

Massive Novaestrat data leak effects over 20 million in Ecuador

Updated on Jul 22, 2021 by Caleb Chen

A report by ZDNet, with help from vpnMentor’s Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, have uncovered what’s likely the largest data leak in the history of Ecuador. This leak contains roughly…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News

Beware the GHOST Protocol

Updated on Apr 16, 2025 by Caleb Chen

UK internet users and internet users around the world need to beware of the GHOST protocol. The GCHQ, which is the United Kingdom’s (UK) equivalent of the American NSA, came…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News

A major security breach raises a key question: what happens when your biometric data is exfiltrated from a system?

Updated on Feb 1, 2024 by Glyn Moody

It's no secret that password security is often terrible. Good passwords – ones that are long and include a mix of lower case, upper case, numbers, and special characters –…

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MiFi 4G hotspots are vulnerable to hacking, use a VPN to protect yourself

Updated on Jul 26, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Many popular MiFi devices used as 4G hotspots are vulnerable to hacking. A DEFCON 27 talk by Pen Test Partners revealed command injection and remote code execution vulnerabilities in popular…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Surveillance, VPN

UK, US, Australia, Canada and New Zealand meet to discuss the “ghost protocol” aka built in encryption backdoors

Updated on Jul 22, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Representatives from the UK, US, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand recently finished a two day meeting in London where the countries renewed their commitment to seeking encryption backdoors from technology…

Categories: Cybersecurity, Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments

What can we learn from Palantir’s secret user manual for police users of its big data software?

Updated on Jul 29, 2021 by Glyn Moody

Two years ago, Privacy News Online wrote about the mysterious Palantir Technologies. It describes itself as a company that makes "products for human-driven analysis of real-world data". It is a…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments

US Attorney General demands encryption backdoors at all costs and for you to just accept it

Updated on Jul 30, 2021 by Caleb Chen

President Trump’s Attorney General, William Barr, has demanded the tech industry create encryption backdoors because he views encryption as a security risk. Barr made his illogical thoughts on encryption known…

Categories: Cybersecurity, Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments

New research confirms Kazakhstan is spying on connections to Facebook, Twitter, VK, Instagram, Youtube, Google, and more

Updated on Jul 26, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Kazakhstan is actively spying on its citizens' internet connections to Facebook, Twitter, VK, Instagram, Youtube, Google, along with many other sites. New research published by Ram Sundara Raman, Leonid Evdokimov,…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media, Surveillance

Amazon’s collaborations with local police turn its Ring doorbell cameras into unofficial community surveillance systems

Updated on Aug 6, 2021 by Glyn Moody

Amazon was founded almost exactly 25 years ago. Initially it sold books, and people saw it as an interesting early example of e-commerce, but probably assumed that it would remain…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance
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