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Experian breach affects over 24 million customers and businesses in South Africa

Posted on Aug 21, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Consumer credit reporting agency Experian has suffered a data breach at their South African branch. The Experian data breach didn’t expose consumer credit or financial information, but other personal information…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News

Unsecured Social Data database leaks 235 million public profiles from TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube

Posted on Aug 20, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Researchers from Comparitech have discovered yet another unsecured database which has leaked 235 million records to the world. The records include hundreds of millions from Instagram, forty some million from…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Social Media

New Jersey Supreme Court rules that passcodes aren’t protected by Fifth Amendment

Posted on Aug 13, 2020 by Caleb Chen

The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that passcodes aren't protected by the Fifth Amendment. States around the country, and other countries around the world, continue to rule differently on…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

How the government legally tracks your smartphone use with the Anomaly Six SDK

Posted on Aug 11, 2020 by Caleb Chen

A Virginia based government contracting firm called Anomaly Six LLC has been revealed to be inserting a proprietary software development kit (SDK) into over five hundred mobile apps then sharing…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

China expands Great Firewall to block HTTPS traffic that uses TLS 1.3 and ESNI

Posted on Aug 10, 2020 by Caleb Chen

The Great Firewall of China is getting longer. Chinese censors upgraded the GFW to be able to block HTTPS traffic that uses TLS 1.3 and ESNI. We know about this…

Categories: Censorship, Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

The Garmin hack could have been a disastrous, large scale privacy breach

Posted on Jul 29, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Garmin recently suffered a ransomware attack that crippled services for days. The ransomware attack could have been a cover for a more targeted attack on individuals around the world. This…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News

Study confirms companies with poor privacy practices are more likely to suffer data breach

Posted on Jul 24, 2020 by Caleb Chen

A new whitepaper by Osana confirms what many of us already suspected: that companies with poor privacy practices are 80% more likely to suffer a data breach. To back up…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News

Free VPNs based in Hong Kong caught logging

Posted on Jul 15, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Several free VPN apps based in Hong Kong logged internet activity from millions of users then left that data unsecured on the internet for anyone to find. This batch of…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, VPN

Privacy-loving EU building massive travel surveillance system for visitors that will affect billions of people

Posted on Jul 15, 2020 by Glyn Moody

As this blog has noted, for all its faults, the European Union's GDPR represents one of the most important attempts to protect digital privacy. Although it concerns the EU and…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Huawei 5G banned in the United Kingdom; must be removed by 2027

Posted on Jul 14, 2020 by Caleb Chen

The United Kingdom (UK) is banning telecommunications companies from using Huawei 5G equipment. Following sanctions put on Huawei by the United States, United Kingdom Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden told the…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments
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