New trends advance user privacy
Privacy and security online are one of the top concerns of Americans, especially after numerous massive data breaches (Equifax, Yahoo, Uber) that happened in the past couple …
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Apple prohibits developers from using, selling users’ Contacts
According to new rules recently published by Apple, iOS app developers must refrain from creating a database of the information gleaned from users’ Contacts and to sell …
With the GDPR, companies face new era of compliance and transparency
A new Avecto survey explored IT and security’s role in helping companies achieve compliance with the new guidelines for the collection and processing of personal …
How third-party risk affects your GDPR compliance
In this podcast, Darron Gibbard, Chief Technical Security Officer EMEA at Qualys, discusses third-party risk and how it affects the GDPR compliance of your organization. …
Facebook confirms bug messed with 14 million users’ sharing settings
Facebook has admitted that, between May 18 and 27, posts by some 14 million users were automatically set to be shared with the public. “Every time you share something on …
Shape up US businesses: GDPR will be coming stateside
Despite the significant financial penalties, US consumers have tended to look away or forgive brands in the aftermath of a breach, but recent research shows that this is no …
Facebook gave user data access to Chinese mobile device makers, too
On Sunday, The New York Times revealed that Facebook has been providing mobile phone and tablet vendors access to user (and users’ friends’) data even though the …
MyHeritage suffers data breach, account details of 92+ million users compromised
Israel-based genealogy and DNA testing company MyHeritage has apparently suffered a data breach that resulted in the compromise of email addresses and hashed passwords of all …
New security, privacy features in iOS 12 and macOS Mojave
Apple has announced a slew of new features for iOS 12 and macOS Mojave (10.14), but also some security and privacy improvements that should make privacy-minded users very …
Ticketfly got hacked, user data was leaked
Ticketfly, a ticket distribution service owned by event management and ticketing pioneer Eventbrite, appears to have been hacked. The service’s site is showing a simple …
