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Like all tech companies, Sbapchat has a lot of access to your data. They can view your contacts, they can see your location, they have access to your camera, and we permit them this access on an honour system. That system is that ...
by Surur
7 days
Google’s personal data collection frequently verges on the creepy, and today it has been revealed that the company has been collecting a record of all the emailed receipts you have in your Gmail inbox and collating a list of...
by Surur
1 week
We learnt yesterday that attackers have been exploiting a WhatsApp vulnerability to install spyware onto smartphones. The attackers simply needed to give the target a WhatsApp call and that’s about it, it doesn’t eve...
by Raka
1 week
Facebook is back in the spotlight and this time it’s due to its instant messaging app WhatsApp. It’s been learned that attackers are exploiting a WhatsApp vulnerability, which was discovered in early May to install spy...
by Pradeep
2 weeks
Google today announced that it will be changing the way Chrome handles cookies. Cookies are used to track user’s browsing activity across the web to serve personalized content and ads. Google announced the following changes ...
by Surur
3 weeks
Microsoft has been contributing to the development of the Chromium code base which powers numerous browsers, including their new Edge and of course Google Chrome. Their latest submission is to correct a potential privacy leak in C...
by Raka
2 months
A recent analysis conducted by the IMDEA Networks Institute along with Universidad Carlos II de Madrid, Stony Brooks University and ICSI revealed that pre-installed Android apps from major farms are putting your privacy and secur...
by Surur
2 months
With a rich set of APIs websites are closer to applications than documents these days, which means they also have a wealth of ways of spying on you. One method which came to light a few years ago was analysing accelerometer data (...
2 months
Facebook’s data sharing deals are coming under hard scrutiny by American federal investigators. Facebook had earlier this year been revealed to have data sharing partnerships with companies like Microsoft, Apple and Sony whi...