by Surur
2 weeks
There was a bit of a brouhaha in July last year when it was revealed that Apple, Google and Microsoft all listened in on voice assistant voice commands for training purposes. At the time the main issue was that users were not info...
by Surur
3 weeks
We reported yesterday that Google Nest Hub has been showing a Xiaomi Mijia smart camera user photos from random Mijia users on his Google Nest Hub including photos which appears to look into a child’s nursery, a porch and a ...
by Surur
3 weeks
We recently reported that a security researcher managed to match the phone numbers and accounts of 17 million twitter users he did not know using Twitter’s contact search feature. At the time we wondered how other social net...
by Surur
4 weeks
Twitter recently alerted Android users that their data may have been compromised, saying: We recently fixed a vulnerability within Twitter for Android that could allow a bad actor to see nonpublic account information or to control...
by Anmol
2 months
Microsoft performed a threat assessment of their services and the users between January and March of this year and the results are shocking. According to the Microsoft threat research team, millions of users are reusing their pass...
2 months
Instagram is making it mandatory to add a date of birth when creating an account. Now, users need to be at least 13 years old to use the service. Countries like those in the EU have regulations which create a minimum age for onlin...
by Rahul
2 months
WhatsApp for iOS has received an update, which brings a couple of interesting new features and privacy improvement. With the latest update installed, you’ll be able to choose to accept an incoming WhatsApp call while youR...
2 months
Facebook reportedly tested an app for employees, allowing them to identify people by simply pointing their camera on them as per a new report from Business Insider. How it worked was by drawing upon facebook’s pre-existing F...
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OnePlus today reported a security breach that led to a third-party accessing customer data without due authorisation. “While monitoring our systems, our security team discovered that some of our users’ order informatio...
by Surur
2 months
DNS over HTTPS is a controversial internet privacy technology which would encrypt DNS connections and hide them in the common HTTPS traffic, making it impossible for ISPs to snoop on your internet traffic and know which websites y...
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Instagram’s private accounts feature lets users share their photos to a curated group of followers. For vulnerable users, it is sort of a safe space where they can be themselves. Ghosty is an app in the Google Play store tha...
by Surur
2 months
Brave Software has today announced the official launch of Brave 1.0. The privacy-focussed Brave open source browser claims to offer users a private, safer, and 3-6x faster browsing experience, while funding the Web through a new a...