Checkout bots are gaining popularity in coronavirus pandemic to snap up delivery time slots through Chrome extensions including those that may contain security vulnerabilities.
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Scott Ikeda is a technology futurist and writer for more than 15 years. He travels extensively throughout Asia and writes about the impact of technology on the communities he visits. Over the last 5 years, Scott has grown increasingly focused on the future landscape of big data, surveillance, cybersecurity and the right to privacy.
Information from 3.68 million leaked user accounts of Mobifriends dating app allow hackers to exploit password reuse problem and unlock a lot more accounts.
$1.3 million BEC attacks on three large financial services companies in U.K. and Israel shows how far cyber criminals are willing to go and what they are capable of.
A widespread email data leak is forwarding addresses in plain text to advertising and analytics companies when users sign up for, unsubscribe from, or click on marketing emails from online services.
A new phishing campaign that chains exploits from Microsoft’s Sway, OneNote and Sharepoint services is targeting C-suite executives at a wide range of organizations worldwide.
Cellebrite and NSO Group are taking advantage of coronavirus pandemic to pitch their surveillance technology and phone hacking tool as countermeasures to law enforcement.
Newly published paper on twelve organizational accountability principles to help private and public organizations balance necessary data use with privacy concerns.
MIT is proposing the use of health certification and digital identity tracking to anonymize personal data and protect user privacy while determining who can safely return to work.
Is federal privacy law the answer to the concerns raised by privacy advocates on the potentially invasive coronavirus data collected for public health reasons?
A leaked survey shows Amazon Ring assessing demand for potential new features including facial recognition and license plate scanning tools for their future product versions.
