MIT researchers in collaboration with CMU, Brown and Boston University has developed a privacy preserving COVID-19 contact tracing app that uses Bluetooth to broadcast chiprs of random IDs to other devices.
Nearly 10,000 Android apps are found with a variety of undocumented backdoor abilities such as remotely resetting user passwords and blocking users from loading certain types of content.
The European strategy for data encourages data sharing but will be faced with problems of competition between companies, and issues of privacy and data protection.
Maze ransomware attack on the IT services company may cause chain reaction across the industry. Besides service disruptions, customers may face elevated risks of fraud and cyber threats.
Apple and Google are developing a unified contact tracing app for coronavirus, however much work is needed from the two tech giants to address consumer privacy and coverage concerns.
Report shows media and entertainment industry are facing a unique set of cyber threats such as using offensive and threatening content, pirating goods and counterfeiting tickets.
Use of 'pandemic drones' to enforce social distancing has come under fire over concerns of possible privacy violations. The police surveillance drones would yell at people not observing the rules and also have sensors to detect health conditions.
Portuguese energy company EDP suffered a ransomware attack by hacking group Ragnarok who threatened to dump 10TB of stolen data if the company does not pay a ransom of $10.9 million.
Breach of Clearview AI Source Code Renews Concerns About Law Enforcement Facial Recognition Programs
A breach at Clearview AI not only exposed its facial recognition source code but also confidential keys and credentials that would grant a disturbing level of access to the company's internal network.
Irish DPC publishes report and guidance on the use of cookies and Internet tracking after conducting a ‘cookie sweep’ to observe how they were used on popular websites.
