Owner of a botnet has leaked the access credentials for more than 515,000 servers and claimed they were changing business models to make use of cloud service providers instead.
Tinder, Grindr and OKCupid were among the dating apps found to funnel sensitive personal data like gender, age, IP address and GPS location to major advertising and behavior analytics platforms.
A new study reveals that the more humanlike a virtual assistant appears to be, the more consumer trust is placed in the device, which raises fresh concerns around Big Tech and data protection.
Google's privacy sandbox proposal now plans to phase out third party cookies from the Chrome browser by 2022, and has laid out what is at least a theoretical roadmap to preserving the targeted ad industry without the major incursions into user privacy that are so common today.
Phishing scam perpetrated by attackers posing as vendors cheated the school district of approximately $2.3 million before the business compromise scheme was discovered about a month later.
Some of the largest ad companies alleged to have quietly paid millions of dollars to some of the largest ad blocker companies to be able to continue to track and target consumers with ads.
The contentious ongoing battle between Apple and the Department of Justice continues, as the company has refused yet another request for an iPhone backdoor.
New study suggests that many websites are navigating around GDPR by tailoring the design of their cookie consent tools and using dark patterns to provide a misleading veneer of a consent agreement.
DICOM medical records systems that are commonly used to store sensitive images were found to expose billion of medical records just by scanning the server IP addresses and known ports.
U.S. government-funded Android phones are found to contain unremovable pre-installed malware that leaves the phone vulnerable to invasive advertising and auto-installation of apps without user’s permission.
