Chargers Costing Peoples Security
Rigged MacBook chargers hijacking peoples laptops and stealing their data!
A neat feature of many modern laptops is the ability to power them up through the USB port. Unlike the rectangular USB ports of old, the newer […]
Google Maps Always Tracks
Is Google Tracking You?
Thought you’d turned off location tracking in your Google account? Think again. Turns out Google tracks your location even when you think it isn’t.
Chances are if you’ve ever fiddled around in your […]
Yahoo fined £250,000 over cyber-attack
Yahoo’s UK arm has been fined £250,000 ($335,000) by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) over a data breach affecting more than 500 million users which took place in 2014.
The incident was reported two years […]
Buffalo Wild Wings apologises over ‘awful’ tweets in targeted hacking
US restaurant chain Buffalo Wild Wings has apologised for a string of crude and racist posts that appeared on its Twitter account after it was hacked.
“We’re sorry,” the company said in a statement, adding “the […]
Google and Facebook accused of breaking GDPR laws
Complaints have been filed against Facebook, Google, Instagram and WhatsApp within hours of the new GDPR data protection law taking effect.
The companies are accused of forcing users to consent to targeted advertising to use the […]
How Safe Is A USB? IBM Bans staff from using all removable Memory Devices
Staff at IBM have been banned from using removable memory devices such as USB sticks, SD cards and flash drives.
The possibility of “financial and reputational” damage if staff lost or misused the devices prompted the […]
90% of GMail Users Dont Have Security Features Enabled
It makes it harder for people to break into your account, even if they have your login details
One of Gmail’s most effective security features is hardly used by anyone, Google has revealed.
Two-factor authentication (2FA) has […]
Paypal Shares Your Data with over 600 Companies – Including Spoken Content
PayPal has revealed that it shares users’ data with more than 600 external companies.
The payments service has published the third parties it shares data with as part of a transparency drive in a move the […]
Flaw in LinkedIn Autofill Plugin Allows Third Party Sites to Steal Your Data
Not just Facebook, a new vulnerability discovered in Linkedin’s popular AutoFill functionality found leaking its users’ sensitive information to third party websites without the user even knowing about it.
LinkedIn provides an AutoFill plugin for a […]
Protect your personal data on facebook
Is leaving Facebook the only way to protect your personal data?
Following the recent allegations that research firm Cambridge Analytica misused the data of 50 million Facebook users, the debate about how information on the social […]