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Satellite data: The other type of smartphone data you might not know about
Satellite data isn’t collected and treated the same way location data are. Credit: Shutterstock When you think about location data...
Hackers scored data center logins for big corporations more than a year ago. Now they’re selling that information
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In an episode that underscores the vulnerability of global computer networks, hackers got ahold of login...
Proposed privacy reforms could help Australia play catch-up with other nations—but they fail to tackle targeted ads
Credit: Shutterstock In the recently released Privacy Act Review Report, the Attorney-General's Department makes numerous important proposals that could see...
Websites of several German airports not reachable
An aircraft lands at the international airport in Frankfurt, Germany, Nov. 17, 2022. The Internet sites of several German airports...
Cybersecurity defenders are expanding their AI toolbox
Multi-stage attack propagation represented with MITRE ATT&CK Tactics and Techniques. (Note: A directed edge between an attack tactic and technique...
Analysis seeks online advertising protocols for data transparency, consumer privacy and brand safety
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Several Internet business experts see a technology that has made cryptocurrencies possible as a panacea to...
Neurodata can reveal our most private selves. As brain implants become common, how will privacy be protected?
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain "Hello world!" On December 2021, these were the first words tweeted by a paralyzed man using...
New ‘invisible finger’ technology poses potential phone-hacking threats, researchers say
Shuo Wang. Credit: University of Florida When a team of researchers from the University of Florida unveiled new technology that...
By 2025, the worldwide cost of cyberattacks may triple compared to 2015
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In an increasingly digital world, secure internet infrastructures are both a challenge and an obligation. As...
Australia to remove Chinese-made cameras from defence sites
The US banned the importation of surveillance equipment made by Hikvision, seen here, and Dahua in November because it posed...
The West is ill-prepared to deal with evolving cyber threats, report concludes
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain An information and hacking campaign with links to a foreign state has potentially had a "significant...
Android phones sold to customers in China found to be loaded with apps that send user data to third parties
The ECDF of the number of dangerous permissions requested by each category of packages in each handset. Credit: arXiv (2023)....
Fakery and fraud: Energy scammers cast ‘wide net’ on Facebook
Filipino Brenilyn Ayachock posted a video that showed sand pouring out of a portable she had bought online -- a...
UN experts: North Korean hackers stole record virtual assets
In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivers a speech during a...
ChatGPT is a data privacy nightmare. If you’ve ever posted online, you ought to be concerned, says researcher
Credit: Shutterstock ChatGPT has taken the world by storm. Within two months of its release it reached 100 million active...
A VPN can be one internet tool but often is not sufficient for all privacy needs
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Every day, thousands of people turn to VPNs to ensure their privacy and security while living...
Germany appoints central bank IT chief to head cybersecurity
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The German government announced the appointment Tuesday of the European Central Bank's head of IT systems...
Americans don’t understand what companies can do with their personal data—and that’s a problem
The vast majority (77%) of those surveyed would have received an F in most American classrooms (0-53% correct). Another 15%...
Novel system prevents personal metadata leakage from online behavior for privacy protection
There are four types of logical parties in Vizard: data owner, data consumer, a secure data processing pipeline, and a...
48 arrested in Europe over encrypted app used in drug trade
Credit: CC0 Public Domain European investigators have shut down an encrypted communication service that was used as a secure channel...
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