How Snowden’s revelations affected Americans’ communication habits and online activities
Nearly two years after news outlets started reporting on previously publicly unknown surveillance and data collection practices by the US NSA and its counterparts around the …
Yahoo announces email encryption plugin, password-free logins
Yahoo email users will soon be able to encrypt the emails they send out by simply clicking on a button. In addition to this, users will be able to effectively forget their …
Anthem refuses comprehensive IT security audit after the breach
Recently breached US health insurer Anthem has refused to let The Office of Personnel Management’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) perform a full security audit of its …
Mandarin Oriental suffers credit card breach
Mandarin Oriental, the hotel group managing luxury hotels and resorts in Asia, Europe, the US and Latin America, has confirmed that “the credit card systems in an …
5 tips to avoid identity theft
“Tax fraud is widespread and happening as you read this,” says security and identity theft expert for Credit Sesame, Neal O’Farrell. “In the first week …
Beware of spyware concealed inside games
Monitoring tools can be used for legitimate and malicious purposes. The first category includes parental control and employee monitoring software, the second one screenshot …
Flaw in GoPro update mechanism reveals users’ Wi-Fi passwords
A vulnerability in the update mechanism for the wireless networks operated by GoPro cameras has allowed a security researcher to easily harvest over a 1,000 login credentials …
Signal 2.0: Cross-platform encrypted voice and text communication app
Open Whisper Systems has released a new version of Signal, its free, open source iOS app for end-to-end encrypted voice calls. As announced in July last year, when the first …
Uber’s on a hunt for the attacker that compromised its drivers’ database
Late last week, Uber’s Managing Counsel of Data Privacy Katherine Tassi has revealed that the company has suffered a data breach. One of its databases, which contains …
New versions of Tails and Tor Browser fix numerous security issues
Tails is a live operating system that you can start on almost any computer from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card. It aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity. Several …
Gemalto says NSA and GCHQ intrusions “probably happened”
“The investigation into the intrusion methods described in the document and the sophisticated attacks that Gemalto detected in 2010 and 2011 give us reasonable grounds …
Superfish not the only app using Komodia’s SSL-busting code
As Lenovo backtracked on its initial position that the Superfish adware pre-installed on some of its notebooks is not a security danger, and released a security advisory about …