Applicants Must Give Up Social Media Privacy for US Visa Approval
Be cautious with your digital presence as you might now have to share it with the US State Department. As of Friday, millions of US immigrant and non-immigrant visa seekers will have to submit their social media history, email addresses and phone numbers dating back five years, including travel history ... Read More
Facebook Says 5% of Monthly Active Accounts Are Fake, Deletes 3B in 6 Months
Facebook removed 2.2 billion fake accounts between January and March 2019, bringing the total of accounts disabled to more than 3 billion over a six-month period, which includes Q4 2018 data, according to the company’s Community Standards Enforcement report published Thursday. The social network says the number of removed accounts ... Read More
Customer Details from 2015 TalkTalk Breach Found on Google
After countless complaints from viewers about fraud, a BBC Watchdog Live investigation revealed that UK telecom TalkTalk didn’t notify 4,545 customers that their data had been compromised in the 2015 data breach, writes the publication. With a basic Google search, reporters found sensitive information, including names, addresses, email addresses, dates ... Read More
Baltimore Struggles to Rebuild Systems after Refusing to Pay Bitcoin Ransom
Baltimore is still recovering from the Robbinhood ransomware attack on the city on May 7 and crushed all administrative transactions, payments and communication. The same ransomware hit the City of Greenville in North Carolina last month. Baltimore city officials refused to pay ransom in bitcoin to decrypt computers and regain ... Read More
Improved, Stable Tor Browser Released for Android
Great news for users who want to hide their location when surfing the web and prevent websites from tracking their activity: Tor, the online security and privacy-focused browser, is now available on Android, the development team announced in a blog post on Tuesday. “Mobile browsing is increasing around the world, ... Read More
Database of 49 Million Instagram Influencers Leaked Online
Facebook is investigating a major data breach that leaked personal information of 49 million Instagram users, writes TechCrunch after it received and analyzed the data from security researcher Anurag Sen. The unsecured database, hosted by Amazon Web Services, contained personally identifiable information such as email addresses and phone numbers, as ... Read More
UK Human Rights Group Sues Police over Facial Recognition Software Use
Earlier this month, San Francisco banned the use of facial recognition technology in police investigations, and now the UK is looking into the matter as a human rights group sues local police for fear that the country could be following in the footsteps of China, writes the BBC. Human rights ... Read More
Google Working on AI Algorithm that Detects Lung Cancer
Artificial intelligence now comes to the aid of doctors and radiologists for more accurate diagnosis of lung cancer, writes The New York Times. According to a study conducted by Google researchers in partnership with medical institutions, and published in the journal Nature Medicine, artificial intelligence was 94 percent accurate in ... Read More
Phishing Attacks against SaaS, Webmail Services Rise Sharply in Q1
Believing that security incidents are imminent and probably unavoidable, enterprises are turning to advanced digital forensics to better understand and identify bad actors, and are open to using deception through technology such as honey pots or seeding fake data to help hunt down cybercriminals later, according to Neustar research. They’re ... Read More
US Bans Foreign Equipment that Threatens National Security, Implicating Huawei
Have Huawei and affiliates been ostracized from the US for fear of cyberespionage? Casting foreign technology as a serious risk to national security, US President Donald Trump has banned telecom companies in the US from deploying equipment made in foreign countries, US officials announced on Wednesday, according to The New ... Read More
