An Israeli database belonging to the online travel firm Amadeus has suffered a data breach, exposing the private details of millions of Israeli travelers. The security breach revealed the flight itineraries of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his family, as well as those of other senior officials. The hacker explained that he just had to […]
Author: Meera Narendra
EternalBlue tool believed to be used in Baltimore ransomware attack
The New York Times reported that the National Security Agency (NSA) tool, EternalBlue is behind the Baltimore attack. According to a report in the New York Times, hackers used EternalBlue to exploit vulnerabilities in certain versions of Microsoft Windows, thus allowing malicious code to be run on infected computers. The NSA tool, EternalBlue was leaked […]
Snapchat: spying allegations are “wholly inaccurate”
Multiple employees have said to be allegedly abusing their access to private user data, Motherboard reveals. According to two former employees, Snapchat have dedicated tools that can access consumer data, and it is these tools that are being abused be employees. Employees could view user location information, saved Snaps, phone numbers, and email addresses. SnapLion […]
Rekognition revolt defeated by significant vote
Shareholders casted their vote last week in regards to Amazon selling facial recognition technology to law enforcement agencies. The proposal to stop all sales of Rekognition to law enforcement and government agencies garnered close to 8.3 million votes, however only 2.4% of the votes supported the proposal. It needed more than 50% to pass. A second […]
IoT cyber attacks cost the UK economy £1 billion
New research from Irdeto revealed that Internet of Things (IoT) attacks cost UK businesses an average of £244,000 last year. The Dutch Security vendor conducted research on IT security decision makers at UK organisations in sectors including health, transport and manufacturing. It was revealed IoT devices cost the UK economy over £1 billion each year. […]
Facebook cryptocurrency ‘GlobalCoin’ to be launched in 2020
The cryptocurrency will be launched in early 2020 allowing users to make digital payments in 12 countries. Dubbed ‘GlobalCoin’, the cryptocurrency would enable users to change dollars and other international currency into digital coins. Facebook aims to provide users an efficient way for people to send and receive money regardless of whether users have a […]
Citibank Hong Kong has been fined HK$10,000
Citibank Hong Kong has been found guilty of violating the Personal Data Privacy Ordinance (PDPO). The bank plead guilty to committing a direct marketing offence involving violating the PDPO. The bank failed to comply with a requirement from a data subject who requested to cease using his personal data in direct marketing. The Privacy Commissioner […]
Billions of Facebook profiles have been removed
In its latest “enforcement report”, Facebook revealed that between October 2018 and March 2019, more than 3 billion fake accounts have been removed. Facebook estimated that 5% of monthly active accounts are fake. It was also explained that the significant increase in deleting fake accounts was due to “bad actors who attempt to create large […]
London Underground will start tracking passengers through Wi-Fi
Following a trial in 2016, Transport for London (TfL) will roll out Wi-Fi tracking on the London Underground. In a press release TfL announced that “secure, privacy-protected data collection will begin on 8 July 2019” with improved customer services such as alerts about delays and congestion within stations. TfL also stated that individual customer data […]
UK political parties are failing to protect their members
A security vendor has revealed that UK political parties are failing miserably on email security, ahead of the European elections. It has been discovered that UK political parties participating in the European Parliament elections have a poor take-up of the DMARC protocol. Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) is a solution best utilised to […]