FTC Warns Smartphone App Developers About Audio Monitoring
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has sent warning letters to 12 smartphone app developers for allegedly violating users’ privacy by embedding audio monitoring software within their products. The...
View ArticleSWIFT Asks Customers To Help Fight Bank Fraud
Financial transaction network SWIFT is asking its customers to help it end a string of high-profile banking frauds perpetrated using its network. The SWIFT network itself is still secure, it insisted...
View ArticleMicrosoft Goes After Repeat Software Pirate In Court
Microsoft filed suit against a Wisconsin man for allegedly selling stolen Windows and Office activation codes, claiming in court documents that he is a repeat pirate who still owes the company $1.2...
View ArticleFacebook, Google Offer Up Plan To Stop Spread Of ‘Fake News’
Alphabet Inc’s Google and Facebook Inc both announced plans geared towards halting the spread of “fake news” on the internet by targeting how some purveyors of phony content make money: advertising....
View ArticleWill Facebook Get Acquired By Evil Google?
Information leaked suggests that talks are well advanced between the two companies.
View ArticleFacebook Illegally Collecting Personal Data, Says German Court
A German consumer rights group revealed that a court had found Facebook’s use of personal data to be illegal because the U.S. social media platform did not adequately secure the informed consent of its...
View ArticleEncrypted Chat App Receives Cash Injection
Signal, the popular technology designed to keep prying eyes out of instant messages and other digital communications, has just gotten a $50 million shot in the arm. The Signal Protocol is used in...
View ArticleIs Mozilla Giving Facebook Ads The Boot
"While we believe there is still more to learn, we found that its current default settings leave access open to a lot of data - particularly with respect to settings for third-party apps.
View ArticleDe Beers Finds A New Use For Blockchain
Anglo American’s De Beers announced that it had tracked 100 high-value diamonds from miner to retailer using blockchain, in the first effort of its kind to clear the supply chain of imposters and...
View ArticleCambridge Analytica Seeks Bankruptcy Protection In The United States
Cambridge Analytica, the political consultancy at the center of Facebook Inc’s privacy scandal, has filed for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy in the United States. This past March allegations surfaced that...
View ArticlePhone Tracking Firm LocationSmart Under FCC Investigation
LocationSmart has been known to brag that it could find any phone in the US. Now the company is finding itself under investigation. The Federal Communications Commission has opened an investigation...
View ArticleDoes Facebook Need Blockchain
IBM blockchain client Walmart is tracking the supply chain of the fruits and vegetables it sells on a blockchain, potentially allowing it to quickly get to the root of a problem and do an “instant...
View ArticleMicrosoft Accused Of Bribery
Investigators became concerned that the middleman companies used the difference to pay bribes and kickbacks to government officials.
View ArticleIT Professional Goes To Twitter To Expose About Zero-Day Flaw
Maybe if I somehow manage to find one good bug, I can sell i for alot of money so I don't have to do this stupid work anymore for a while. I think I'll do that. — SandboxEscaper (@SandboxEscaper) 27...
View ArticleDrones Causes London Airport To Suspend All Flights
One of the UK’s busiest airports suspended or diverted all flights after drones were spotted over its airfield. The disruption at Gatwick Airport, which is 30 miles south of London and Britain’s second...
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