Recently an analysis of pre-installed Android software shows that many Android-based third-party operating system vendor abuse of the platform to release built-in data collection services products. The analysis was conducted by the IMDEA Networks...
A non-Chinese user who has a Nokia mobile phone recently found that the mobile phone will send unencrypted data packets to the domain name http://zzhc.vnet.cn. The data includes geographic location, IMEI, SIM card number,...
A study by North Carolina State University (NCSU) scholars showed that some GitHub repositories leak API tokens and cryptographic keys. The researchers analyzed more than one billion GitHub files distributed across millions of repositories....
Hackers have sold hundreds of credentials from government sites and educational institutions in Singapore, as well as detailed information on more than 19,000 stolen bank cards from banks in Singapore. Group-IB, a Russian cybersecurity...
A series of data breaches have occurred in Singapore recently. For example, the medical information of 1.5 million SingHealth patients has been leaked, and the personal information of 14,200 HIV-infected people has been leaked....
Network security company Adversis found that the employees’ dozens of companies openly share the cloud disk service Box enterprise storage account file links, and inadvertently leaked sensitive business and customer data. Although the default...
Recently, a Twitter user, @wothadei revealed that he found a bug in Android TV that caused the user’s private photo to be leaked. When he connected to a Vu Android TV and chose to...
The Facebook app for Android adds a new privacy control option that allows users to block the social network application from locating address information without opening the app. Google requires the app to use geolocation...
2.7 million patient calls to Swedish healthcare hotline were exposed on the Internet. Up to 170,000 hours of call audio containing extremely sensitive information is stored on an open web server without any encryption...
AppCensus’ analysis found that 18,000 Android apps with thousands to hundreds of millions of installs violate Google Play’s advertising ID policy, collecting user’s permanent device identifiers such as serial number, IMEI, WiFi MAC address,...
Mozilla issued a warning to Kenya’s new national identity card. The Kenyan parliament passed a revision of the National Integrated Identity Management System (NIIMS) last month. The NIIMS now requires all Kenyans, immigrants, and...
Google official has now launched a new extension called Password Checkup in the Google Chrome Store to help users detect leaked passwords. After the user installs the extension, it will automatically compare the database...
Recently, a Dutch security researcher accidentally discovered the back door account of the Kremlin, referring to its servers that the government can use to access local and foreign companies operating in Russia. It is...
Earlier this month, the hacker community exposed a huge 87GB database called Collection #1. Security researcher Troy Hunt points out that it includes about 773 million email addresses and 21 million passwords. However, the...
Mozilla recently launched the latest Firefox anti-tracking strategy. The new version of the anti-tracking technique describes that Firefox will block related information tracking by default. These anti-tracking strategies were recently designed by Firefox, which...
According to TechCrunch reports, because of server security breaches, many large US banks leaked more than 24 million financial and banking information, involving a large number of loans and mortgage information. The Elasticsearch database...
