A malicious app can exploit the issue, which could affect up to 30 percent of Android phones. [...]

On top of the privacy spill, Peloton is also recalling all treadmills after the equipment was linked to 70 injuries and the death of one child. [...]

Privacy advocates fear Coalition’s proposed data-sharing law could allow for robodebt-style tactics Australians’ personal information could be accessed by government agencies and researchers without their consent under proposed data-sharing legislation that critics say could pave the way for more robodebt-style tactics. In a speech at an Australian Financial …

Sorry, we’ve upchucked your COVID test results and other medical and personal data into public GitHub storage buckets, the Wyoming Department of Health said. [...]

Now that we’re starting to get widespread COVID vaccination “vaccine passports” have started to become more relevant. The idea behind a vaccine passport is that you would have some kind... Read more The post Notes on Implementing Vaccine Passports appeared first on The Mozilla Blog. [...]

The second-largest auto insurance provider in the U.S. has since fixed the vulnerability that exposed information from its website. [...]

Joseph Carson, chief security scientist at Thycotic, discusses the death of data privacy and what comes next. [...]

Clubhouse denies it was ‘breached’ and says the data is out there for anyone to grab. [...]

A man caught in an FBI sting allegedly said he wanted to destroy "70 percent of the internet" by going after the tech giant's data centers. [...]

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Q Link Wireless, a provider of low-cost mobile phone and data services to 2 million US-based customers, has been making sensitive account data available to anyone who knows a valid phone number on the carrier’s network, an analysis of the company’s account management …

The flaw that caused the leak of personal data of more than 533 million users over the weekend no longer exists; however, the social media giant still faces an investigation by EU regulators. [...]

According to Wired, Signal is adding support for the cryptocurrency MobileCoin, “a form of digital cash designed to work efficiently on mobile devices while protecting users’ privacy and even their anonymity.” Moxie Marlinspike, the creator of Signal and CEO of the nonprofit that runs it, describes the new payments …

A massive operation offers access to hacked camera feeds in bedrooms and at hotels. [...]

An estimated 32 million, of the half-billion of Facebook account details posted online, were tied to US-based accounts. [...]

Google’s Pixel and Apple’s iPhone both in privacy hot seat for siphoning mobile device data without consent. [...]

Enlarge / Insomnia people and mobile-addiction concepts. (credit: Getty Images ) Whether you have an iPhone or an Android device, it’s continuously sending data including your location, phone number, and local network details to Apple or Google. Now, a researcher has provided a side-by-side comparison that suggests that, while both …

A class-action suit in Florida accuses the tech giant of unlawfully intercepting communications by using session-replay software to capture the interaction of people visiting the corporate homepage Intel.com. [...]

CEO says Apple rejected a security update needed to protect human-rights abuse evidence. [...]

TikTok’s source code is in line with industry standards, security researchers say. [...]

The arts-and-crafts retailer left 138GB of sensitive information open to the public internet. [...]

A Florida high-school student faces jail time for rigging her school's Homecoming Queen election. [...]

Interesting research: “ Who Can Find My Devices? Security and Privacy of Apple’s Crowd-Sourced Bluetooth Location Tracking System “: Abstract: Overnight, Apple has turned its hundreds-of-million-device ecosystem into the world’s largest crowd-sourced location tracking network called offline finding (OF). OF leverages online finder devices to detect the presence of …

Sky ECC claims that cops cracked a fake version of the app being passed off by disgruntled reseller. [...]

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hackers say they broke into the network of Silicon Valley startup Verkada and gained access to live video feeds from more than 150,000 surveillance cameras the company manages for Cloudflare, Tesla, and a host of other organizations. The group published videos and images they …

Researchers have identified two vulnerabilities in the company’s crowd-sourced Offline Finding technology that could jeopardize its promise of privacy. [...]