privacy

Pierluigi Paganini November 16, 2022
Beginning 2023 Google plans to rollout the initial Privacy Sandbox Beta

Google announced it will roll out the Privacy Sandbox system for Android in beta to a limited number of Android 13 devices in early 2023. Google announced it will roll out the Privacy Sandbox for Android in beta to mobile devices running Android 13 starting early next year. The Privacy Sandbox aims at creating technologies to […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 15, 2022
Google to Pay a record $391M fine for misleading users about the collection of location data

Google is going to pay $391.5 million to settle with 40 states in the U.S. for secretly collecting personal location data. Google has agreed to pay $391.5 million to settle with 40 US states for misleading users about the collection of personal location data. The settlement is the largest attorney general-led consumer privacy settlement ever, […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 03, 2022
Updated TikTok Privacy Policy confirms that Chinese staff can access European users’ data

TikTok updated its privacy policy for European Economic Area (“EEA”) and confirmed that its Chinese staff can access their users’ data. The short-form video-sharing service TikTok updated its privacy policy for European Economic Area (“EEA”), the UK, and Switzerland and confirmed that its users’ data can be accessed by its personnel, including Chinese employees. European user data […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 29, 2022
How will Twitter change under Elon Musk?

Cybhorus CEO Pierluigi Paganini talks to TRT World about Elon Musk completing his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter and what changes he will make to the social media platform. Of course, the first impact will be on the leadership, Elon Musk was critical in the past with Agrawal’s leadership. Musk will also take action […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 01, 2022
1,859 Android and iOS apps were containing hard-coded Amazon AWS credentials

Researchers discovered 1,859 Android and iOS apps containing hard-coded Amazon Web Services (AWS) credentials. Researchers from Broadcom Symantec’s Threat Hunter team discovered 1,859 Android and iOS apps containing hard-coded Amazon Web Services (AWS) credentials that allowed access to private cloud services. The experts pointed out that most of the apps containing hard-coded Amazon Web Services […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 26, 2022
Do not use Tails OS until a flaw in the bundled Tor Browser will be fixed

The maintainers of the Tails project (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) warn users that the Tor Browser bundled with the OS could expose their sensitive information. The maintainers confirmed that Tor Browser in Tails 5.0 and earlier is unsafe to use for sensitive information. “We recommend that you stop using Tails until the release of 5.1 […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 21, 2022
Italy’s data privacy watchdog investigates how Kaspersky manages Italian users’ data

Italy’s data privacy watchdog launched an investigation into the “potential risks” associated with the use of Russian antivirus software Kaspersky. Italy’s data privacy watchdog has launched an investigation into potential risks associated with the use of the Kaspersky antivirus. The Italian authority aims at verifying how the Russian company processes the data of Italian users […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 15, 2022
Remote sex toys might spice up your love life – but crooks could also get a kick out of them

A CyberNews investigation has revealed that Lovense remote sex toy users might be at risk from threat actors, due to poor security features. Original post: https://cybernews.com/privacy/remote-sex-toys-might-spice-up-your-love-life-but-crooks-could-also-get-a-kick-out-of-them/ Lovense boasts that its teledildonic sex toys will spice up your sexual relationship. By using wireless remote control, you can customize vibrations and adjust them to your body, or […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 06, 2022
France hits Google, Facebook with fines over ‘Cookies’ management

The French data privacy and protection authority hit Google and Facebook with 210 million euros ($237 million) in fines. France’s National Commission on Informatics and Liberty (CNIL), the French data privacy and protection authority, hit Facebook and Google with 60 million euro ($68 million) and 150 million euro ($170 million) fines respectively. The CNIL fined […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 02, 2021
Russian internet watchdog Roskomnadzor bans six more VPN services

Russia’s internet watchdog, ‘Roskomnadzor’, has announced the ban of other VPN products, 15 VPN services are now illegal in Russia Russian communications watchdog Roskomnadzor tightens the control over the Internet and blocked access to six more VPN services. The latest banned services are Betternet, Lantern, X-VPN, Cloudflare WARP, Tachyon VPN, PrivateTunnel. The total number of […]