Most people don’t realize that Facebook is selling your information to advertisers without your consent, by monetizing your “shares” and “likes”, according to the Belgian Privacy Commission (BPC). Belgian Courts ruled against Facebook declaring its activities like canvas fingerprinting unlawful and fining them more than the US $ 25 Million PLUS …
Read More »Facebook Onavo VPN Collects User Data Even when it is Disabled
Facebook claims it is concerned about its user´s security and found the way to prove it. In 2013, it bought an Israeli VPN app named Onovo. Last month, it began to request iPhone and Android users to install it. It is supposed to solve cybersecurity problems. The first analysis of …
Read More »Report indicates that Facebook will add end-to-end encryption to Messenger service
A new report indicates that Facebook might be planning on also adding end to end encryption on their messaging service, Messenger. The move would see even stronger encryption on the Facebook Messenger system. It is also that the software might come at the expense of the artificial intelligence features that …
Read More »Messaging apps given one-year deadline to move data to Iranian servers
The Iranian government is ordering all messaging apps in the country to move all of the messages and data they have on their servers and shift them to Iranian servers before they face some consequences. The move which was reported in various news outlets raises concerns about privacy and security …
Read More »Twitter Shuts Anonymous Accounts For Harassment
As the microblogging site prepares to tackle terror-related tweets the new anti-harassment rules of Twitter have seen accounts for hacktivists groups like Anonymous and Ctrl Sec being shut down. The groups which take immediate action when ISIS, a terrorist organization which says it wants to create a new nation for …
Read More »AnonCoders Strike Again: More than 200 websites hacked in India
Darkshadow-tn, a member of Anoncoders, hacked and deformed over 200 websites across India; this is according to official facebook pages of both zone-h andAnoncoders. Darkshadow-tn, a member of the group of hackers called Anoncoders, is responsible for this malicious act of deforming the 200 websites. The website could only display …
Read More »Belgian Facebook Restricted By Privacy Law
European Privacy laws are much stricter than the laws in the US. And lately, Facebook has been hit by a privacy ruling in Belgium which states that all Belgian Facebook users have to sign in to view Facebook pages. In other words, anyone who does not have a Facebook account …
Read More »$500 Billion is the estimated amount that cybercrime costs every year
Based on the various reports of 2015, cybercrime has hit so bad that it is estimated to cost $500 Billion. The study by World Economic Forum says that every year a majority of cybercrime goes undetected. By 2020, the cyber security industry is expected to worth $170 Billion globally. Surveys …
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