Security
Cloudflare announces Warp: a free VPN that it claims will actually respect your privacy
Cloudflare claims that its Warp VPN will not write any user-identifiable log data to disk, will purge all debug logs within 24 hours, and will not require any personally identifiable information to start using the service.
Cyber attacks on smart home connected devices are up 217.5% year-on-year
Current estimates are that 75 billion connected IoT devices will be in use by 2025, in other words, they will continue to provide ever bigger and more appealing attack vectors to hackers.
A Google Photos bug exposed user locations on the web
Imperva security researcher Ron Masas’ proof-of-concept showed that the photos’ metadata could be discovered by taking advantage of the flaw.
Chinese data leak exposes 364 million social media profiles, names, IDs, numbers, photos, private conversations
It is well known that China monitors conversations and social media accounts of its citizens.
Facebook won’t let users opt-out of its privacy-violating phone number look up tool
This follows Facebook pushing users to submit their phone number in order to secure their account via two-factor authentication last year.
The dangerous Australian anti-encryption law is leaving people open to cyber attacks
When such backdoors are placed in what was supposed to be end-to-end encrypted system, the user data is no longer completely encrypted and is more likely to be targeted cyber attacks.
New Study Reveals That a Third of Chrome Extensions Can Access Your User Data on Any Site
The study also revealed that 31.8% of Chrome extensions use JavaScript libraries with known vulnerabilities and 9% of Chrome extensions can access and read your cookie files.
VFEmail Hack: This Devastating Attack on The Email Hosting Company Is Also An Attack On Independent Tech
This highlights a problem that smaller independent tech companies face – a reduced ability to cope with more serious cyber threats.