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Facebook says that it hovered many thousands of apps, and as part of the research it awakens the Analytics data of Cambridge harvesting the indignity. Facebook said that not all the apps pose a threat to the individuals and moreover, it is also said that the hovering apps were linked with 400 developers. The organization came under the pressure in 2018 and after that, it was exposed that Cambridge Analytical had accessed the data of many individuals without consent. The consultancy firm is supposed to use this data – harvest…

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Recently we published new about Kaspersky found malware in popular CamScanner app and Google removed 24 malware-infected apps from play store. But this is not the end of malware, there is evidence of new viruses or security breaches every day. Just now, Andy Michael, an independent security researcher from New Zealand, has published the Adware report from the Google Play Store apps. According to him, some of the major VPN apps, which have 500+ million users, show ads not only in the background while runner the app but capture home…

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Revelations by Greenbone Networks was built over the report which found 24 million records that were connected to more than 700 million images, of which 400 million were essentially downloadable from devices located in 52 countries around the world. “More than 13.7 million medical tests data in the US were obtainable online, containing more than 400,000 in which images and other X-rays could be downloaded,” is said in the report. The result published by the exploratory German broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk and journalism non-profit found 187 insecure servers in the United…

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Android just can’t look like to shake off its malware issues. A new malware campaign targeting Android has been found to connect in ad fraud at least since early June 2019. The findings, disclosed by cyber-security firm CSIS Security Group, disclose that the malware known as Joker is designed to secretly sign up users for premium service subscriptions, in addition to theft the victim’s contact list, SMS messages, and device information. In total, CSIS found 24 Android apps on Google Play that are described below and contains the malware, Trojan,…

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Last week, Mozilla said that its Firefox browser would block the third party trackers for everyone by default and yesterday, Firefox announced a new product that could give Firefox customers even more privacy on the web: the Firefox Private Network, which claims to be “an encrypted, secure path to the web” — basically, a Firefox-made VPN (though Mozilla never calls it one).   The Mozilla Firefox Private Network seems like that it could be useful, but it has its limits. It’s a Firefox browser-based VPN, so it won’t mask anything…

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Wikipedia is one of the biggest storehouses of human knowledge on the planet and also the seventh most popular website in the world with more than a billion devices accessing it every month. Wikipedia has also just been strike by a “DDoS attack” that took it offline across many countries. Here’s what is identified so far.   Wikipedia down                                                   Wikipedia has confirmed that it was strike…

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Scraping site without permission likely doesn’t violate illegal laws as long as the data is public, a US court has concluded. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said LinkedIn most likely couldn’t tell an analytics company to stop pulling profile information from its platform. LinkedIn had sent the HiQ, company, a cease-and-desist letter — which has been enough to declare companies “unauthorized” in earlier cases.    An appeals court situated in California, US, today said it’s not illegal to scrape data from public websites without any preceding authorization. Web scraping…

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Researchers have found sober security vulnerabilities in over 600,000 GPS trackers available for sale on Amazon and other online retail merchants that have exposed individual data, including accurate real-time GPS coordinates. Czech cyber-security firm Avast, which disclosed the vulnerabilities, said it clued-up the manufacturer about the flaws on June 24, 2019, but added that they never got a response to their repeated messages.   The trackers — 31 models in all that are made by Chinese IoT manufacturer Shenzhen i365 Tech — allowed individuals to keep tabs on their children’s’…

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Be cautious! Attackers can distantly take control your Android device and steal the data stored on it if you are using the free version of CamScanner, a highly-popular Phone PDF creator app with 100+ million downloads on Google Play Store. So, be secure, and just uninstall the CamScanner app from your Android device, as Google has already removed the app from its official Play Store. Regrettably, CamScanner has just gone rascal as researchers found Trojan-Dropper.AndroidOS.Necro.n – a hidden Trojan-Dropper module within the app that could permit remote attackers to secretly…

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Based in France, Option Way has the client base around the world and helps individuals find flight deals to and from various destinations. Here, according to a reported security research firm VPNMentor, the website was leaking 100 GB worth of unsecured client data to the public internet. Option way claims that the website is confined by an SSL certificate. This should encrypt the data transaction made to the website, as they are processed in line with the recommendation set out by the CNIL i.e. France’s data protection authority. Moreover, the…

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