Tag: Disabled
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New Browser Attack Allows Tracking Users Online With JavaScript Disabled
Researchers have discovered a new side-channel that they say can be reliably exploited to leak information from web browsers that could …
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Disabled Delawareans’ Personal Data Ends Up in Student Project
A recent Delaware Department of Health and Social Services data breach resulted in the private data of hundreds of disabled Delawareans’ …
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Zoom Removes Data-Mining LinkedIn Feature
Zoom has nixed a feature that came under fire for “undisclosed data mining” of users’ names and email addresses, used to match them …
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How Microsoft Disabled Legacy Authentication Across the Company
As more organizations adopt modern authentication protocols, legacy authentication poses a growing risk to those who lag behind. The …
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Hackers Who Disabled Police Cameras Prior to Trump Inauguration Left Trail of Clues
Romanian police last month arrested Mihai Isvanca, 25 and Eveline Cismaru, 28 at Bucharest’s Otopeni airport apparently as the pair was …
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Forever 21 Found Malware and Encryption Disabled on its PoS Devices
Forever 21’s investigation into a data breach first reported in November 2017 has revealed malware planted on the retailer’s point-of-sale …
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Dell Now Shipping Laptops With Intel’s Management Engine Disabled
Several years ago, security researchers began sounding the alarm about Intel’s Management Engine (IME). IME support allows the laptop to …
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Google admits tracking users’ location even when setting disabled
Phones running Android have been gathering data about a user’s location and sending it back to Google when connected to the internet, with …
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Wait, did Oracle tip off world to Google’s creepy always-on location tracking in Android?
Analysis Having evidently forgotten about that Street View Wi-Fi-harvesting debacle, Google has admitted constantly collecting the …
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Google Collects Android Users Location Even though you have Turnoff Location Services
Android phones collecting users location data even when you are offline and send it back to google once you have connected to the Internet. …
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Nottinghamshire County Council Exposes Elderly, Disabled PII for 5 Years
The Nottinghamshire County Council in the UK has been fined £70,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office for leaving vulnerable people’s personal information exposed online for five years. The UK’s Data Protection Act requires organizations to take appropriate measures to keep personal data secure, especially when dealing with sensitive information. Read full news article on Infosecurity…
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