Privacy

Windows, IE11 Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Chained In Targeted Attack An advanced threat actor exploited one of the two zero-day vulnerabilities that Microsoft patched on Tuesday in a targeted attack earlier this year. The adversary chained two flaws in Windows, both unknown at the time of the attack, in an attempt to achieve remote Read more…

US Shares Info On Election Interference Tied To Russia, China, Iran The Director of the U.S. National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) today shared information on ongoing election influence efforts linked to Russia, China, and Iran, before the 2020 U.S. elections. NCSC Director William Evanina said today that foreign governments’ each have their own Read more…

Employee Monitoring – What Are The Data Privacy Rules? With more people working from home than ever before, many financial institutions are using employee monitoring software to observe remote working practices. Iain Bourne discusses the data privacy implications. Recording client phone conversations is a regulatory requirement for many firms in Read more…

Microsoft Is In Talks To Buy Social App TikTok Microsoft has held talks to buy the TikTok video-sharing mobile app from Chinese owner ByteDance, one person close to the situation said. This person characterized the talks as having been underway for some time, rather than being brand new.  A TikTok acquisition Read more…

Trump Says He Will Ban TikTok President Donald Trump said Friday night that he will ban the popular short-form video app TikTok from operating in the United States, rejecting a potential deal for Microsoft to buy the app from its Chinese-owned parent company. “As far as TikTok is concerned, we’re Read more…

Siemens To Let Staff Spend Less Time In The Office Permanently BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s Siemens (SIEGn.DE) has decided to let its employees work from wherever they want for two or three days a week, in the latest example of how the coronavirus is making major companies re-think how and Read more…

Twitter Hackers Read Private Messages Of 36 High-Profile Accounts Twitter today admitted that the attackers behind last week’s incident read the private messages of 36 out of a total of 130 high-profile accounts targeted in the attack. Among these, the hackers also accessed the Twitter inbox of Geert Wilders, a Dutch elected official and the leader Read more…

An Update On Our Security Incident As our investigation continues, we’re sharing an update to answer some of the remaining questions based on what we’ve discovered to date. We will provide a more detailed technical report on what occurred at a later date given the ongoing law enforcement investigation and Read more…

US Indicts Hackers Working With China’s Ministry Of State Security Two hackers working with China’s Ministry of State Security were charged with hacking into computer systems of government organizations and companies in the United States and around the world, stealing terabytes of data in the process. Chinese nationals and residents LI Read more…

TikTok and Other Apps Are Secretly Reading Your Clipboard A new privacy feature in iOS 14 has exposed a number of popular apps and raised concerns about clipboard privacy. In the video above, I explain why this is concerning, but not something to panic about. One small feature in iOS Read more…