August 23, 2022 The U.S. healthcare provider Novant Health has confirmed a data breach in which information from 1,362,296 people leaked. The incident was caused by a misconfigured Meta pixel on the Novant Health website and the 'MyChart' portal, more...
August 19, 2022 Accenture, a company that oversees teams of Facebook moderators and other contractors, told workers that their work for Facebook would "soon be taken away." While the reason for the cuts remains unclear, workers were informed more...
August 19, 2022 A new investigation by a former Google engineer has revealed that Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, rewrites websites that its users visit. Meta was able to achieve this thanks to its "in-app more...
August 18, 2022 According to data collected by Kaspersky's Privacy Checker website, 85% of Android users are interested in understanding how to set up privacy settings on their device. 22% of this year's requests (apps) are related to Google more...
August 17, 2022 The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has indicted three people who illegally tipped and traded Equifax securities before the company disclosed a massive data breach. The charged individuals include Ann Dishinger, Lawrence Palmer and Jerrold more...
August 16, 2022 Agari's Cyber Intelligence Report for the second quarter of 2022 shows that the use of "hybrid vishing" has increased by a massive 625% since the first quarter of 2021. However, the report notes that phishing more...
August 16, 2022 Despite criticism that current facial recognition software is biased against people of colour, the RCMP is still interested in the technology, according to the head of the RCMP’s technical support team. “We would be remiss more...
August 12, 2022 Microsoft has withdrawn the Microsoft 365 version 2206 updates after user crash reports. Users explained that their Office applications continue to crash when viewing a contact card or hovering over a user's name or photo. more...
August 12, 2022 A British man, Christopher Paul Trotman, 41, has been sentenced to nine weeks in jail after he used Apple's AirTags to track his ex-lover's car. According to the U.K.'s Daily Mail, Trotman and his ex-lover more...
August 9, 2022 The RCMP keeps adding new information about its court-approved use of spyware on the wireless phones of criminal suspects, leading some members of Parliament frustrated enough to demand more documents from the force. On Monday, more...
