And the hits just keep on coming for Facebook. As of March, Facebook announced that millions of its users’ passwords had been stored on company servers with no encryption. The company also stated that “tens of thousands” of Instagram passwords were also stored in the same unencrypted format. This number has now proven to amount […]
Category: privacy
This is arguably a good thing. Following a wake of subscription scam events in its App Store, Apple has reportedly added a subscription confirmation dialog box to the purchase process. First publicized by developer David Barnard on Twitter, any In-App purchase that is a subscription will have an additional confirmation box after the purchase is approved. […]
Adding to Facebook’s being unable to catch a break, security researchers have uncovered multiple instances of the company’s user data being exposed publicly on Amazon’s cloud servers. It’s currently unknown as to which company is at fault, but in one example, one Mexican business, Cultura Colectiva, was found to be openly storing 540 million Facebook […]
Sometimes hacks are a good thing. Over at the Pwn2Own security conference in Vancouver, no less than two major security flaws were discovered in Apple’s Safari web browser. The flaws, if exploited, could allow an outside party to seize full control of a targeted Mac. Demonstrated by the “phoenhex & qwerty” team during the contest, […]
And this is why you don’t plug random devices into the USB-C ports on your Mac. A group of researchers over at Light Blue Touchpaper have detailed a vulnerability through the Thunderbolt interface with USB-C ports. The attack, if executed correctly, can give hackers full access to data that “should never leave the machine. On […]