If you live in the western hemisphere or the UK, you’re probably not going to like this. Per Bleeping Computer, a massive data leak of some 2.7 billion records may include sensitive personal data for residents of the US, UK, and Canada. The leaked data includes social security numbers, and is said to have come […]
If you downloaded and began playing around with the ChatGPT app for Mac recently, you might want to download the update. According to The Verge, developer Pedro José Pereira Vieito noted that the app was locally storing users’ conversations with the chatbot in unencrypted plain text. “I was curious about why OpenAI opted out of […]
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 […]
This is interesting. According to users who’ve been testing the iOS 10 beta, Apple apparently left the operating system’s kernel unencrypted. Apple confirmed this on Wednesday, citing that the move was performed to streamline system performance. An Apple spokesperson stated that because iOS 10’s kernel cache does not contain sensitive information, it does not need […]