Parents are raising a completely new breed of kids. Nowadays, toddlers use mobile devices and teens use text messages to communicate. Many schools have also integrated computers and tablets in their curriculum. To ensure children use the Internet...
Security cameras and other IoT devices have been frequently identified to be incompetent and plagued with a variety of built-in flaws that render them vulnerable to exploitation by hackers. The same has been proven yet again by a team of security...
LifeLock, an Arizona-based identity theft protection firm may have exposed email addresses of millions of its customers - Simply put: A firm vowing to protect online identity of its customers may have exposed their identity to malicious hackers...
In May this year, HackRead reported how an Israeli company Unimania was caught collecting personal, Facebook and browsing data of users through Android apps and Chrome extensions. Now, researchers have discovered another "spyware" campaign aiming...
Are any of our online activities private anymore? That’s the question many people asked after news broke that third-party developers read portions of Gmail messages — and sometimes entire conversations.This practice affects millions of...
Polar Flow, an app developed by Polar, a Finland based sports gadgets manufacture has been found exposing personal and sensitive details of millions of users around the globe including location data of those working for law enforcement...
The National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom has suffered a data breach in which sensitive health-related data of over 150,000 patients have been exposed.The data breach took place due to a coding error in the software used by GPs,...
Most batteries in today's smartphone are intelligent enough to detect how people use their phones and employ power-saving technologies that result in longer battery life. That advantage sounds excellent all around, but recent research suggests...
According to Big Brother Watch, a British privacy advocate, and civil liberties organization, the Voice ID system of HMRC (Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs) has stored voice records of over 5.1 million British citizens - All that without their...
Craig Young, an IT security expert from Tripwire has found an unusual and potentially dangerous privacy flaw in Google Home and Chromecast devices leaking location data of their users.Simply put, the issue lets websites gather exact...
