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Hackers selling data of 130 million Chinese hotel clients on Dark Web for 8 BTC
Now, this could easily be termed as one of the largest ever data hacks in the history of…
September 2, 2018
Cell-Site surveillance devices (Stingray) could disrupt 911 emergency calls
Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon has made startling new revelations about CSS or cell-site stimulators. These cell surveillance…
August 30, 2018
iKeyMonitor: A parental control app ensuring safety of your child
Parents are raising a completely new breed of kids. Nowadays, toddlers use mobile devices and teens use text…
August 6, 2018
Flaw in Swann smart security cameras allows access to user’s live stream
Security cameras and other IoT devices have been frequently identified to be incompetent and plagued with a variety…
July 28, 2018
Identity theft protection firm LifeLock may have exposed user email addresses
LifeLock, an Arizona-based identity theft protection firm may have exposed email addresses of millions of its customers –…
July 27, 2018
Popular Android/iOS apps & Extensions collecting highly personal user data
In May this year, HackRead reported how an Israeli company Unimania was caught collecting personal, Facebook and browsing data…
July 26, 2018
Who’s Reading Your Gmail Messages?
Are any of our online activities private anymore? That’s the question many people asked after news broke that…
July 12, 2018
Polar fitness app exposed location data of users in military & airbases
Polar Flow, an app developed by Polar, a Finland based sports gadgets manufacture has been found exposing personal and…
July 9, 2018
NHS data breach exposed sensitive health data of 150,000 patients
The National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom has suffered a data breach in which sensitive health-related…
July 3, 2018
Are Your Smartphones’ Batteries Spying on You?
Most batteries in today’s smartphones are intelligent enough to detect how people use their phones and employ power-saving…
June 28, 2018