Google makes it mandatory for Chrome Apps to tell Users what Data they collect

In Brief Chrome apps and extensions make things easier, but they can also do terrible things like spy on web users and collect their personal data. But, now Google has updated its browser’s User Data Policy requiring all Chrome extension and app developers to disclose what data they collect...

ISPs Sell Your Data to Advertisers, But FCC has a Plan to Protect Privacy

The Federal Communication Commission FCC has put forward a proposal that aims to protect Internet user's privacy. The proposal pdf will regulate the amount of customers’ online data the Internet Service Providers ISPs are able to collect and sell to the advertising companies. Currently, there is ...

NSA's Rogers Quiet on Apple-FBI Debate at RSA

SAN FRANCISCO—National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command director Admiral Michael S. Rogers stood before tens of thousands of RSA Conference attendees on Tuesday and asked for help. In what has almost become a speaking slot reserved for the government to use as a recruiting pitch of some sor...

Today NSA has Stopped its Bulk Phone Surveillance Program

Rejoice! From this morning, you can call freely to anyone, talk anything without any fear of being spied by the United States National Security Agency NSA, as the agency is not allowed to collect bulk phone records. Until now we all are aware of the NSA's bulk phone surveillance program – thanks ...

Pinpointing Targets: Exploiting Web Analytics to Ensnare Victims

Over the past year, FireEye Threat Intelligence has identified suspected nation-state sponsored cyber-actors engaged in a large-scale reconnaissance effort. This effort makes use of web analytics—the technologies to collect, analyze, and report data The individuals behind this activity have amass...

Privatoria — Best VPN Service for Fast, Anonymous and Secure Browsing

PRIVACY – a bit of an Internet buzzword nowadays. Why? Because the business model of the Internet has now become data collection. If you trust Google, Facebook or other Internet giants to be responsible managers of your data, the ongoing Edward Snowden revelations are making it all clear that thi...

Social Media Mining: MassMine

MassMine is a social media mining and archiving application that simplifies the process of collecting and managing large amounts of data across multiple sources. It is designed with the researcher in mind, providing a flexible framework for tackling individualized research needs. MassMine is...

Microsoft Responds To Windows 10 Spying Concerns, But It will Still Collect Your Data

After a number of controversial data mining features and privacy invasions within Microsoft's newest operating system, Microsoft finally broke the ice, almost two months since the launch of Windows 10. Microsoft has finally responded to the growing privacy concerns around its new operating system...

'The Hacker News' Weekly Roundup — 14 Most Popular Stories

To make the last week’s top cyber security threats and challenges available to you in one shot, we are once again here with our weekly round up. Last week, we came across lots of cyber security threats like the XCodeGhost malware in Apple’s App Store and lockscreen bypass bug in iOS 9 and iOS 9.0...

AVG Antivirus Plans to Collect & Sell Your Personal Data to Advertisers

We at The Hacker News are big fans of Security Software – The first thing we install while setting our Computers and Devices. Thanks to Free Security Software that protects Internet users without paying for their security. But, Remember: Nothing comes for FREE "Free" is just a relative term, as o...

IOT Security Pits Regulators Against Market

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Listening to today’s privacy panel at the Security of Things Forum, you might have thought you were beamed back to the early 2000s: government people hinting that legislation might be the ultimate solution for security and privacy concerns when it comes to embedded computers an...

Reminder! If You Haven't yet, Turn Off Windows 10 Keylogger Now

Do you know? Microsoft has the power to track every single word you type or say to its digital assistant Cortana while using its newest operating system, Windows 10. Last fall, we reported about a 'keylogger' that Microsoft openly put into its Windows 10 Technical Preview saying the company 'may...

Just Like Windows 10, Windows 7 and 8 Also Spy on You – Here’s How to Stop Them

No plan to install Windows 10 due to Microsoft's controversial data mining and privacy invasions within the operating system? Well, Windows 7 and Windows 8 OS users should also be worried as Windows 10 spying is now headed their way too… Microsoft has been caught installing latest updates onto...

AT&T Facilitated NSA Surveillance Efforts

Telecommunication giant AT&T facilitated, to a larger degree than any other provider, the National Security Agency’s surveillance reach beyond domestic telephone data collection to email and Internet traffic, companion New York Times and ProPublica articles said on Saturday. It’s probably the...

Tip — Installing Windows 10‬? Fix 35+ Privacy Issues With Just One Click

So you finally upgraded your system to Windows 10 and became one those 70 Million users. No doubt, Windows 10 is the Windows best version released by Microsoft, but you need to know that it does not offer much privacy by default. Windows 10 is making many headlines these days, even it made me to...

NSA to Destroy Bulk Collection of Surveillance Data

The National Security Agency will restrict access to, and ultimately destroy, millions of US phone records previously collected by the spy agency, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence ODNI announced Monday. The federal law was passed in June ending the NSA’s bulk collection of U.S...

How Google Is Tracking Your Movie and Event Activities

No doubt, You must be aware that Google tracks you, but what you probably did not realize is how precisely and till what extent it tracks you. Well, Google knows which movies I watched where, when, at what time and with how many of my friends, and knows it so well — even my eyebrows raised slight...

NSA Wants To Track Smartphone Users Based on How They Type and Swipe

Just the way you swipe your smartphone screen is enough for your smartphone to identify you. Yes, it’s a Fact, not Fiction! The United States National Security Agency NSA has a new technology that can identify you from the way your finger swipe strokes and text on a smartphone screen, according t...

Privacy Goal: More Controls in Users' Hands

SAN FRANCISCO – The same companies that brought, among other things, facial recognition into your living rooms and the ability to record video to your eyewear, swear the next big thing in privacy is putting more controls in your hand. The privacy officers of Microsoft, Google and Facebook said...

New Coalition Launches Fight Against Patriot Act Section 215

A broad group of civil-rights, technology and political groups from across the spectrum has developed a new initiative to advocate for the repeal of Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act, the part that provides the authority for the bulk collection of phone metadata and other information. The new...