Google+ is Shutting Down After a Vulnerability Exposed 500,000 Users' Data

Google is going to shut down its social media network Google+ after the company suffered a massive data breach that exposed the private data of hundreds of thousands of Google Plus users to third-party developers. According to the tech giant, a security vulnerability in one of Google+'s People AP...

Maybe you shouldn’t use LinkedIn

UPDATE: 4/6/2018 LinkedIn reached out for comment on the article, and we'd like to clarify our position based on their concerns. They wrote: Members control their connections, who can see them including keeping them private if they wish and only first degree connections can get access to your...

Announcing the Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection ISO 27001 audit assessment report

The security and privacy of customer data are our top priority. Our goals are simple: to operate our services with the security and privacy you expect from Microsoft, and to give you accurate assurances about our security and privacy practices. In line with our commitment to provide customers the...

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...

Facebook Opens ThreatExchange Information Sharing Platform

Facebook, with its giant infrastructure and its equally wide view into Internet attacks, has built an information-sharing platform that it hopes will entice other big technology companies to join and contribute threat data and indicators of compromise. The platform, called ThreatExchange, already...

Mozilla Deploying High-capacity Tor Middle Relays

Back in November, Mozilla teamed-up with Tor Project under a new initiative called Polaris, in order to help reduce finite number of Tor connections occurring at the same time by adding high-capacity Tor middle relays to the Tor network, and now the company is ready with its first Tor Middle...

Facebook Introduces Anonymous Login to Limit Third-party App Permissions

We're comfortable in sharing information with our Facebook friends, but it is quite sneaky for Facebook users to offer their Identities and credentials when logging in to third-party apps, they don’t trust. To deal with this issue, the social network giant has plans to improve the way users login...

Facebook Friends Disclosure

Facebook Vulnerability Discloses Friends Lists Defined as Private ================================================= Researchers from the Quotium Seeker Research Center identified a security flaw in Facebook privacy controls. The vulnerability allows attackers to see the friends list of any user o...

Facebook Streamlines Privacy Controls in Latest Update

In what may be the least surprising news of the day, Facebook is again making changes to its privacy controls. The existing privacy controls, which we explored in depth in our How-To Video on the subject, are a bit convoluted. So it makes sense that product manager Samuel Lessin is rolling out so...

Report: Google Negotiating with FTC over Apple Safari Privacy Breach

Search giant Google is in negotiations with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission FTC over the size of a fine it will pay. This, after the company was found in breach of privacy controls in Apple’s Safari browser earlier this year. According to an article from the Bloomberg news service, an unnamed...

Consumer Reports: 13 Million Facebook Users Ignore Privacy Settings

A Consumer Reports investigation indicates 13 million U.S. Facebook users are oversharing — and likely don’t know it. That figure represents 8 percent of Facebook’s 150 million U.S. users, but it is part of an upward trend in users failing to protect themselves while on the social network — putti...

EU Gets Tough: Gives Google Two Weeks To Explain Data Practices

A French data privacy watchdog is raising alarms about Google’s data collection practices and has given the Internet search giant a little over two weeks to explain the way it handles the information of its users. The Commission Nationale de l’Informatique CNIL sent a letter .PDF late last week t...

Feeling Heat Facebook Adds Google+ Like Privacy Controls

History has taught us that monopolies are bad for consumers. It was true in the first decades of the 20th century with Standard Oil, and in the final decade of the same century with Microsoft. Its been true, in recent years, with social networking behemoth, Facebook, also. But now, with Google’s...

The unofficial guide to Facebook privacy !

To fully understand the privacy of Facebook and how it's likely to evolve, you need to understand one thing - Facebook executives want everyone to be public. As the service evolves, executives tend to favor our open access to information, meaning information you think is private will slowly becom...

FTC Pushes "Do Not Track" Option For Web Browsers

The Federal Trade Commission introduced a framework today that aims to address privacy issues raised by consumers that directly affects how our activity is tracked online. The agency went on to advocate the creation of a “Do Not Track” mechanism that could help shape the future of browser securit...

Facebook Improves User Privacy Controls

In a move hailed by privacy advocates, Facebook deployed a feature that allows its users to better control what personal information can be accessed by third-party applications and websites. Read the full article. The Register...

More Privacy Controls Coming to Facebook

From The New York Times Riva Richmond Facebook launched a beta test today that foreshadows new privacy controls coming to “Publisher” – the box at the top of your home and profile pages where you add content. The changes will let you easily specify who among your friends gets to see that specific...