Cyber criminals have hacked popular food delivery app Deliveroo. The hackers have been breaking into customers’ accounts and ordering fast food without their permission. Accounts holders...
read morePersonal student data has been stolen in a data breach at Lancaster University. The “sophisticated and malicious” cyber-attack was discovered last Friday and an incident team was set up t...
read moreThere’s a new feature on Facebook called ‘Page Transparency’. The tech giant says it has introduced this new feature to increase accountability and transparency of pages. To access t...
read morePopular messaging service Slack is to reset the user passwords for thousands of customers after a historic data breach. Around one percent of all Slack users are thought to be affected by the...
read moreThe AI powered FaceApp has taken social media by storm over the past couple of days. Facebook, Twitter and Instagram feeds have been bombarded with altered photos of people, showing how they ...
read moreGerman schools have barred the use of cloud-based Microsoft Office 365 software following fears over data privacy. Schools in the state of Hesse have been told they can longer use it after th...
read moreAmerican authorities have approved a $5 billion fine against Facebook over the sharing of data with political consultancy Cambridge Analytica. The Justice Department is now expecte...
read moreThe Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has issued British Airways with a huge penalty after the personal details of more than 500,000 customers were stolen from its website and app. The ...
read moreThe Tory Party leadership race has been blighted by claims of data breaches after Jeremy Hunt supporters were “spammed” with unsolicited emails asking for their support. Amid allegations ...
read morePopular video-sharing app TikTok is being investigated for possible data breaches over the handling of personal data. In particular, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is looking a...
read moreA piece of data may be classed as personal data in the hands of one organisation but may not be classed as personal data in the hands of another. It all depends on what purpose the organisati...
read moreThe Metropolitan Police Service have failed to respond to Subject Access Requests (SAR’s) for personal data quick enough, the ICO has revealed. The Information Commissioner’s Office has i...
read moreChildren will be put at risk if Facebook’s plans to encrypt its services go ahead, according to the NSPCC. Chief Executive Peter Wanless has warned that the social media giant is putting pr...
read moreBitcoin is the internet’s version of money. These are pieces of unique digital money that can be transferred from one person to another. The coins are generated using an open-source compute...
read moreChanging your password every so often is simply not enough now to protect your privacy and online security. Advances in technology mean that unless you are using something like a VPN (virtual pr...
read moreThere has been a huge surge in Google searches about VPN’s, ever since the government announced plans to check ID’s for access to porn sites. The ban on instant access to well-known porn ...
read moreA new device has been developed that can allegedly unlock and extract data from new hi-tech Smartphones and iPads. The new gizmo has been developed for the police and intelligent agencies by ...
read moreThe British intelligence agency MI5 been unlawfully retaining innocent people’s data for years. At a judicial review of the spy agency’s activities, lawyers for privacy watchdog group&nbs...
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