Here you will find all the articles with the tag: Privacy.
Google rolled out the first preview of Android 11 today. The preview is meant for developers who can test their apps earlier on the new Android version. This way they can guarantee compatibility with the new version for users. There is a strong emphasis on privacy and security in the new version... Read more
4 years ago
Avast has pulled the plug on the department responsible for reselling anonymized data to third parties and apologised: for the antivirus firm, these measures have come just too late in the Czech Republic, where an investigation has already been started into Avast's practices. At the end of Janua... Read more
4 years ago
Avast has sold data of users through an intermediary called Jumpshot. That data should be anonymous and not retraceable to the original user. Research has shown that it was possible to trace the data back to individual users which let to a privacy scandal. Now Avast CEO, Ondrej Vlcek has pulled the... Read more
4 years ago
Instead of being able to see and hear who is at the door, Ring users are being harassed after hackers have gained access to their cameras. In America, several reports have been going around in the last few days from owners of a Ring camera, indicating that strangers can play sound through the sp... Read more
4 years ago
Should the German government decide to exclude Huawei from participation in the 5G infrastructure in Germany, China will retaliate. The Chinese ambassador to Germany has informed the Handelsblatt about this in the context of the discussion about the 5G products. A few months ago, the German gove... Read more
4 years ago
Adobe is dealing with a data breach. Last week it turned out that 7.5 million Adobe Creative Cloud accounts had been leaked through an incorrectly configured database. The database has now been taken offline. The data leak was discovered by security researcher Bob Diachenko and Comparitech. It w... Read more
4 years ago
Box revealed a series of improvements to help companies secure their critical information, facilitate internal and external collaboration, and encourage better workflows. The updates should also lead to better integration of content into all applications used by teams within companies. Box annou... Read more
5 years ago
Expert talks
More haste, less speed: this also applies to the digital transformation of companies. Companies are often inclined to want to change as quickly as possible and use technologies and strategies that seem appropriate for this purpose. This is also reflected in cloud adoption. Today, most organizations... Read more
5 years ago
The widely used VPNs Fortigate and Pulse Secure are the target of cyber-attacks that try to get hold of sensitive user data. The VPNs, which are installed on some 530,000 servers, have a number of weaknesses if they are not patched. The weaknesses in these VPNs can be exploited by sending web re... Read more
5 years ago
A number of app developers have written a letter to Tim Cook, Apple's CEO. The group believes that certain changes in iOS 13 lead to negative effects on the development of their apps. In iOS 13, a number of changes have been made in terms of privacy. Apple is trying to prevent the misuse of locat... Read more
5 years ago
