All you Google+ users out there, better backup your data
Google + announced in last December that it is going to shut down its social networking services in April’19. Now, it has started to send emails to all its users notifying them about the service closure and has requested them to take a back up of the data from their respective accounts before the service […]
France imposes 50M Euros penalty on Google for targeted advertising
France data watchdog has imposed a hefty fine of 50 million Euros on Google for making it difficult to users to understand and manage preferences on how their personal information is being used and how they are being targeted by ads. CNIL or the National Commission on Informatics and Liberty is said to have imposed […]
Google throws net neutrality into the air and starts censoring search results for good
Google has started censoring search results says a source from American news website Breitbart and all this is being done for ‘Good’ or for the sake of civility. Its said that the internet juggernaut has started to manually curate search terms and has started to blacklist those which are termed as offending or politically incorrect. […]
Cyber Attack news trending on Google for this day
Cyber attack news is out that hackers succeeded in intercepting the database of popular video game Fortnite through a software glitch. Reports are in that the cyber crooks not only managed to break into the system but also succeeded in accessing sensitive information such as credit card data, personal contacts list and also managed to […]
Cyber Attack news for the day
1.) To all those who are still using Windows 7 operating system loaded PCs and Laptops, here’s a piece of bad news. Microsoft has announced that it is going to end support to its popular operating system from news January and so PCs which run on the said obsolete OS will become vulnerable to cyber […]
How to make your smartphone private
Whether it’s an Apple iPhone or an Android device there is always a snooping threat looming on the users as firms like Google or Facebook refuse to give ownership to their users over data share. Although Apple Inc promotes that it sells products and services as per its consumer’s privacy, there is no guarantee that […]
Important Information about Google+ APIs data breach
Cybersecurity Insiders has already reported about the Google+ data breach last year. And to prove the point further, here’s an email proof which the internet juggernaut is found mailing to its users in order to keep them informed about the cyber incident. Dear Google User, We are writing to inform you of a technical issue […]
Popular Chinese weather app collects sensitive data from users
Popular Chinese weather app has been accused of collecting huge amounts of sensitive info from its users without their consent. “Weather Forecast- World Weather Accurate Radar” is the android application in question and is reported to have a download count of nearly 10 million with over 46,000 reviews on Google Play Store. According to a […]
Google wins Facial Recognition lawsuit targeted at Google Photos
A lawsuit filed by a group of citizens against Google for using Facial Recognition software on the content stored on Google Photos platform was dismissed by the US District Judge Edmond Chang in Chicago last month. The reason- due to lack of concrete evidence that the Alphabet’s subsidiary was playing with its user data by […]
Information Security Digital Privacy law tops EU Google’s Search List 2018
From May 25th, 2018 European Union announced the world’s toughest rules for companies offering online services to the populace of the region. And the internet juggernaut Google has claimed that its search engine was fueled with queries related to the digital privacy law in the whole of 2018. As per the most search stats released […]
