Privacy
All old Android phones to get the latest mobile security update from Google
Google has announced that it will roll out an additional security feature to all the smart phone devices operating on the Android 6 OS version and above in coming days. Yes, the company has rolled out a special privacy protection feature to all its devices that could block malware and malicious ad trackers from accessing […]
UK new information security commissioner is John Edwards
United Kingdom has issued a press update on the appointment of its next information commissioner and reports are because it is going to be John Edwards, who’s currently serving as Privacy Commissioner for New Zealand since 2014. Factually speaking, an Information Commissioner plays a vital role in regurgitating data flow between companies and their customers, […]
NHS to share UK Patient data with a notorious US Company
A few days ago, NHS revealed that its patient records that include medical history, gender, name, contact details, and addresses will be shared with third-party firms that could use that data in the research and development of medicines for life-threatening diseases and infections such as COVID 19 aka Wuhan Virus- developed by China in Oct […]
UK NHS to share data causing data privacy concerns among patients
NHS UK has made a public announcement yesterday that it is going to share the data of its patients with third parties that are involved in AI-based research and development programs that benefit the field of Medicine. However, the patients have the option of opting out of this latest update, provided they fill in a […]
HEALTHCARE PRIVACY–BIGGER THAN JUST HIPAA
This post was originally published by (ISC)² Management. Security Without Regulatory Muscle As a security practitioner, you may have worked in an industry that was not affected by any regulatory authority. There was a time when security was not driven by governmental power. In many cases, this is why security did not exist in smaller […]
WhatsApp gives new data privacy deadline of May 15
All you WhatsApp users across the world, here’s a news piece that needs your attention on an urgent note. The Facebook subsidiary has issued a fresh set of policy updates in which it clearly specified that the users will have to accept its new data sharing rules that will become mandatory from May 15th,2021. Earlier, […]
Beware of these words which could trigger your Apple Siri, Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, and Microsoft Cortana
To all those using virtual assistants like Apple Siri, Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, and Microsoft Cortana, here’s a piece of news that might grab your interest. A team of researchers in Germany has discovered that even conversations from television programs taking place in front of a virtual assistant could activate it to record the conversations taking […]
Zoom app denies end to end encryption to free users
Video Conferencing app ‘Zoom’ has made it official that it will not offer end-to-end encryption to its free users as offering ciphered communication will hinder its cooperation with the police. However, all paid users are offered an advantage of encrypted communication as per the press update released by Eric Yuan, the company CEO. Genie Gebhard, […]
Android 11 and its Security and Privacy features
As users are already buying smartphones loaded with Android 10 OS, Google released a preview of its Android 11 operating system on February 19th this year which is to be likely released by the late summer on a commercial note. Some Android users who got an opportunity to use the beta version released in May […]
YES! Encrypted Traffic Can (and Must) Be Classified
Encryption Trends Why is Traffic Encryption on the Rise? Everywhere you look, the use of encryption is rising: on the Internet, in public and private Clouds, within enterprises, and across personal devices. One driver of this trend is the global demand for better protection of personal privacy on the Internet. It is a demand […]
