Privacy

Mozilla has removed four Firefox extensions created by Avast and its subsidiary AVG after receiving credible reports that the extensions had harvested user data as well as user's browsing histories.

The four extensions which have been removed are Avast Online Security, AVG Online Security, Avast SafePrice and AVG SafePrice. The first two display warnings when users navigate to known malicious or suspicious sites while the other two show price comparisons and deals for online shoppers.

A California woman has issued a warning on Facebook after discovering that an Apple store employee texted himself an intimate photo from her phone.

Gloria Fuentes took her phone into the Valley Plaza Apple store in Bakersfield, California, on November 4 to get the screen repaired.

Before handing her phone over to a man on the tech team, Fuentes had taken the precaution of removing social media apps and financial information from the device.

The personal data of nearly 7.5 million Adobe Creative Cloud users was exposed earlier this month when an unsecured database was discovered online.

The database, which could be accessed by anyone without the need for a username or password, included information such as email addresses, member IDs and payment status. People accessing the database were also able to see which Adobe products were used by individuals, the country they live in, and whether they are Adobe employees.

Stop us if you've heard this one before: United States law enforcement officials want tech companies to undermine encrypted messaging protections. The latest salvo is a fresh spin, but the underlying intent remains the same. As does the fundamental danger it poses.

Two rogue employees of Malaysian e-commerce services provider GoQuo have been identified as the culprits behind a security breach that compromised the personal data of Malindo Air and Thai Lion Air passengers. The Malaysian and Thai airlines are subsidiaries under Indonesia's low-cost carrier group, Lion Air.

L33tdawg: Such a bad idea it's not even funny. Here's why. I guess it's time for Rop and Hari to make a trip to Malaysia.

THE Election Commission (EC) is studying the possibility of implementing electronic voting (e-voting) to cater to an estimated 22 million voters in the next general election.

Privacy has been a renewed focus with Apple’s next operating system update. One new feature in iOS 13 that seems centered on user privacy could have sweeping consequences for messaging and online call apps.

A dramatic saga that began with a civil lawsuit between AT&T and former employees has resulted in a high-profile arrest. Muhammad Fahd, 34, and his co-conspirators allegedly paid AT&T employees more than $1 million in bribes over five years to install malware and spying devices at their offices in Washington, according to a Department of Justice indictment unsealed Monday. He was first arrested in Hong Kong in February 2018, and was extradited to the United States Friday.

If you’d rather not think about how your life is locked in a dystopian web of your own data, don't watch the new Netflix documentary The Great Hack.

A mysterious hacker (or hacker group) has stolen the personal details of millions of Bulgarians and has emailed download links to the stolen data to local news publications.

The data's origin is believed to be the country's National Revenue Agency (NRA), a department of the Bulgarian Ministry of Finance.

In a message posted on its website on Monday, the NRA admitted to the incident and said it was working with the Ministry of the Interior and the State Agency for National Security (SANS) to investigate the hack.