The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is getting ready to launch its own Instagram account. Director Gina Haspel revealed the news last week during a speech at the University of Auburn in Alabama. The agency already has Facebook and Twitter accounts, and now Instagram has assisted the...
Researchers discovered a vulnerability in the Ring doorbell that could allow hackers to send fake images into the video feed, or even eavesdrop on video and audio as it is broadcast. Dojo by BullGuard discovered that if the right techniques were utilized, a hacker with access to incoming...
After becoming aware of a bug on its back-end systems, Uber repaired a vulnerability that provided access to secret developer tokens. A developer endpoint had been sending server tokens and client secrets, according to reports. Uber said in an e-mail, according to reports, “At this...
State Bank of India, India’s biggest bank, was forced to patch a server that was unsecured, providing anyone with access to customers’ data. According to a report in TechCrunch, the server housed financial information on millions of Bank of India customers including bank balances and...
Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive who has emerged as a powerful privacy advocate, has called on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to put in place a new framework to increase the transparency of companies that handle user data. According to a report in CNBC, in...
Through a series of vulnerabilities in the technology of the Fortnite game, an attacker could have been able to gain control of user accounts on the platform, per research from Check Point. Researchers from the IT security firm told Epic Games about the bugs in...
The Reserve Bank of India has released guidelines for what it calls the “tokenization” of debit and credit card transactions, according to reports. Tokenization will replace card details with a code, called a “token,” which will be specifically for the card, the token requestor and...
To contend with technology threats from China, two U.S. senators brought forward a bill that would make an office in the White House for safeguarding supply chains and combating theft. The bill, which aims to create an Office of Critical Technologies and Security, was a...
Police in the United Kingdom are planning to use facial recognition over the holidays in highly-populated areas to find criminals, according to reports. Police plan to use the technology to scan shoppers’ faces in London — particularly in Soho, Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square, which...
