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Security researcher Eaton Zveare told TechCrunch that the flaws he discovered in the carmaker's centralized dealer portal exposed vast access to customer and vehicle data. With this access, Zveare said he could remotely take over a customer's account and unlock their cars, and more.
The newly launched app, now trending on Apple's App Store, contains at least one major security flaw that exposes the private information of its users, including their uploaded selfies and government-issued IDs.
The internet-connected sex toy maker said it fixed the vulnerabilities that exposed users' private email addresses and accounts to takeovers, but said it was also planning to take legal action following the disclosure.
Proton's new AI assistant Lumo promises to keep user data private with zero-access encryption, no logging, and an incognito mode.
These are our favorite cybersecurity books, both by fiction authors, as well as journalists and researchers.
AI chatbots, assistants and agents are increasingly asking for gross levels of access to your personal data under the guise of needing your information to make them work.
San Francisco-based startup Confident Security wants to be “the Signal for AI." The company just came out of stealth with $4.2 million and a tool that wraps around AI models to guarantee data stays private.
Using stalkerware is creepy, unethical, potentially illegal, and puts your data and that of your loved ones in danger.
By clicking "Allow," you'll let Facebook generate new ideas from your camera roll, like collages, recaps, AI restylings, or photo themes.
Reddit says it's rolling out an update that will introduce a "Content and Activity" setting that allows users to decide which content from the subreddits they participate in will appear on their profiles. This includes both their posting and commenting history.
The spyware maker claims the damages it was ordered to pay are "excessive," and that the jury wanted to “bankrupt” the company.
Signal said today that it is updating its Windows app to prevent the system from capturing screenshots, thereby protecting the content that is on display. The company said that this new "screen security" setting is enabled by default on Windows 11. Signal said that this new feature is designed to protect users' privacy from Microsoft's […]
In April, South Korea's telco giant SK Telecom (SKT) was hit by a cyberattack that led to the theft of personal data on approximately 23 million customers, equivalent to almost half of the country's 52 million residents. At a National Assembly hearing in Seoul on Thursday, SKT chief executive Young-sang Ryu said about 250,000 users […]
The app claims it uses end-to-end encryption, but spilled its users' dating preferences and granular location data to the open web.
There's a somewhat concerning new trend going viral: People are using ChatGPT to figure out the location shown in pictures. This week, OpenAI released its newest AI models, o3 and o4-mini, both of which can uniquely "reason" through uploaded images. In practice, the models can crop, rotate, and zoom in on photos — even blurry […]
The update comes months after Apple pushed its own “inactivity reboot” feature.
The list of 1,223 victims in 51 countries hints at the “true scale of the spyware problem,” per one researcher.
The open source repository of genetic data will delete its banks of data on April 30, its co-founder confirms.
Despite Google's intentions for its default image viewing and editing app for Android, the Photos app has, over the years, become one of the most popular photo backup services around. In fact, it was one of the most attractive offerings for years until it stopped offering unlimited storage in 2020. That change in the tech […]
Despite the stealthy nature of spyware, security researchers keep detecting Pegasus spyware attacks in part because of sloppy 'operational security.'