NZ Government Invests $8M To Keep Residents Safe
The New Zealand Government have announced the release of New Zealand’s Cyber Security Strategy 2019, which sees the government investing $8 million on cyber security. Kris Faafoi, puts an emphasis on partnership as crucial to secure the infrastructure and the residents of New Zealand. “The new Strategy highlights four fundamentals for cyber security in New Zealand: Partnerships are crucial; people are secure and human rights are...
TLS Pages Used For Phishing
Do not trust TLS pages at face value Everyone has been taught and reminded frequently to trust TLS based websites, look at the padlock sign, https and green bars. Since most people look at only these things and believe the website is secure, it is the same reason it is used for malicious activities by hackers. By trusting the website, hackers abuse the trust between the user and the website and lead them to phishing pages. FBI has...
Mental Health App Are Sharing Your Data
92% of apps are sharing your data without consent. Researches have found out that majority of the mental health applications are sharing your data with Facebook and Google. By intercepting the traffic, researchers were able to identify apps sharing usernames, app type and self reporting substance. The application tested did not have an opt-out option, 9 of the apps did not have any privacy policy, while the only 5 which had a privacy...
Microsoft Support Agent’s Credentials Hacked
Support Agent’s Targeted Microsoft have sent out a letter to it’s affected users regarding the incident which caused “limited” number of accounts being compromised. According to Microsoft, support agent’s credentials were hacked and hackers were able to view folder names, subject lines and the email accounts the account has communicated with in the past. Microsoft urges that hackers were not able to view...
Are Google And Apple Hosting App which tracks women?
Google and Apple under scrutiny for hosting a plausible tracking app An application called Absher has come under a lot of scrutiny when it was revealed that the app was capable of tracking the women/spouse.By the using the app, “guardians” can register their dependent women and block travel destination to certain countries. Previously women had to present a consent form to the authorities at the airport, but since the launch of...
Facebook Gets Teens Data Just For $20
Ethical? In recent days, Facebook has been caught secretly paying $20 per month to teens in order to access their data. By connecting through the “Facebook Research” VPN, Facebook was given access to all user data, network traffic and root access to the devices. The age group of the users went from 13-35 years old. The users were also told to screenshot their Amazon history as well. The iOS version of the app has...