Note: this is a Google translation of an article that originally appeared in Hebrew at https://news.walla.co.il/item/3183496: Four people are suspected of setting up a system for trading information about candidates for military service, according to an investigation conducted by the Ministry of Justice’s Privacy Protection Authority. In the course of the investigation, a systematic violation of…
Month: August 2018
Aadhaar details of over 60k students on APCCE website
Anupama N reports: Vijayawada: The officials of Commissionerate of College Education, Andhra Pradesh, have put the privacy of thousands of students at risk by publishing their Aadhaar card details on the website. In a major goof up by the officials, details of 64,807 students have been put up on the website, for the viewing of…
‘IRL’ app could compromise your personal information
Cheri Kiesecker kindly sent along this news item as a warning for readers. Kara Apel reports: A text message that claims you’ve been complimented by a friend can trick you into accessing all of your personal information. Thousands of people across the county, including hundreds here in the Midstate, have been receiving this message. The…
1,464 Western Australian government officials used ‘Password123’ as their password. But don’t smirk.
Taylor Telford reports: Somewhere in Western Australia, a government IT employee is probably laughing or crying or pulling their hair out, or maybe all of the above. A security audit of the Western Australian government released this week by the state’s auditor general found that 26 percent of its officials had weak, common passwords —…
Apple removed Facebook’s Onavo from the App Store for gathering app data
Taylor Hatmaker reports: If you were on the edge of your seat wondering what Facebook’s next major consumer privacy headache would be, the wait is over! The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple has deemed Facebook-owned app Onavo in violation of its App Store policies and will be giving it the boot shortly. In a…
Spyware Company Leaves ‘Terabytes’ of Selfies, Text Messages, and Location Data Exposed Online
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: A company that markets cell phone spyware to parents and employers left the data of thousands of its customers—and the information of the people they were monitoring—unprotected online. The data exposed included selfies, text messages, audio recordings, contacts, location, hashed passwords and logins, Facebook messages, among others, according to a security researcher…