Privacy

As outlined in HackRead, over 102,000 private records from Brazil’s health surveillance system were left accessible online without any security measures, exposing sensitive personal and government information.

Apple's Private Relay, an opt-in feature designed to hide a user's IP address when browsing the internet with Safari, was found to have flaws that can reveal the supposedly hidden IP address.

Some applications are inadvertently sharing users' precise location data with third parties, including advertisers and data brokers, due to default settings within software development kits (SDKs), as first reported by TechCrunch.

New figures reveal that cybercrime victims are losing an average of $9,468 per incident, highlighting the escalating global scale of this problem.

CAF Bank restored its online banking service after a prolonged outage lasting more than 10 days, which the bank attributed to attempted fraud and a subsequent attack aimed at removing user logins.

These seemingly harmless blank pages or "Coming Soon" placeholders can silently collect a visitor's IP address, approximate location, User-Agent string, and cookie identifiers.

The OAIC's updated guidance clarifies exceptions to consent obligations for Australian Privacy Principle (APP) entities considering facial recognition in retail settings.