Privacy

Widespread call record exposure possible due to Verizon mobile app flaw Millions of people across the U.S. could have had their call records exposed and stolen with the exploitation of a now-fixed vulnerability impacting the Verizon Call Filter app that enables spam call identification and blocking for iOS users, according to SecurityWeek.

Cybernews reports that most of the over 2.8 billion user records belonging to X, formerly Twitter which were purported by threat actor "ThinkingOne" to have been exfiltrated by a disgruntled employee were publicly available information.

U.S. Department of Justice bankruptcy regulators have been urged by Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson to ensure that any buyer of the embattled DNA testing services company 23andMe should comply with the firm's existing data privacy policies.

Fifty-six percent of 270 U.S. appellate court judges may have had their personal details available on data broker sites, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

Technique claims it can unmask crooks hiding behind VPNs, proxy servers and Tor browsers with up to 70% reliability.

Military strike plans of the U.S. against Houthi rebels in Yemen were discussed over the Signal messaging app and exposed by The Atlantic after the inadvertent inclusion of its editor-in-chief in the chat.

Human error is often at the center of data leaks from secured messaging platforms like the recent leak of U.S. strikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen.

State and local governments have been urged by the New America's Open Technology Institute to implement data encryption, hashing, de-identification, and other privacy enhancing technologies to avert potential breaches amid growing concerns regarding the Department of Government Efficiency's increasingly pervasive access to federal agencies' sensitive information, reports CyberScoop.