More companies – particularly social media firms – may follow Facebook’s footsteps in turning to bug bounty programs to scout out any data privacy abuse on their platforms, experts say.

Facebook and Google are doing anything they can to nudge users away from data privacy, a Norwegian agency alleged in a new report.

The agency doesn’t ask for explicit consent to collect the voiceprints; and, the deletion and erasure process lacks transparency.

The IP cameras have a slew of bugs allowing bad actors to control them, add them to a botnet, or render them useless.

In a David-and-Goliath moment, the 49-year-old librarian has won satisfaction in the wake of its head-spinningly massive 2017 data breach.

The Feds say Marcus Hutchins is behind both the UPAS Kit backdoor and the Kronos banking trojan.

While other malware families have been searching for new overlay techniques for Android 7 and 8, MysteryBot appears to have found a solution.

Researchers found three vulnerabilities in Foscam connected security cameras that could enable a bad actor to gain root access knowing only the camera’s IP address.

The stolen data included “secret plans to develop a supersonic anti-ship missile for use on U.S. submarines by 2020,” American officials said.

Schneider Electric on Tuesday issued fixes for a vulnerability its SoMachine Basic software that could result in disclosure and retrieval of arbitrary data.