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The anti-virus giant Avast has announced shutting down one of its subsidiaries called Jumpshot after the company was found stealing user data and selling it for big bucks. On January 28th, 2020 based on the investigation by PCMag and Vice, Avast was secretly stealing browsing data from millions of its customers and  selling it to third-parties . Some of its active buyers included Google, Pepsi, IBM, Yelp, Microsoft, TripAdvisor, and Unilever, etc. Avast’s data collection worked or still works in such a way that the software collects all of your browsing data which is then accessed by Jumpshot. The latter in return takes it and uses it as a part of what makes up its product offerings. An example of it is Avast’s “All Clicks Feed” which lets companies access your behavior on the internet and any clicks you make on any particular range of domains. Reportedly, Avast sold user data to one of its New York-based customer for a hefty sum of $2,075,000. How Jumpshot functioned – Ima

New research from web security company  Web finds that 97 out of 100 the world’s largest airports have security risks related to vulnerable web and mobile applications, misconfigured public cloud, Dark Web exposure or code repositories leaks. The 2020 annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) urged the consideration of emerging  cybersecurity  challenges in the aviation industry, addressed in its “Advancing Cyber Resilience in Aviation: An Industry Analysis” report. To shed some light on the current state of aviation transportation security, ImmuniWeb decided to conduct research on cybersecurity, compliance and privacy of the world’s largest airports. Key findings Top 3 Most Secure Airports: During the research, ImmuniWeb identified three international airports that successfully passed all the tests without a single major issue being detected: — Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (EU) — Helsinki-Vantaa Airport (EU) — Dublin Airport (EU) Main Website Security: Appl

Protect Your Phone Number and Protect Your Identity share       Back in the day, a phone number was simply a piece of contact information, a way for your friends and family to call you. Nowadays, companies use phone numbers to identify you or prove who you are by texting security codes or calling for verification. Think about the many ways you use your phone number. You include it when you sign up on websites or log into an app. You give it to your favorite store as part of their loyalty program and share it to receive text alerts from your bank. You use it when you need to reset a password or login to your accounts using  two-factor authentication . That also means that with your phone number and some other information, like your birthday or address, bad guys have a better chance of impersonating you and getting to your personal data and accounts. Here are a few ways to secure your phone number to protect your identity from the bad guys.

While Boris Johnson previously argued that Huawei’s work on the British 5G network won’t affect ties between London and Washington, Mike Pompeo warned that the US takes a dim view of the Chinese company’s involvement. The United Kingdom’s decision to allow Huawei to have a role in the country’s 5G networks does not affect Britain’s ability to securely share intelligence data, a spokesman for UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on 29 January. Previously, Johnson himself  dismissed concerns  that Huawei’s involvement could negatively impact London’s cooperation with Washington. This development comes as US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who arrived in London just ahead of Brexit, announced his intent to explain to British officials the alleged dangers of relying on Huawei to roll out the UK’s next-generation 5G network, a move which he claimed would create a “real risk” to security. "Our view of Huawei is putting it in your system creates real risk. This is an e

IRAS satellite Close encounters of a third kind may not be as exciting as they sound. It was recently reported that two American defunct  satellites  in low Earth orbit could potentially crash into each other this evening. If this crash occurs it could result in hundreds of pieces of debris that could interfere with the paths of other satellites. The  NASA  Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) and the United States Naval Research Lab’s Gravity Gradient Stabilization Experiment (GGSE-4) will fly by each other this evening. The two satellites will be between 43 feet to 285 feet around 6:39pm EST nearly 600 miles above Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Both satellites are traveling at around 32,000 mph. There is a 1 in 1,000 chance that the satellites will collide. At first glance, the crash appears to be very unlikely. However, Dr. Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics remarked, “We start getting worried when it's 1 in 10,000,

Since the beggining of the error of OTT tax, I discovered a simple way of helping those with small phones who couldn't use VPN!This technich is to avail those with small phones and had no mobile money access but needed to use Facebook. This simple technique can allow one to log to twitter,Facebook on opera,firefox,and all browsers. It also helps to log into Facebook on a mini Facebook lite app,and Instagram on Firefox and opera.Take a look at the screen shots on how to go about it in the settings. o This simple trick also works on symbian,BlackBerry and all chinese is On Android you edit as in the screen shots below I have many  tricks and you can change those settings in many ways onball sim networks

In the past, Apple has repeatedly  refused to unlock the iPhone for the FBI  pleasing its fan base with the notion that it indeed has no secret backdoor to your smartphone. Yet, this sadly did not mean that the iPhone was unhackable. In fact, there have been numerous instances including strange cases such as when a   teenager hacked Apple twice .  No massive black hat teams sitting behind a plethora of big screens, literally a teenager.  Now, another incident is on the rise with it being reported that the FBI can unlock all iPhones using  Graykey  – a product of Grayshift, an Atlanta based company. Moreover, this is not the first time that the tool has been in the headlines for helping  unlock any iPhone  using brute force techniques. As reported by Thomas Brewster from Forbes, a  search warrant  of a United States District Court for Ohio dated October 16 of last year confirms the use of such a device to obtain forensic data: The iPhone in question was an 11 Pro Max bel

Clearview app is not for personal use but only for law enforcement authorities, the company emphasizes. China has been for a long time the poster face of  conducting mass surveillance on its citizens . This has been attributed to its use of advanced AI-powered algorithms being able to facially recognize anyone on the streets. Yet, it seems like it won’t be the only state to do so for long. Recently, it has been revealed in an investigation by the New York Times that a startup named   Clearview AI  has developed a facial recognition app that allows anyone to snap a picture of a stranger anywhere and instantly learn about their name, address and any other details available online. How it does this is no secret. By scrapping images available from social networking services like Facebook and YouTube, the company records number over 3 billion pictures, far more than the databases of law enforcement agencies such as the  FBI which has over 641 million images of U.S Citizens  comprisi