Security News

WinRAR 7.10 boosts Windows privacy by stripping MoTW data
2025-02-18 22:57

WinRAR 7.10 was released yesterday with numerous features, such as larger memory pages, a dark mode, and the ability to fine-tune how Windows Mark-of-the-Web flags are propagated when extracting...

South Korea Suspends DeepSeek AI Downloads Over Privacy Violations
2025-02-17 11:36

South Korea has formally suspended new downloads of Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot DeepSeek in the country until the service makes changes to its mobile apps to comply with data...

Nearly 10 years after Data and Goliath, Bruce Schneier says: Privacy’s still screwed
2025-02-15 15:44

'In 50 years, I think we'll view these business practices like we view sweatshops today' Interview It has been nearly a decade since famed cryptographer and privacy expert Bruce Schneier released...

Political campaigns struggle to balance AI personalization and voter privacy
2025-02-10 05:00

In this Help Net Security interview, Mateusz Łabuz, researcher at the IFSH, discusses the balance between using AI for personalized political campaigns and protecting voter privacy. Łabuz also...

Microsoft kills off Defender 'Privacy Protection' VPN feature
2025-02-03 17:27

Microsoft announced it is killing off its Privacy Protection VPN feature in the Microsoft Defender app at the end of the month to focus on other features. [...]

Privacy Commissioner warns the ‘John Smiths’ of the world can acquire ‘digital doppelgangers’
2025-02-03 06:30

Australian government staff mixed medical info for folk who share names and birthdays Australia’s privacy commissioner has found that government agencies down under didn’t make enough of an effort...

How to use iCloud Private Relay for enhanced privacy
2025-02-03 04:00

iCloud Private Relay, included with an iCloud+ subscription, enhances your privacy while browsing the web in Safari. When this feature is enabled, the traffic leaving your iPhone is encrypted and...

Italy Bans Chinese DeepSeek AI Over Data Privacy and Ethical Concerns
2025-01-31 11:04

Italy's data protection watchdog has blocked Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firm DeepSeek's service within the country, citing a lack of information on its use of users' personal data. The...

Canvassing apps used by UK political parties riddled with privacy, security issues
2025-01-30 12:08

Neither Labour, Conservatives, nor the Lib Dems offered a retort to rights org's report The Open Rights Group (ORG) has raised concerns about a number of security issues it found in all three of...

WFH with privacy? 85% of Brit bosses snoop on staff
2025-01-30 10:15

Employers remain blissfully unaware/wilfully ignorant of the impact of surveillance on staff More than three-quarters of UK employers admit to using some form of surveillance tech to spy on their...