A case before the high court in Pretoria is set to have important implications for citizens’ privacy – and the ability of journalists to do their work without hindrance.
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Tech giants, including Apple, Google and WhatsApp, have urged the UK’s GCHQ to abandon a proposal that would allow it to eavesdrop on encrypted chat conversations.
A probe into how Google’s mammoth advertising business handles personal data has been launched by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission.
South African identity management platform provider Intergreatme has raised R27-million, R3-million more than its original target, in a crowdfunding effort.
An unknown number of Google passwords belonging to the company’s enterprise customers have been stored in plain text for 14 years, the technology giant has admitted.
But research conducted at Unisa has found there’s a huge disconnect between the privacy that consumers expect and are legally entitled to, and what organisations are doing to meet their obligations.
In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod interviews Paul Ducklin from British security company Sophos about the news that WhatsApp has been targeted by an advanced “cyber actor”.
Microsoft has issued a critical Windows update to older machines to prevent a vulnerability which could allow attacks to spread in a similar way to WannaCry.
The discovery that hackers could snoop on WhatsApp should alert users of supposedly secure messaging apps to an uncomfortable truth.
Cybersecurity experts have warned WhatsApp users to update the messaging app as soon as possible following the discovery of a major vulnerability.