EV SSL Certificate syntactic error clarified

A group of self-selected researchers used CT logs to seek out syntactical errors among EV SSL certificates recently. Examples of syntactic errors include a misspelled city/state, registration of jurisdiction including the applicant’s city/state or the inclusion of a value in a field that should be left blank. Unfortunately, when such syntactic errors are found, CA/Browser […]

Auto-delete feature added to Google

Responding to community feedback, Google is giving its users a simpler way to control their privacy on its platforms — an auto-delete feature. Location history and web activity both help Google to provide the user with personalized ads and recommendations and to access their commonly visited sites more easily. But, increasingly, users are becoming skeptical […]

Facebook ‘unintentionally uploaded’ E-Mail contacts of 1.5 million users

The social media giant did so without user consent, but says it is now deleting such data. Since May 2016, 1.5 million users have had their E-Mail contacts harvested by Facebook upon sign-up, without being asked for consent. Security researcher ‘e-sushi’ found that Facebook was requesting the passwords to some users’ E-Mail accounts to verify […]