There were two announcements from the NPC yesterday. Privacy Commission’s updated online learning guidelines advise schools to enforce social media policy Schools engaged in online learning are advised to strictly enforce a social media policy that reminds the possible data privacy consequences of posting screen captures, images, videos, chats, and sounds involving students and teachers…
Category: Online
mHealth Apps Expose Millions to Cyberattacks
Becky Bracken reports: Some 23 million mobile health (mHealth) application users are exposed to application programming interface (API) attacks that could expose sensitive information, according to researchers. Generally speaking, APIs are an intermediary between applications that defines how they can talk to one another and allowing them to swap information. Researcher Alissa Knight with Approov…
Constitutional court bans bulk Internet surveillance in South Africa
Duncan McLeod reports: In a landmark judgment handed down on Thursday, the constitutional court banned the South African state from bulk surveillance of online communication, preventing security agencies from hoovering up Internet data. This sort of surveillance, which is routinely done by agencies such as the National Security Agency in the US and GCHQ in the…
Bot Lets Hackers Easily Lookup Facebook Users’ Phone Numbers
Joseph Cox reports: A user of a low level cybercriminal forum is selling access to a database of phone numbers belonging to Facebook users, and conveniently letting customers lookup those numbers by using an automated Telegram bot. Although the data is several years old, it still presents a cybersecurity and privacy risk to those whose…