📅 - The Donald Trump for President campaign released an app last week. The app “America First” has some privacy experts concerned. The smartphone app may not be prioritizing users' privacy.
While the data collection methods are not illegal, experts warn that users may be handing over personal data or their contacts. These may not seem harmful, but in the event of a data breach or other malicious hack, it could expose their information.
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📅 - Russian Lawmaker’s Son Convicted in Hacking Scheme - Roman Seleznev was found guilty in Seattle by a federal jury on Thursday. He is the 32 year old son of Valery Seleznev, a member of the State Duma which is the lower house of Russia's parliament.
Prosecuters are calling this one of the most prolific credit card trafficking schemes ever. Seleznev, had been stealing credit card numbers from retail businesses worldwide, and selling the data on the Internet. Many of the compromised businesses were pizza restaurants.
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📅 - WhatsApp Will Share User Data with Facebook - In a Thursday blog post, WhatsApp announced that they will begin sharing phone numbers and other user data with Facebook. This new strategy strays from the initial promise that little would change when Facebook bought the messaging service in 2014.
This is the first update to the WhatsApp terms of service and privacy in four years, one that may upset many who relied on WhatsApp's original statement that the company was made “around the goal of knowing as little about you as possible.”
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📅 - Google Explains Google App Engine Outage - The Google App Engine experienced an outage on August 11th, and the company is still releasing details on what sparked the outage. The incident affected 37 percent of US-Central hosted applications.
The incident has been blamed on a software update for its traffic routers, which then triggered a rolling restart during standard periodic maintenance.
Google explained, “We apologize for this incident, we know that you choose to run your applications on Google App Engine to obtain flexible, reliable, high-performance service, and in this incident we have not delivered the level of reliability for which we strive.”
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📅 - Google Plans to Penalized Mobile Sites with Pop-ups - Mobile Sites using “intrusive” pop-up notifications will soon be penalized by Google. This news came from the Product Manager and was announced on the Webmaster Central Blog from Google. According to the blog, the changes are expected to be made by January.
The goal of Google is to improve the user experience. This will be done by providing mobile search results without sites including pop-ups that cover the entire page of content or are considered intrusive to the ...
📅 - $4.3 Billion Deal has been Reached by Rackspace - Rackspace has reached a deal to go private after many weeks of speculation with a private equity firm. The deal is for a projected $4.3 million and is expected to close in Q4 2016. Since the deal was announces, shares for Rackspace are up 4%.
Shareholders will be paid $32 per share, in cash, which is a 38% premium compared to the closing price on August 3rd, 2016. This news comes on the heels of Rackspace letting the Cloud Sites unit go and moving employees over to the Liquid Web ...
📅 - Chinese Cyber Attacks on Russia Spike - Instances of Chinese hacking Russian industries has jumped dramatically. In 2015, there were 72 recorded attacks, while there have been 194 in the first seven months of this year. According to Alexander Gostev of the Kaspersky Lab, an online security company, attacks on the defense, aviation and nuclear industries rose almost threefold.
“Despite the officially promoted friendship between Russia and China and accords on cyber security, cooperation and non-aggression, I don't see them working.” Gostev remarked in an interview.