16 January 2021, 4:40 am EST By
More than 150,000 criminal records have been accidentally deleting from the police databases in a Home Office tech error that caused the police department to launch damage control.
Home Office tech blunder
The fingerprints, DNA records and arrest history records were all deleted in the Police National Computer or PNC error last week, according to The Times.
The newspaper wrote that this blunder could allow offenders to go free without any repercussions because the evidence that is needed to arrest them and all those from the crime scene will not be flagged.
The error reportedly happened by accident during a weekly weeding session to expunge data, Home Office confirmed the story and said that it was still assessing the overall impact of the unfortunately glitch.
15 January 2021, 8:17 am EST By Signal App Security Setting: How to Make Safe Even Safer ( Screenshot From Pxhere Official Website )
With WhatsApp now requiring its users to share their own personal data with Facebook and Elon Musk as well as Edward Snowden s recommendation to use Signal, it seems like the user base has just gotten bigger. With Signal reportedly becoming pretty secure, there are actually a few things that users can do in order to make things safer.
Is Signal really private?
Elon Musk s status was made to address the need for a more secure way of messaging people, the only thing he said was use Signal promoting the application. Edward Snowden has also been one to promote this app by advertising the safety that its encryption gives users.
(Photo : Photo by Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images) YOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA - JULY 24: Deni (L), plays Pokemon Go game on his smartphone on July 24, 2016 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Pokemon Go, which uses Google Maps and a smartphone has been a smash-hit in countries where it is available and already popular in Indonesia even though it has not been officially released. Indonesians have been downloading the game by using a proxy location which gives them access to app stores of other countries as security officials have voiced worries that the game could pose a security threat.
As of the moment encrypted-apps, specifically, Telegram and Signal, confirmed that they are experiencing massive surges in new users. CNET reported that the now-popular chatting app was downloaded almost 1.3 million times only on Monday, Jan. 11.
15 January 2021, 9:49 am EST By iOS vs Android: Which Smartphone Can Take Better Care of User Data? ( Screenshot From Pxhere Official Website )
A brand new research by the Johns Hopkins University that have recently found that even though both the Android and the iOS host certain requisite features in order to offer better security, neither of these two factions enforce them at all.
Android vs iOS in data security
An article by News18 focuses on smartphone security noting the difference between Android and iOS. A brand new research made by cryptographers over at Johns Hopkins University explains why these particular exploits are available as well as how these certain vulnerabilities which include Android and iOS, according to the post on SecuredPhones.io.