Just over 5.2 billion people worldwide have mobile phones, accounting for almost 70 percent of the entire global population, according to the GSM Association. The majority of national governments (around 160) require mandatory SIM-card registration, which means you need your real … | Continue reading
Check any website or URL to see if it has been blocked in Russia and if there is a way to access it with our real time website availability checking tool. | Continue reading
Thai authorities left an unsecured database on the web containing international travel records dating back 10 years. | Continue reading
Personal details of 35 million residents in and around Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Diego were exposed online. The owner is still unknown. | Continue reading
In recent years, phishing attacks have fast become the favored method for criminals to steal data from unsuspecting victims. These attacks have risen by almost 815 percent in just two years, with as many as 74 percent of US organizations experiencing a successful phishing attack … | Continue reading
Comparitech security researchers discovered an unprotected database containing more than 5B records aggregated from previous data breaches. | Continue reading
Comparitech researchers accessed an unsecured Facebook bot farm used to control nearly 14,000 fake accounts. Here’s what we found. | Continue reading
Almost 54 percent of the world’s population (4.1 billion people) uses the internet. It’s our source of instant information, entertainment, news, and social interactions. But where in the world can citizens enjoy equal and open internet access – if anywhere? In this exploratory st … | Continue reading
In this article we look at the packet capture protocol PCAP. Includes an examination of packet sniffing and monitoring tools that use PCAP. | Continue reading
Social Data says it only takes public data from public profiles, but scraping is strictly against most social networks' terms of use. | Continue reading
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250 million leaked conversations between Microsoft customer support agents and customers were left exposed on the web, putting users at risk of phishing. | Continue reading
A data breach incurs serious consequences no matter whether a company is big or small. Staff get fired, executives issue apologies, and entire systems are overhauled to ensure that it doesn’t happen again. They instill doubt in consumers, damage the company’s reputation, and the … | Continue reading
A database containing more than 267 million Facebook user IDs, phone numbers, and names was left exposed on the web for anyone to access without a password or any other authentication. Comparitech partnered with security researcher Bob Diachenko to uncover the Elasticsearch clust … | Continue reading
A data exposure of 7 million Adobe Creative Cloud account records could put users at risk of targeted phishing. | Continue reading
A CenturyLink data leak has been uncovered, involving the personal information of hundreds of thousands of its customers. | Continue reading
Test any site to see if it has been blocked by the Great Firewall. See how to unblock and access sites in China by using a VPN. | Continue reading
Internet service providers in the United States have spent more than $1.2 billion on lobbying since 1998, and 2018 was the biggest year so far with a total spend of more than $80 million. Comparitech researchers compiled and analyzed 51 ISPs’ lobbying expenses from the US Senate’ … | Continue reading
Cities in China are under the heaviest CCTV surveillance in the world, according to a new analysis by our researchers at Comparitech. However, some residents living in cities across the US, UK, UAE, Australia, and India will also find themselves surrounded by a large number of wa … | Continue reading
Android antivirus apps claim to protect your device, but we found a ton of security holes and privacy risks -- one of them even exposes your address book | Continue reading
Robocall complaints grew by 165% between 2014 and 2017. We analyzed data from the FTC to understand better robocalls registered around the U.S. over time. | Continue reading