PayPal informed customers on Friday that personal information for 1.6 million individuals may have been obtained by hackers who breached the systems of its subsidiary TIO Networks. Read more

A memo from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) warns that China-based Da-Jiang Innovations (DJI), one of the world’s largest drone manufacturers, has been providing information on critical infrastructure and law enforcement to the Chinese government. Read more

Google is introducing significant changes to how it enforces its Unwanted Software Policy, which should result in better privacy and transparency for the world’s two billion Android users. Read more

Uber’s CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, who was placed in the top job in August, revealed the data breach last month shortly after studying of it himself, saying that “none of this should have occurred.” Uber’s security exercises are also under investigation in a high-stakes legal battle with self-driving car organization Waymo, an Alphabet Inc subsidiary. Read

KARACHI: Bank customers became the subject of stress and inconvenience as a number of ATM users reported fraudulent activity, complaining of unauthorized withdrawals from their accounts and blockage of plastic cards after reports surfaced of a wide-scale hacking incident. Read more

Ciaran Martin, head of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), said Russia has the plan “to target UK central administration and the UK’s critical national infrastructure” and there are “obvious risks throughout foreign ownership” of organizations that produce anti-virus (AV) software. Read more

After rapidly patching a flaw that allowed anyone with access to a High Sierra Mac to obtain administrative control, Apple still has more work to do to make its software secure, namely iOS 11, it was claimed this week. Read more

Facebook is testing a new captcha system that will soon require users to upload a clear photo of their face so it can authenticate and allow access to their account in case it is locked due to suspicious activity. Read more

A former National Security Agency hacker has admitted to illegally taking highly classified information from the agency’s headquarters, which was later stolen by Russian hackers. Read more

Google has explicitly rejected them from the Play Store. Identify Airpush? The current advertisement scourge is ad-infused lock screens, which have shown up in earlier safe apps like ES File Explorer, Peel, and Hotspot Shield VPN. Read more