A declassified court order reveals ICE's HSI division is using "pen registers" to track suspects by collecting and analyzing WhatsApp message metadata.

The photo looks clean. You cropped it, tweaked the lighting, maybe ran a filter. You think it’s anonymous. You post it.

The dataset originates from metadata published in connection with a security study titled “Trivial WhatsApp Security Issue Exposed 3.5 Billion Phone Numbers.” That research demonstrated how a simple flaw could reveal phone numbers globally.

Recent outages at AWS, Azure, and Cloudflare show that internal configuration errors, not attacks, are the new single point of failure in hyper-automated global cloud infrastructure.

Messages in the WhatsApp messenger may contain hidden geolocation data even when the user has deliberately chosen not

For most of the last two decades, file transfer inside enterprises followed a clear and predictable rhythm. A file arrived, someone picked…

A tool has been released into the public domain that enables covert monitoring of user activity on WhatsApp

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The Apache Software Foundation has issued a security advisory for the Apache Spatial Information System (SIS), a key Java library used for developing geospatial applications. A newly discovered vu…

WhatsApp, a subsidiary of Meta, has long served as a primary conduit for sophisticated cyber incursions. With a monthly active user base exceeding three billion, the platform presents an extraordi…

The room is empty, but the space is still occupied.

Vimeo metadata and customer emails were exposed via a breach at third-party vendor Anodot. Internal systems remain secure. Learn how to manage vendor risk.

The video hosting vanguard Vimeo has disclosed a security transgression impacting its user repository, precipitated by a compromise

How EXIF data enables adversary tracking — and how DotScramble fights back