Paul Bischoff

We tested the top 12 best-selling home wi-fi routers on Amazon. Our results show attackers can find and remotely access about one in 16 internet-connected home wi-fi routers using the manufacturer’s default admin password. Victims could be at risk of eavesdropping, malware, hijacking, and more.

In 2020, our phones became an even more valuable lifeline to the outside world. But instead of picking up the phone to hear the familiar voices of our friends and families, many of us were greeted with automated robot voices, exclaiming, “Good afternoon, your warranty is up for renewal!” or “Congratulations, you have won a […]

We ran over 3,000 tests on 37 VPNs, each against 20 different country versions of Netflix on both desktop browser and the mobile app to see which beat the Netflix VPN ban. Netflix has a different library of shows for each country that it operates in. Due to geographic content licensing agreements, TV shows and […]

According to data collected by our researchers, 1 in 5 children’s apps available on Google Play don’t adhere to COPPA rules. COPPA, imposed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), enforces a number of requirements on operators of websites or online services that are aimed at under 13s. It also applies to operators of other websites […]

Comparitech security researchers discovered an unprotected database containing more than 5 billion records aggregated from previous data breaches.

Over 50 years ago 2001: A Space Odyssey introduced the world to HAL-9000, a computer with artificial intelligence capabilities, including facial recognition technology. It seemed other-worldly, advanced, and somewhat hard to comprehend. Today, facial recognition technology (FRT) is, for an alarming number of us, a part of everyday life. From opening up our phones and […]

For the majority of us, our cell phones are a gateway to our lives. From helping us navigate our way through a new city to being our primary source of communication, there isn’t much we don’t use them for. Sadly, all of these convenient features also leave our phones open to abuse. When installed on […]

A software vendor for British Gas, the UK’s biggest energy supplier, exposed 3.6 million customer email addresses on the web without a password. Customers might be at risk of phishing.

An overview of how China surveils its people online and offline, censors the web, manipulates social behavior, and restricts freedom.

Our team of researchers has collated data breach records spanning over 15 years to provide a running total of the number of breaches and records affected since 2005. Since 2005, more than 11 billion individual records have been impacted in data breaches across the United States. From the start of 2005 to the end of […]