Never in human history has there been a platform for tracking, eavesdropping, reconnaissance, and surveillance like the smartphone. With the right malware or phone store app, a marketing company, suspicious spouse, parent, nation-state cyber-spy, or your own government or law enforcement agency can easily spy on anyone carrying a smartphone. Mobile devices often provide a bridge between a target’s personal life and professional ...
I hate robocalls. I got rid on my land line phone because the ONLY people who called me on it were robocallers, fraudsters, and political campaigns (more fraudsters?). Now up to 80% of my cellular phone calls are robocalls. If it seems that there are more robocalls then ever, this is not an illusion. Robocalls have increased 46% from 2017 to 2018, and ...
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Modern credit card skimmers hidden in self-service gas pumps communicate via Bluetooth. There’s now an app that can detect them:
The team from the University of California San Diego, who worked with other computer scientists from the University of Illinois, developed an app called Bluetana which ...
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If you visited certain websites with your iPhone (or Android or Windows device**) over the last two years, it is possible that your iPhone downloaded and installed malware that allowed attackers to intercept and record everything you did and everywhere you went with your iPhone. This includes real-time location information, all your emails and messaging (including encrypted versions such ...
A lot of very specific location information is being collected about you, me, and every other smartphone user. The image at left shows everywhere I have been in the last four years, courtesy of Google location services. If you would like to find out what is being collected about you, and how to make it stop, the last article and this article will ...
A lot of very specific location information is being collected about you, me, and every other smartphone user. The image at left shows everywhere I have been in the last four years, courtesy of Google location services. If you would like to find out what is being collected about you, and how to make it stop, the next two articles will help. Today ...
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.An very cool. detailed, and facinating look at how technology is changing and breaking the spy game from foreignpolicy.com. Worth the read.
The world of espionage is facing tremendous technological, political, legal, social, and commercial changes. The winners will be those who break the old rules of the spy ...
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The idea of someone tracking your whereabouts and eavesdropping on your conversations can be unsettling. Yet, more than 58,000 Google Android users had this happen to them. That’s because these individuals had stalkerware installed on their smartphones. Stalkerware is legal but often considered unethical. Find out what stalkerware is and how it can get on your smartphone.
Stalkerware is not limited to Android phones. It can be installed ...
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Your web browser collects data about you and shares it with the websites you visit. Your smartphone collects a ton of data about you and some of it goes to the carrier, but most of it is sold to data brokers by the developers of all those “free” apps you installed. You car is collecting data about you too. Where you go, how ...
