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 ...
A guest post by KC Karnes
The climate around mobile app security is heating up.
Mobile app vulnerabilities are exploited every day, resulting in expensive data breaches and loss of public trust.
In this section, we will try to learn from the failures of other companies and highlight how real the threats outlined above can be.
Starting in December of 2017, TimeHop was ...
Continue Reading →It’s something that we hear a lot about – mobile devices have become an integral part of our society. Can you remember the last time that you switched your phone off for the weekend? Can you even imagine not having your phone with you all the time? If you’re like most people, the idea is ludicrous. We keep everything on our phones.
It’s convenient for us – you don’t have to boot ...
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Literally, a gold mine. A team or researchers analyzed an iPhone to see what elements were used in manufacturing one. You must watch the video (below), where they toss an iPhone into a blender.
Years ago, when I was in school, they tried to give us the metric system, but we rejected it. For those of you that need help with conversion, there are ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.March 31 is World Backup Day. Monday is April Fool’s Day. Coincidence? I think not. I you are one of the hold-outs who is going to get around to it someday, today is your chance.
Google’s Project Zero researchers have revealed a “high ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Check this out from the Simple Dollar. Tax-related identity theft is a growing problem in America, and the more security breaches, information hacks and digital business we do as a society, the more consumers who fall victim to it. In fact, in 2016 alone, thieves stole more than $21 ...
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Is it a USB cable or a Trojan horse? We have come to consider Trojan horses to be malicious software these days, and part of the virtual world, But the original Trojan Horse was a very physical device. And so is this stunning USB style Trojan.
Called the O.MG Cable by its creator, Mike Grover, whose online handle is MG, this device ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.The Register reports that a seller on the Dream Market – a Dark Web marketplace hidden by the encrypted layers of Tor – began offering 16 stolen databases with 620 million accounts.
Why do app developers ...
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Lately there have been a spate of incidents involving smartphone apps for the iPhone and Android phones that were discovered to be malicious in various ways. The important commonality in these revelations was that cyber-criminals had actually modified legitimate apps by hijacking several developer’s credentials, including their “Developer Certificate.” The developer key provides a digital signature that validates the app as being the ...
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.It can be overwhelming to learn you’ve been a victim of identity theft. As in your case, crimes involving identity theft and credit fraud are often committed online.
There are other options for photo sharing ...
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