Many people have moved to facial recognition to unlock their iPhone, mostly because it is easy. Researchers wanted to know how secure that is. For those people who use their face to authorize payments, the problem is, maybe, a bit more serious. Researchers at Tel Aviv University harnessed deep fakes and that magic word, AI, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If you were using your phone and visited a web site when a message popped up that said something like “we want to sell your data to anyone we want and you get nothing for that – do we have your permission to do that?” – what would your answer be? Well, if you are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Since the beginning of Apple-time (or is it i-time?), Apple has always bundled security fixes into iOS upgrades. This means that a user could not install a security update without also upgrading the OS. In general, Apple has always forced users to upgrade their iPhones and other mobile devices. This tends to make Apple products […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Since Apple doesn’t make a lot of money by selling your data to others (or selling targeted ads to others based on data that it captures), it loves poking Google in the eye about its data collection practices. Apple required “privacy nutrition labels” by vendors, including themselves, for all new releases of software distributed in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google Gives Up On Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) ASLR is a security technique that has been used for years to make it harder for hackers to FIND code in memory to compromise it. There is a problem in the rendering engine in the Chromium project that breaks ASLR and Google says that they won’t […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Apple is preparing to add a new prompt to iOS that requires users to opt-in to tracking by app developers like Facebook. It used to be that you could opt-out — if you could find the place to do that. Facebook is going to have its own screen telling you how wonderful it is to […]
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