How, Exactly, Would the Government Keep a Crypto Backdoor Secret? The Five Eyes (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Great Britain) countries issued a statement last week saying that if software makers did not voluntarily give them a back door into encrypted apps they may pursue forcing them to do that by law. Australia and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]No big surprise here really, but still disappointing. Researchers at Def Con last week reported that they had found 47 vulnerabilities in the firmware and default apps of 25 Android phones. When they talk firmware, I don’t think they really mean firmware. Rather, they mean the operating system like Android Oreo or Nougat, although it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Health IT Security wrote an article beating up Amazon on it’s HIPAA compliance process. The article was not favorable and also interesting. The issue that they are talking about was a medic-alert style bracelet that someone bought on Amazon. After this person bought it, the vendor put a picture of it, with the lady’s name, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Timehop Hack Compromises 21 Million Users In a bit of good news/bad news, the social media time capsule site Timehop said that it was hacked around July 4th, but that they interrupted the hack in progress. Still the hackers got usernames, passwords, email addresses, date of birth, gender, some phone numbers and other information for […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If you can’t beat them on the battlefield, beat them in cyberspace. Israel has accused Hamas of creating a fake dating app and targeting both male and female Israeli soldiers to download the app. Once installed, the app has the ability to see the soldier’s location, contact list and to use the phone as a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For some people, they don’t really care. For other people, it is a complete invasion of privacy. For both groups, it is happening every day. Apps sometimes ask for permission to read your mail. It could be to get rid of junk mail or clean your mailbox or many other reasons, but in all cases, […]
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