Ironpie robot vacuum can suck up your privacy

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:37:11 +0000

You might want to unplug this not-so-smart robot: researchers found they can watch video streams piped out from its security camera.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/kGtvD8tF-C4″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook sues data analytics firm OneAudience over malicious SDK

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 11:52:59 +0000

Facebook says OneAudience paid developers to install its social-media-profile-looting SDK into their apps to get marketing data for clients.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/cTLgFQQq3iM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Memory-Lane Monday: The cruelest password

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 03:00:00 -0800

After a network manager unexpectedly tightens up the rules for passwords and forces the expiration of all user passwords on the main application system, calls flood into the help desk, reports a pilot fish on the scene. They’re having trouble because of the new complexity rules.

One of the calls:

User: I can’t seem to change my password.

Help desk tech: Your new password needs to contain letters, numbers and punctuation. Do not use any words such as you’d find in a dictionary.

User: OK. (Pause.) No, it still won’t let me change it.

Tech: What is the password you are trying to use?

User: April.

Tech: “April” is a word.

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