Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2022 15:42:56 +0000
This week on Lock and Code, we talk with some of the team behind Malwarebytes Labs about whether we’ve lost the fight for data privacy.
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Credit to Author: JR Raphael| Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 03:00:00 -0700
When it comes to Android and privacy, we’re accustomed to seeing things move in a certain direction.
It’s simple, really: With each new Android version, it usually gets easier to manage your privacy and understand how your information is being used. And we typically get more front-facing tools and under-the-hood improvements that allow us to handle that stuff intelligently. Obviously, right?
Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 15:17:26 +0000
This week on Lock and Code, we discuss how law enforcement can now use your data, ever since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
The post Roe v. Wade: How the cops can use your data: Lock and Code S03E15 appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
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Credit to Author: JR Raphael| Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 03:00:00 -0700
Man, I had one hell of a streak.
All these years — approximately 7,967 since I first started using and writing about Android — and somehow, rather miraculously, I’d never outright broken a phone.
Impressive, I know. But don’t let yourself get wrapped in awe yet, my fellow drop-dreading denizen: My streak of impeccable Android phone protection has officially come to a crashing halt.
Now, I didn’t technically drop my phone, mind you. And I didn’t technically break it myself, either. But it was definitely broken. And it happened on my watch.
Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2022 14:51:08 +0000
According to the FCC commissioner, TikTok being a video app is the “sheep’s clothing”, suggesting a wolf hides underneath those funny videos.
The post TikTok is “unacceptable security risk” and should be removed from app stores, says FCC appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
Read moreCredit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2022 10:36:11 +0000
A new bill proposes the strongest Federal data privacy protections yet for reproductive and sexual health data.
The post My Body, My Data Act would lock down reproductive and sexual health data appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
Read moreCredit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 23 May 2022 15:27:11 +0000
This week on Lock and Code, we speak with Whitney Merrill about why it is so difficult to get your own data from a company.
The post Hunting down your data with Whitney Merrill: Lock and Code S03E11 appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Thu, 12 May 2022 08:38:00 -0700
Apple may have put some of its plans to scan devices for CSAM material on hold, but the European Commission has put them right back in the spotlight with a move to force messaging services to begin monitoring for such material.
In terms of child protection, it’s a good thing. Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) is a far bigger problem than many people realize; victims of this appalling trade end up with shattered lives.
Credit to Author: Charlotte Trueman| Date: Wed, 04 May 2022 04:22:00 -0700
Google Cloud has announced a new set of Sovereign Controls for users of its Workspace productivity software, aimed at allowing organizations in both the public and private sector to better control, limit, and monitor data transfers to and from the European Union.
The changes look to have come in response to a range of recent European Union efforts to better protect the personal data of members when using cloud services, following the collapse of Privacy Shield.
Credit to Author: Evan Schuman| Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 11:35:00 -0700
Have you recently been on a video confefence call, hit the “mute” button and then offered up some nasty comments about a client or a colleague — or even the boss?
Or maybe while in a conference room with colleagues — muted — and pointed out that some proposed action would violate the terms of a secret acquisition in its final stages?
If you were comfortable that the mute button was actively protecting your secret, you shouldn’t have been.
Thanks to some impressive experimentation and research from a group of academics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Loyola University Chicago, utterances made while the app is in mute are still captured and saved into RAM.