Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 16:25:24 +0000
Android’s December 2019 updates arrived this week, patching a small list of system and Qualcomm flaws across the operating system’s two patch levels.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/Z6rqHUlLVrM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 15:31:29 +0000
Yodel’s mobile parcel delivery app was leaking people’s delivery data to others using the app, a security researcher discovered.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/JLW56DeeTmY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2019 10:18:02 +0000
It’s a grabby little app, data-wise, but how is it different from, say, Google or Facebook?<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/nPnVqJv23S8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 12:49:19 +0000
Hundreds of users gave permission to these third-party apps to access their social media accounts, but the apps got more handsy than that.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/TEWLcroc9-8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: James A. Martin| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 06:24:00 -0800
Even if you're usually savvy about cybersecurity, anyone can have a vulnerable moment (in our writer's case, it was his mother's funeral).
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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 06:14:00 -0800
Apple has at last confirmed which routers and smart home security systems will support the HomeKit Secure Video and HomeKit-enabled routers systems it introduced in iOS 13.
HomeKit Secure Video and HomeKit-enabled routers patch two of the bigger gaps in smart home security coverage: they give users strong control over who can access video captured in your home and provide a welcome additional barrier against hackers and others attempting to break into home networks via the router.
Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 11:30:16 +0000
We have to protect the constitutional rights of the innocent, and that can mean shielding guilty-as-hell child abusers, the court said.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/tytTDlPZrB0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 07:36:00 -0800
Apple isn’t (yet) among the signatories for a global campaign to save the web launched by Tim Berners-Lee.
I hope this is something the company plans to change.
Berners-Lee, inventor of the web, is concerned that the web is becoming a forum for political manipulation, fake news, privacy violations and other harms that he fears may plunge us all into what he calls “digital dystopia.”
He’s launched a new global action plan and is asking governments, companies and individuals to commit to protecting the web and ensuring it benefits humanity.
“The power of the web to transform people’s lives, enrich society and reduce inequality is one of the defining opportunities of our time,” he said.
Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 12:31:17 +0000
The Russian Government’s campaign to control how its citizens use the internet seems to be gathering steam.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/GmGUPDAdwPA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 11:11:11 +0000
He was supposed to be serving a 24-year sentence in the “maximum security” prison, not continuing the fraud… and going to parties.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/ZeLPW2Cof14″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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