Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 14:47:23 +0000
A sophisticated and sustained watering hole attack affecting iPhones may have targeted Windows and Android too.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/3wCw5XE352c” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 10:53:53 +0000
Fast trip: in two days, it debuted, shot to the top of China’s App Store, sparked privacy outrage, and got banned by WeChat.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/Jf1X-mppWbo” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 10:39:18 +0000
FBI agents issued Google with a warrant in November 2018, seeking its help with a bank robbery the month before.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/jfyUzpPb6Ww” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2019 10:51:32 +0000
Google’s going to throw more bug bounty money at the problem of nasty apps in its Play Store, it announced on Thursday. In a post from the Android Security & Privacy team’s Adam Bacchus, Sebastian Porst, and Patrick Mutchler , the company said that it’s throwing the security net over not just its own apps, but […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/bPMJRaBtj94″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 12:07:32 +0000
Production systems aren’t supposed to have the ADB turned on, but some set-top boxes do.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/YVYbkKJr18k” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 11:58:00 +0000
It won’t happen again, Facebook told senators who wondered how well it’s handling kids’ privacy in the chat app abhorred by kids advocates.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/A2XiqyuYDg4″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 04:15:00 -0700
Alternative search engines such as DuckDuckGo are attracting growing numbers of privacy focused users, but there’s no doubt that Google dominates the industry, even on Apple products. Fortunately, there are several ways to make your Google activity more private.
Do you use Gmail? Did you one use Google +? Perhaps you employ Google Drive, Google Docs or any of the company’s other products. If so, you have a Google account.
Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 09:16:09 +0000
Google Project Zero researcher Maddie Stone has found a new and concerning route for malware to find its way on to Android devices – malicious apps that have been factory pre-installed.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/vAwqo-IqEMU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 11:44:22 +0000
It formalizes the reality: “pre-jailbroken” iPhones were already on the black market.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/SFMBPoyjIsk” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 03:00:00 -0700
Public tests of blockchain-based mobile voting are growing.
Even as there’s been an uptick in pilot projects, security experts warn that blockchain-based mobile voting technology is innately insecure and potentially a danger to democracy through “wholesale fraud” or “manipulation tactics.”
The topic of election security has been in the spotlight recently after Congress held classified briefings on U.S. cyber infrastructure to identify and defend against threats to the election system, especially after Russian interference was uncovered in the 2016 Presidential election.