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Siri and Google Assistant hacked in new ultrasonic attack

March 2, 2020 0 Comments Android, Apple, bixby, dolphin attack, dolphinattack, Google, Google Assistant, Huawei, lyrebird, motorola, Privacy, Samsung, security threats, Siri, surfingattack, ultrasonic waves, Ultrasound, voice assistants, xiaomi

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 13:07:04 +0000

Researchers have demonstrated how voice assistants can be secretly activated without ever physically touching the device.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/d4GKhM4slSc” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Ironpie robot vacuum can suck up your privacy

March 2, 2020 0 Comments 2-factor Authentication, Checkmarx, Internet of Things, IoT, perceptin, Privacy, robot vacuum, robots, rsa, rsa conference, security threats, shodan, smart vacuum, trifo ironpie, vulnerability, webcam

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

March 2, 2020 0 Comments advertising, Android, data analytics, data loss, data slurping, facebook, grabby apps, iOS, Law & order, lawsuit, malicious sdks, Marketing, mobiburn, Mobile, mobile marketing, one audience, oneaudience, Privacy, profile slurping, profiles, rogue sdks, sdk, sdks, security threats, Social networks, software development kit, third party apps, twitter

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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Clearview AI loses entire database of faceprint-buying clients to hackers

February 28, 2020 0 Comments AI, Artificial intelligence, biometric information privacy act, biometrics, BIPA, clearview ai, data loss, data scraping, faceprints, facial recognition, hoan ton-that, Law & order, law enforcement, Privacy, security threats

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 12:08:19 +0000

Time to worry about how well the facial recognition startup protects its 3b+ database of faceprints scraped from our social media accounts?<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/UEh1lsdY7KE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Ransomware wipes evidence, lets suspected drug dealers walk free

February 28, 2020 0 Comments deleted evidence, drug dealer, Florida, Law & order, malware, Ransomware, security threats, stuart

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 12:04:27 +0000

Six alleged drug criminals will go free thanks to a ransomware attack on a small Florida city, it was revealed this month.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/-YH21vT56Rs” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Slickwraps data breach earns scorn for all

February 27, 2020 0 Comments breach, data breach, data hack, data leak, data loss, exposed data, Hacker, lynx0x00, Privacy, security threats, slickwraps, vinyl skins, vulnerability

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 14:47:39 +0000

The breach earned derision from both the hacker and observers after another hacker exploited the company’s vulnerable setup.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/MqNwwvLAhW0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Apple’s iOS pasteboard leaks location data to spy apps

February 26, 2020 0 Comments Apple, copy and paste, gps data, iOS, location data, mysk, Operating Systems, OS X, pasteboard, Privacy, security threats

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 16:28:24 +0000

A developer has discovered that malicious apps could exploit the pasteboard to work out a user’s location.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/C0t83agCkD4″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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LTE vulnerability allows impersonation of other mobile devices

February 26, 2020 0 Comments 4g, 5G, data loss, dns spoofing, imp4gt, impersonation attacks, impersonation attacks in 4g networks, lte, man-in-the-middle attack, Mobile, mobile operators, Privacy, security threats

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 16:27:45 +0000

Researchers have found a way to impersonate mobile devices on 4G and 5G mobile networks, and are calling on operators and standards bodies to fix the flaw that caused it.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/FZepiqGAIX0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Switch to Signal for encrypted messaging, EC tells staff

February 26, 2020 0 Comments chat apps, Cryptography, cyber espionage, data loss, european commission, Law & order, messaging, messaging apps, Mobile, pegasus, Privacy, secret messaging, security threats, signal, spying, whatsapp

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 11:31:35 +0000

Formerly preferred diplomatic app WhatsApp apparently isn’t up to snuff.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/mRJrv_YSfXw” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Google stops indexing WhatsApp chats; other search engines still at it

February 25, 2020 0 Comments chat, data loss, facebook, Google, group chat, invite code, online privacy, Privacy, private chat groups, search engine, security threats, Social networks, whatsapp, whatsapp groups

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 17:51:22 +0000

Private chat invites aren’t meant to be unfindable, Facebook says, though a snippet of code eventually shielded them from Google indexing.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/De9SWjTWYs0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>