Collaborate Disseminate
The question of whether our smartphones are always listening to us is cropping up on online forums and Twitter almost daily, and most users have had the experience of talking about something then, soon after that, seeing online ads about that specific … Continue reading Is your smartphone secretly listening to you?
You’re listening to the Shared Security Podcast, exploring the trust you put in people, apps, and technology…with your host, Tom Eston. In episode 84 for September 2nd 2019: “Ghost click” Android apps found on the Google P… Continue reading Android “Ghost Click” Apps, New Apple Siri Privacy Protections, Credit Card Spying
Google is expanding the Google Play Security Reward Program (GPSRP) to include all apps in Google Play with 100 million or more installs, and is launching a new Developer Data Protection Reward Program (DDPRP) and asking for information about data abus… Continue reading Google will pay for data abuse reports related to popular Android apps, Chrome extensions
Monzo, a UK-based mobile-only bank, has notified a subset of its users that their PINs have been inadvertently leaked into internal log files and were accessible to some of the company’s engineers. “No information’s been exposed outsi… Continue reading Digital bank Monzo urges customers to change PINs following security breach
With so many risky mobile apps out there, one way of reducing this risk is to start looking into your BYOD practices and determining if they make sense for your organization.
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The privacy panic over FaceApp, the selfie-editing mobile app that makes photo subjects younger, older or turns them into members of the opposite sex, has been overblown. The (overblown) issue FaceApp is an iOS and Android app developed by Russian comp… Continue reading FaceApp privacy panic: Be careful which apps you use
Be careful before installing that mobile app on your iOS or Android device – many mobile applications are riddled with vulnerabilities. Continue reading Mobile apps riddled with high-risk vulnerabilities, warns report
Most iOS apps don’t take advantage of App Transport Security (ATS), a networking security feature offered by Apple that ensures encrypted connections between apps and the servers they communicate with. The main reason, it seems, might be interru… Continue reading Two-thirds of iOS apps don’t use App Transport Security
Great news for users who want to hide their location when surfing the web and prevent websites from tracking their activity: Tor, the online security and privacy-focused browser, is now available on Android, the development team announced in a blog pos… Continue reading Improved, Stable Tor Browser Released for Android
In an attempt to thwart Android developers who are set to distribute malicious apps through Google Play, Google will be taking more time when reviewing apps by developers with newly minted accounts. This reviewing process will take days, not weeks, Goo… Continue reading Google will check apps by new developers more thoroughly