Collaborate Disseminate
Government surveillance is a longstanding topic of conspiracy theorists, but there’s something arguably much more widespread that’s concerning: the way companies collect information about customers and often don’t allow them to opt out and continue usi… Continue reading The Fuzzy Line Between Necessary Information and Invasion of Privacy
Air Canada has suffered a data breach and is forcing a password reset on all 1.7 million users of its mobile app, though apparently only 20,000 of the mobile app accounts were accessed by the attackers. How did it happen? “We detected unusual log… Continue reading Air Canada confirms mobile app data breach, passport numbers were accessed
It is official: “Android P” is Android Pie, and it comes with a variety of new capabilities and security and privacy changes. The newest version (9.0) of the popular mobile OS introduces a new system navigation featuring a single home butto… Continue reading Android Pie: Security and privacy changes
Google will start adding security metadata to Android application packages (APKs) distributed via Google Play, so that users with limited internet access can check whether the apps they get via peer-to-peer app sharing are legitimate. The move, announc… Continue reading Google lays groundwork for secure offline app distribution
Appthority published research on its discovery of a new HospitalGown threat variant that occurs when app developers fail to require authentication to Google Firebase databases. Appthority security researchers discovered the HospitalGown vulnerability i… Continue reading 3,000+ mobile apps leaking data from unsecured Firebase databases
According to new rules recently published by Apple, iOS app developers must refrain from creating a database of the information gleaned from users’ Contacts and to sell it on. Wealth of private information The information contained in Contacts ca… Continue reading Apple prohibits developers from using, selling users’ Contacts
An analysis of 10,000 mobile apps has found that a significant portion of them are open to web API hijacking – thanks to inconsistencies between app and server logic in web APIs. Continue reading WARDroid Uncovers Mobile Threats to Millions of Users Worldwide
No device is safe from criminals looking to make it stealthily mine cryptocurrency for them. However weak its processing power is, it still costs them nothing. With that in mind, forced crypto mining attacks have also begun hitting mobile phones and ta… Continue reading Millions of Android devices forced to mine Monero for crooks
DuckDuckGo, the company behind the eponymous privacy-minded Internet search engine, has announced a new browser extension and mobile app: DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials. DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials does four things: It makes DuckDuckGo the default sea… Continue reading DuckDuckGo offers new privacy extension and app
Appthority released its latest report: Q4 Appthority Pulse Report Finds Tinder and Instagram Added to Enterprise Blacklists. In fact, there’s rather more to it than Tinder and Instagram. If you aren’t sure whether to jump straight in and gi… Continue reading Apps: enterprise blacklist data