Highly sensitive user data collected from the app was left on a badly secured website for anybody to get at.
Monthly Archives: May 2018
Police dog sniffs out USB drive to snare school hacker
Police traced an “electronic trail” to the suspect’s house where the USB drive was hidden.
The next Android version’s killer feature? Security patches
Not before time, Google is addressing the mess it’s made of Android updates
The EFAIL vulnerability – why it’s OK to keep on using email
The EFAIL bug shows how to trick some mail clients into turning the email encryption tools S/MIME and OpenPGP against themselves.
Prison phone service can expose the location of anyone with a phone
The system requires that you have legal authority to use it, but doesn’t check
Nest turns up the temperature on password reusers
Nest’s advice to its users gets a thumbs-up from the Online Trust Alliance.
Warehouse full of digital copiers yields truckloads of secrets
Copiers’ hard drives aren’t typically encrypted or wiped. One result: a used copier with 300 people’s medical records: just hit “print!”
Is Google’s Duplex AI helpful or plain creepy?
Last week, Google CEO Sundar Pichai used the company’s annual I/O event to demo an experimental new feature of Google Assistant: Duplex.
Remote code execution bug found in GPON routers, but how bad is it really?
An anonymous researcher recently disclosed two vulnerabilities in several older models of Dasan-made GPON routers.
2 million lines of source code left exposed by phone company EE
What should be secret AWS and API keys were (un)secured with the default password credentials: “admin” as the name, “admin” for a password.