By this time next year, says Chairman Ajit Pai, the FCC wants to see an anti-robocall system on consumers’ phones – or else.
Monthly Archives: November 2018
Voting machine manual tells officials to reuse weak passwords
The manual turns good advice on its head, telling officials to use, reuse and recycle weak passwords.
Serious XSS flaw discovered in Evernote for Windows, update now!
Online-note-sharing company Evernote has patched a hole that allowed attackers to infect notes shared via its service.
WhatsApp ‘martinelli’ warning is a hoax, don’t forward it
A WhatsApp chain letter is warning of a malware-packing video called “martinelli”, and selling its lie with a grain of truth.
Android November update fixes flaws galore
Android’s November security bulletin is here and there’s more to patch, and more urgency about applying them.
Facebook wants to reveal your name to the weirdo standing next to you
Facebook’s had a patent approved for a new way to sniff out potential friends, based on your phone and patterns of movement.
Is the US about to get a nationwide, privately owned, biometrics system?
Two US biometric companies have partnered to research a private, nationwide biometrics system.
Children’s apps contain an average of 7 third-party trackers, study finds
Android apps in the “Family” category had a surprisingly high number of trackers embedded in them.
CIA’s secret online network unravelled with a Google search
The US government is reeling from a catastrophic, years-long intelligence failure that compromised its internet-based covert communications.
Private Facebook data from 81,000 accounts discovered on crime forum
Stolen data from the 81,000 accounts that appeared to be genuine included intimate exchanges between Facebook users.