A trio of bugs could have opened Android 7, 8 and 9 to remote attackers wielding booby-trapped image files. Here’s what you need to know…
Daily Archives: February 8, 2019
iPhone apps record your screen sessions without asking
Absent from privacy policies, the tracking came to light after a breach with Air Canada’s mobile app, then password slurping from Mixpanel.
Child abuse imagery found in cryptocurrency blockchain
For the second time in a year, illegal child abuse images have been spotted inside a blockchain. According to a post by web blockchain payments system Money Button, on 30 January its service was abused to place “illegal content” inside the Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV) ledger, a recent cryptocurrency hard fork from Bitcoin Cash [BCH]. […]
Student gets creative with data accidentally blasted out by university
A university employee accidentally emailed a spreadsheet containing personal information on every one of the college’s 4,557 students.
Police demands Waze stop pinpointing their checkpoints
Waze users are helping intoxicated drivers to evade checkpoints and could thus be “engaging in criminal conduct,” say police.
Facebook ordered to keep apps data separate without user consent
So much for creating a three-headed Cerberus marketing-happy chat dog! Also, we’ll soon see the who-what-huh? behind the ads we’re shown.