NoCrackingZone | Archives | 2019 | February

Thousands of Android apps bypass Advertising ID to track users

Posted on February 19, 2019 by nocrackingzone

Six years after it was introduced, it looks as if Android’s Advertising ID (AAID) might no longer be the privacy forcefield Google claimed it would be.

If you think your deleted Twitter DMs are sliding into the trash, you’re wrong

Posted on February 19, 2019 by nocrackingzone

They’re never deleted, just erased from the UI. You can still see archived messages if you download your data.

Facebook acts like a law-breaking ‘digital gangster’, says official report

Posted on February 19, 2019 by nocrackingzone

Facebook considers itself to be “ahead of and beyond the law,” UK lawmakers said in a report about “disinformation and ‘fake news.'”

Fake text generator is so good its creators don’t want to release full version

Posted on February 19, 2019 by nocrackingzone

OpenAI has created what amounts to a text version of a deepfake – and it’s too scared for humanity to release the full version.

Mega-crackers back with nearly 100 million new stolen data records

Posted on February 18, 2019 by nocrackingzone

Sounds like the crooks who tried to sell more than 600 million records last week are back with nearly 100 million more…

Opera integrates a cryptocurrency wallet – is this Web 3.0?

Posted on February 18, 2019 by nocrackingzone

When it appears in the next few weeks, the next version of Opera (“Reborn 3” or “R3”) for Windows, Mac and Linux will become the first mainstream desktop browser to integrate a cryptocurrency wallet.