DNS over HTTPS (DoH), backed by Google, Mozilla and Cloudflare, is about to make web surveillance a lot more difficult.
Monthly Archives: April 2019
Phone fingerprint scanner fooled by chewing gum packet
A video has surfaced claiming to show someone unlocking a Nokia 9 by tapping a gum packet against the fingerprint scanner.
Hotspot finder app blabs 2 million Wi-Fi network passwords
If you used WiFi Finder, your passwords to both public and private networks have been left online in an unprotected database.
Once again, it’s 123456: the password that says ‘I give up’
A new survey says 46% of users find security confusing, which helps explain how that old clunker keeps popping to the top of breach lists.
Can you get hit by someone else’s ransomware? [VIDEO]
How to protect yourself from being *affected* by malware, even if you’re not yourself *infected*.
WannaCry hero Hutchins now officially a convicted cybercriminal
The youngster who spent his own money to protect people from the WannaCry virus has pleaded guilty to malware-related cybercrime charges.
Facebook: we logged 100x more Instagram plaintext passwords than we thought
Facebook has updated ‘tens of thousands of plaintext Instagram passwords ended up in logfile’ to say it was more like a million.
Serious Security: Ransomware you’ll never find – and how to stop it
What if you got hit by ransomware – but the malware program itself was on the other side of the world where you’d never find it?
Facebook user data used as bargaining chip, according to leaked docs
Leaked internal docs used to claim “privacy was an afterthought” at Facebook
Google plays Whack-A-Mole with naughty Android developers
Android developers without a track record are going to be submitted to more checks in order to stamp out those of “bad faith.”