The first phase of Apple and Google’s contact tracing framework allows public health authorities across the world to connect their apps with data that could help them identify people at risk from coronavirus.
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Password-free database of exercise app Kinomap leaks 42m user records
It’s like a cloud of personal information breathed out in a plume by a database that didn’t bother to wear a mask.
Instagram stalker app Ghosty yanked from Play store
It was sucking up private profiles by requiring users to hand over their logins, giving it access to whatever accounts they follow.
Apple pulls Instagram-watching app from store
Apple has yanked an app from its iTunes App Store that allowed Instagram users to follow their friends’ activities on the social network.
Open Sesame! Zipato’s smart hub hacked to open front doors
The Zipato controller has three critical security flaws which could be used together by hackers to open your home’s doors for you, according to researchers.
Rogue websites can turn vulnerable browser extensions into back doors
A researcher has found that websites can use some extensions to bypass security policies, execute code, and even install other extensions.
Hacker says USPS ignored serious security flaw for over a year
A security researcher claims the US Postal Service ignored a security flaw affecting 60 million users, until it was contacted by a journalist.
Google+ wakes up to what the rest of us already knew
Google’s closing down the platform nobody uses and might face a class-action lawsuit over a G+ spawned breach it took 7 months to report.
Millions of Twitter DMs may have been exposed by year-long bug
Though the bug was present for over a year, Twitter hasn’t found any DMs or protected tweets that were delivered to the wrong developer.
Twitter boots 143K bad apps, throttles developer access to API
Devs now have to register and will be capped at 10 apps, and those apps are now on a diet: no more endless gorging on spam/bot-pestering/etc.