According to a new report, nearly 30% of all US calls placed in the first half of 2019 were garbage, as in, nuisance, scam or fraud calls.
Tag Archives: Mobile
iPhone lockscreen bypass: iOS 13 tricked into showing your contacts
This time, José Rodríguez came up with a way to trick the iOS 13 beta into showing its address book without the need to unlock the screen.
Simjacker silent phone hack could affect a billion users
The shadowy world of phone-surveillance-for-hire became a little clearer last week following the discovery of a phone exploit called Simjacker.
Error-laden phone location data suspended from use in Danish courts
10,700 cases will be reviewed over 2 months, and 32 detainees have already been released after finding bugs in software and raw telecom data.
Facebook says location data in iOS 13, Android 10 may be confusing
The OS updates may not reflect your Facebook app setting, but Facebook says it will respect whatever users’ most restrictive settings are.
Google & Apple pushed to reveal gun scope app users’ names to feds
It’s a first: The government has never demanded personal data of a single app’s users from Apple & Google.
Android gets September update as price of flaws soars
When is a security update not a security update? When it’s patching flaws in a version of an OS nobody beyond developers is yet running.
Facebook loses control of key used to sign Android app
What should be a private key used to vouch for the ‘Free Basics by Facebook’ app was used to sign unrelated apps.
iPhone attack may have targeted Android and Windows too
A sophisticated and sustained watering hole attack affecting iPhones may have targeted Windows and Android too.
China’s new face-swapping app Zao gets whiplash-fast privacy backlash
Fast trip: in two days, it debuted, shot to the top of China’s App Store, sparked privacy outrage, and got banned by WeChat.