The Taococo FREDI baby monitor has repeatedly been criticized for being easy to hack.
Tag Archives: Privacy
Court says suspect can’t be forced to reveal 64-character password
We have to protect the constitutional rights of the innocent, and that can mean shielding guilty-as-hell child abusers, the court said.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee publishes plan to save the web from ‘digital dystopia’
Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has proposed a ‘Contract for the Web’ to rescue it from a headlong plunge into a moral abyss.
Ad-blocking companies block ‘unblockable’ tracker
Ad-blockers have figured out a way to block the unblockable – a pernicious tracker technique that hides advertising networks in plain sight.
DNS-over-HTTPS is coming to Windows 10
Microsoft will soon add the ability to use DNS-over-HTTPS and DNS-over-TLS into its networking client.
Android camera bug could have turned phones against their users
Google has patched a bug in the Android camera app that allowed other applications to bypass the strict controls on camera and audio access.
Update WhatsApp now: MP4 video bug exposes your messages
A now-patched-hole could have allowed remote code execution that could have exposed files and messages. Update your WhatsApp now.
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.
NSA won’t collect phone location data, promises US government
US intelligence agencies won’t harvest US residents’ geolocation data in future investigations, revealed the US government this month.
Data thieves blew cover after maxing out victim’s hard drive
The FTC has reached a settlement with InfoTrax after thieves stole a million sensitive customer records from its servers in 2016.