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Tag Archives: Privacy
Serious XSS vulnerability discovered in Signal
Researchers have discovered a serious cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting all desktop versions of Edward Snowden’s favourite security application, Signal.
Facebook app left 3 million users’ data exposed for four years
Highly sensitive user data collected from the app was left on a badly secured website for anybody to get at.
Prison phone service can expose the location of anyone with a phone
The system requires that you have legal authority to use it, but doesn’t check
Warehouse full of digital copiers yields truckloads of secrets
Copiers’ hard drives aren’t typically encrypted or wiped. One result: a used copier with 300 people’s medical records: just hit “print!”
Apple boots out apps that abuse location data collection
GDPR is coming and Apple’s spring cleaning the App Store
iOS 11.4 to come with 7-day USB shutout
After 7 days if there’s no passcode, then there’s no access.
Could this be the end of password re-use?
It’s password security’s Achilles heel: too many people make life easy for cybercriminals by re-using the same ones over and over. But what if there were a way for websites to compare notes on whether a password (or similar password) has been set by a user elsewhere?
Pentagon orders military exchanges to pull Chinese smartphones over security risks
Huawei and ZTE are already telephones non gratae, tied too close for comfort to the Chinese Communist Party and People’s Liberation Army back home.
Budget Android manufacturer Blu settles with FTC over privacy fiasco
These are the phones that were calling home to Shanghai every 72 hours, with no opt-in or notice, to hand over a whole lot of PII.