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Meet the hackers who flip seized Instagram handles and cryptocurrency in a shady, buzzing underground market for stolen accounts and usernames. Their victims' weakness? Phone numbers.
European leaders need to bring immigration numbers down, and metadata on smartphones could be just what they need to start sending migrants back
If you’ve ever had the sneaking suspicion that your phone might be watching you, new research suggests you’re not being paranoid.
The past month has seen one blockbuster revelation after another about how our mobile phone and broadband providers have been leaking highly sensitive customer information, including real-time location data and customer account details. In the wake of these consumer privacy…
Widely available services offer a range of spying abilities, including tracking people’s phones and harvesting their texts. As survivors seek help, the legal and technical hurdles are many.
Thousands of the most popular apps and games available, mostly free of charge, in the Google Play Store, make potentially illegal tracking of children's use habits, according to a large-scale international study co-authored by Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, a researcher at the IMDEA Networks Institute in Madrid and ICSI, the International Computer Science Institute at the University of California, Berkeley (USA).
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), passed in 1998, governs the sort of data that can be collected from children...
Using a menstruapp can mean telling the app regularly if you went out, drank, smoked, had an orgasm, what your poop looked like, if your skin is clear, how you feel, and if your vaginal discharge has a strong odor or looks like cottage cheese.
A company catering to law enforcement and corrections officers has raised privacy concerns with a product that can locate almost anyone’s cellphone across the United States.
Nice mention of a Kali exploit for Android. Might have to try that one.
When you walk into a brick and mortar retail store like a Nordstrom, Cabela, or even Family Dollar, you're being tracked around the store. Not by an over-suspicious security guard, but by the store's wireless network, using your phone's Wi-Fi. The store then uses your phone to track you around the store, determine if…
Here is a short blog post that explains how you can make your own Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) setup for sniffing the traffic between a SIM card and the backend server. This is NOT a new research but I hope this will help anyone who doesn't have a telco background to get started to play with mobile data sniffing and fake base stations. This is applicable to many scenarios today as we have so many ...
At CES this week, the Wi-Fi Alliance announced WPA3, the newest security protocol for Wi-Fi devices.
"Apple is pretty good at evil genius stuff," FBI official laments at conference.
The devices and security measures used throughout an organization play a significant role in enabling safe, efficient remote work. Unfortunately, it can be quite challenging to determine which devices should be granted access to corporate data.
Oral arguments this week might help the law catch up to technology.