Security News

Personal Data Sharing by Mobile Apps (Schneier on Security)
2015-11-13 12:08

Interesting research: "Who Knows What About Me? A Survey of Behind the Scenes Personal Data Sharing to Third Parties by Mobile Apps," by Jinyan Zang, Krysta Dummit, James Graves, Paul Lisker, and...

Apple to Remove 256 iOS Apps Using Private APIs, Collecting Personal Data (Threatpost)
2015-10-19 20:40

Apple said it will remove 256 misbehaving apps from its App Store that were using private APIs to pull personal and device information.

Wealth of personal data found on used electronics purchased online (Help Net Security)
2015-10-07 12:49

Varying amounts and types of residual data have been found on used mobile devices, hard disk drives and solid state drives purchased online from Amazon, eBay and Gazelle.com. Based on an examinatio...