Security News

Twitter 2FA phone numbers “inadvertently” used for advertising purposes
2019-10-09 12:13

Twitter’s Support account published the following announcement on Tuesday: We recently found that some email addresses and phone numbers provided for account security may have been used...

Twitter Uses Phone Numbers, Emails to Sell Ads
2019-10-09 11:25

Data collected for two-factor authentication purposes “inadvertently” matched users to targeted-advertising lists, the company admits.

You Gave Your Phone Number to Twitter for Security and Twitter Used it for Ads
2019-10-09 09:04

After exposing private tweets, plaintext passwords, and personal information for hundreds of thousands of its users, here is a new security blunder social networking company Twitter admitted...

Twitter Admits Phone Numbers Meant for Security Used for Ads
2019-10-08 23:45

Twitter on Tuesday apologized after "inadvertently" using phone numbers and email addresses for advertising even though the personal data was provided for account security. Twitter users' phone...

Zero-Day Used in the Wild Impacts Pixel 2, Other Android Phones
2019-10-04 12:41

Fully patched Pixel 2 devices, even those running Android 10 preview, are impacted by a vulnerability that has already been abused in attacks, a Google Project Zero security researcher has...

New 0-Day Flaw Affecting Most Android Phones Being Exploited in the Wild
2019-10-04 09:19

Another day, another revelation of a critical unpatched zero-day vulnerability, this time in the world's most widely used mobile operating system, Android. What's more? The Android zero-day...

Egyptian government caught tracking opponents and activists through phone apps
2019-10-04 04:59

Intelligence services developed system, says security outfit The Egyptian government has been targeting and tracking citizens in a sophisticated spying program that allows it to read emails, log...

Just Sending a GIF via WhatsApp Could Have Hacked Your Android Phone
2019-10-03 08:48

A picture is worth a thousand words, but a GIF is worth a thousand pictures. Today, the short looping clips, GIFs are everywhere—on your social media, on your message boards, on your chats,...

Prey’s new capability locks and alarms laptops, phones and tablets during non-use hours
2019-09-24 02:00

Prey, provider of the cross-platform, open source anti-theft software that protects more than eight million mobile devices, announced Scheduled Automations, a new capability available to...

Could EarEcho change the way we authenticate our phones?
2019-09-23 10:09

Researchers have discovered a way to use wireless earbuds as a biometric authentication system.