Security News

Hey, what's Mandarin for 'WTF is going on?' Nokia phones caught spewing device IDs to China, software blunder blamed
2019-03-22 06:56

Maker insists the privacy cock-up has been fixed, mostly An undisclosed number of Nokia 7 Plus smartphones have been caught sending their identification numbers to a domain owned by a Chinese...

Cisco Patches High-Severity Flaws in IP Phones
2019-03-21 12:31

The most serious vulnerabilities in Cisco's 8800 Series IP Phones could allow unauthenticated, remote attackers to conduct a cross-site request forgery attack or write arbitrary files to the filesystem.

Avoid these Google Play Store apps that promise to update your Android phone
2019-03-18 15:15

Apps in the Google Play Store purport to upgrade your phone to Android 9.0 Pie, but an app cannot perform that task.

Why Phone Numbers Stink As Identity Proof
2019-03-17 23:25

Phone numbers stink for security and authentication. They stink because most of us have so much invested in these digits that they've become de facto identities. At the same time, when you lose...

G Suite Admins Can Now Disable Phone 2-SV
2019-03-15 13:35

Google is making G Suite accounts more secure by allowing administrators to remove phone-based 2-step verification (2-SV) from the available multi-factor verification options. read more

Just Android things: 150m phones, gadgets installed adware-ridden mobe simulator games
2019-03-13 19:33

Devs may have been duped into using dodgy SDK Android adware has managed to find its way into as many as 150 million devices – after it was stashed inside a large number of those bizarre viral...

NSA might shut down phone snooping program, whatever that means
2019-03-07 16:44

We've heard this tale before. This time, it was mentioned by a congressional aide. Also, the NSA released Ghidra, a free reverse-engineering tool.

NSA may kill off mass phone spying program Snowden exposed, says Congressional staffer
2019-03-05 23:25

But really it's just the start of the latest surveillance chess game Special report The NSA may kill off a controversial mass surveillance program of Americans that was exposed by Edward Snowden,...

Facebook criticised for misuse of phone numbers provided for security
2019-03-05 22:23

Facebook admits it's using numbers supplied for 2FA for more than security, and you can't turn it off.

You. Shall. Not. Pass... word: Soon, you may be logging into websites using your phone, face, fingerprint or token
2019-03-05 21:37

Just don't lose your hardware keys RSA At 2004's RSA Conference, then Microsoft chairman Bill Gates predicted the death of the password because passwords have problems and people are bad at...