Security News
Unlike its browser competitors, Firefox will soon start blocking tracking cookies by default in the name of consumer privacy.
Bypassing permission protection on network info Security researchers have found a way to sniff Android system broadcasts to expose Wi-Fi connection information to attackers.…
A vulnerability in the Android operating system can be used to track users without their knowledge.
Tech Giant Clarifies: Pausing 'Location History' Alone Won't Stop All TrackingA lawsuit accuses Google of "the surreptitious location tracking of millions of mobile phone users." The legal action...
After a report said Google tracks users even when they opt out, the company is under fire from activists and has been slapped with a lawsuit.
Google was in the news last week for a misleading claim that "with Location History off, the places you go are no longer stored," which is not true. Now, the search engine giant is once again in...
Researchers have identified a number of online user tracking techniques that can’t be blocked by browsers’ built-in anti-tracking defenses and existing anti-tracking and ad-blocking extensions....
Internet boxes blab coordinates on login pages Black Hat If you want to avoid the cops, or watch deliveries and call-outs by trucks and another vehicles in real-time, well, there's potentially not...
For 2 years, welfare investigators used a huge database of automated license plate reader images to sniff out fraud, without audit or policy.
Web Security says there's nothing nefarious to its URL collection A security plug-in for the Firefox browser is under fire after users discovered it was collecting and uploading their online activity.…