Security News

TeenSafe Tracking App Exposes Thousands of Private Records
2018-05-21 19:30

Records for a mobile app that parents can use to monitor what their kids are doing online has been exposed in the latest Amazon Web Services cloud misconfiguration.

Real-Time Mobile Phone Location Tracking: Questions Mount
2018-05-18 18:18

After Securus Technologies Gets Hacked, LocationSmart Fixes Data-Exposing FlawFollowing reports about U.S. companies that enable government and other users to access real-time tracking information...

Phone tracking service LocationSmart exposed API, allowing anyone to track you
2018-05-18 12:46

An unsecured API used in a product demo can be exploited by attackers to track phone locations without the consent of end users.

LocationDumb: phone tracker foul-up exposes world+dog to tracking
2018-05-18 00:03

Securus wasted its money: the data was just sitting there The parade of bad privacy news this week has managed to get even worse, as one of the companies associated with the selling of phone...

Tracking Firm LocationSmart Leaked Location Data for Customers of All Major U.S. Mobile Carriers in Real Time Via Its Web Site
2018-05-17 18:29

LocationSmart, a U.S. based company that acts as an aggregator of real-time data about the precise location of mobile phone devices, has been leaking this information to anyone via a buggy...

Police phone tracking firm hacked, passwords leaked thanks to weak hashing
2018-05-17 14:52

Securus, which tracks phones for police, was using the MD5 algorithm to hash stored passwords.

Facebook: 3 reasons we’re tracking non-users
2018-04-18 11:31

It's just how the internet works, Facebook said.

Facebook Admits to Tracking Non-Users Across the Internet
2018-04-17 18:38

Facebook this week confirmed that it indeed knows when users access websites and apps that use Facebook services, even if they don’t have an account on the social network. read more

Tracking protection in Firefox for iOS now on by default – why this matters
2018-04-16 10:10

Turning it on by default might sound like a mere tweak, but its the first version of the browser to do this without the user having to consciously turn it on.

Apple Addresses HSTS User Tracking in WebKit
2018-03-20 15:48

Apple has added new protections to the WebKit framework to prevent possible abuse of the HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) security standard to track users. HSTS offers a mechanism through...