Security News

Majority of Android Apps Contain Embedded User-Tracking: Report
2017-11-28 15:34

Seventy-five percent of 300 Android apps tested by Exodus Privacy and analyzed by the Yale Privacy Lab contain embedded trackers, including Uber, Tinder, Skype, Twitter, Spotify and Snapchat. The...

Google's Bug-Tracking Database Had a Bad Bug
2017-10-31 12:48

Google Pays $15,600 Reward, Fixes Bug Tracker In an HourIt's a score to find a severe software vulnerability in a widely used Google product. But finding information on all unpatched software...

Firefox 58 to Block Canvas Browser Fingerprinting By Default to Stop Online Tracking
2017-10-31 03:36

Do you know? Thousands of websites use HTML5 Canvas—a method supported by all major browsers that allow websites to dynamically draw graphics on web pages—to track and potentially identify users...

Microsoft Kept Secret That Its Bug-Tracking Database Was Hacked In 2013
2017-10-17 04:33

It was not just Yahoo among "Fortune 500" companies who tried to keep a major data breach incident secret. Reportedly, Microsoft had also suffered a data breach four and a half years ago (in...

Week in review: Email tracking, DNS exfiltration, and secure coding in Java
2017-10-09 01:10

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Leaving employees to manage their own password security is a mistake Despite the clear and present danger that weak...

The privacy implications of email tracking
2017-10-05 13:50

Emails are a widely used means for third parties to tie your email address to your activities across the web, Princeton University researchers have discovered. The extent of email tracking Email...

E-Mail Tracking
2017-10-03 11:45

Interesting survey paper: on the privacy implications of e-mail tracking: Abstract: We show that the simple act of viewing emails contains privacy pitfalls for the unwary. We assembled a corpus of...

Passwords For 500,000 Car Tracking Devices Leaked Online
2017-09-22 09:33

Another day, another news about a data breach, though this is something disconcerting. Login credentials of more than half a million records belonging to vehicle tracking device company SVR...

Ultrasonic Beacons Are Tracking Your Every Movement (Threatpost)
2017-05-05 17:32

More than 200 Android mobile applications listen surreptitiously for ultrasonic beacons embedded in audio that are used to track users and serve them with targeted advertising.