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![Majority of Android Apps Contain Embedded User-Tracking: Report](/static/build/img/news/alt/cost-stats-small.jpg)
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](/static/build/img/news/alt/ransomware-statistics-small.jpg)
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](/static/build/img/news/alt/managed-security-small.jpg)
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](/static/build/img/news/alt/cybersecurity-attacker-small.jpg)
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](/static/build/img/news/alt/data-statistics-small.jpg)
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](/static/build/img/news/alt/password-statistics-small.jpg)
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](/static/build/img/news/alt/Data-Cybersecurity-Predictions-2-small.jpg)
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](/static/build/img/news/alt/IoT-Cybersecurity-Predictions-2-small.jpg)
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...
![Creepy Or Cool? Twitter Is Tracking Where You've Been, What You Like And Is Telling Advertisers (Forbes)](/static/build/img/news/alt/antivirus-stats-small.jpg)
![Ultrasonic Beacons Are Tracking Your Every Movement (Threatpost)](/static/build/img/news/alt/IoT-Cybersecurity-Predictions-2-small.jpg)
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.