Security News

Hundreds of GPS Location Tracking Services Leaving User Data Open to Hackers
2018-01-04 11:48

Security researchers have unearthed multiple vulnerabilities in hundreds of GPS services that could enable attackers to expose a whole host of sensitive data on millions of online location...

Many GPS Tracking Services Expose User Location, Other Data
2018-01-02 21:10

Researchers discovered that many online services designed for managing location tracking devices are affected by vulnerabilities that expose potentially sensitive information. Fitness, child, pet...

Tracking People Without GPS
2017-12-15 12:18

Interesting research: The trick in accurately tracking a person with this method is finding out what kind of activity they're performing. Whether they're walking, driving a car, or riding in a...

Police vs Privacy: US Supreme Court Looks at Cell Phone Tracking
2017-11-30 20:27

Where do we go? Who do we talk to? What do we read about? Our mobile phones are troves of personal, private information, and the US Supreme Court weighed Wednesday how easily police should be able...

Privacy Rights in Balance as Supreme Court Hears Cellphone Tracking Case
2017-11-29 04:22

Privacy rights in the digital age face a crucial test Wednesday when the Supreme Court hears a case over police use of a person's location data from cellphone towers. read more

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...