Security News

Tracking People By Smart Phone Accelerometers (Schneier on Security)
2015-06-08 11:09

Interesting research: "We Can Track You If You Take the Metro: Tracking Metro Riders Using Accelerometers on Smartphones": Abstract: Motion sensors (e.g., accelerometers) on smartphones have been...

Privacy Proponents Rally In Favor of Tracking Protection in Firefox (Threatpost)
2015-06-03 18:21

Privacy advocates are calling on Mozilla to better deploy Tracking Protection, a technology that offers more stringent privacy and speeds up page loads by blocking requests to tracking domains, in...

Week in review: Drone detection, crypto wars, and tracking wearable tech (Help Net Security)
2015-06-01 05:00

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news and articles: Sniffing and tracking wearable tech and smartphones Researchers at Context Information Security have demonstrated ho...

Sniffing and tracking wearable tech and smartphones (Help Net Security)
2015-05-25 07:09

Researchers at Context Information Security have demonstrated how easy it is to monitor and record Bluetooth Low Energy signals transmitted by many mobile phones, wearable devices and iBeacons, includ...

European Internet users urged to protect themselves against Facebook tracking (Help Net Security)
2015-05-18 10:23

In the wake of the revelations about Facebook's tracking of users who do not own a Facebook account, the Belgian Privacy Commission has issued a set of recommendations for both Facebook, website owner...