Part 1 Discovering that your Bluetooth car battery monitor is siphoning up your location data
Doubleagent.net · 2023-07-24 12 min Hello Hacker News, thanks for visiting!A Bluetooth enabled battery monitor that records car battery voltages. The hardware requires a smartphone for pairing The product collects GPS co-ordinates, cell phone tower data and nearby Wifi beacons Location data is sent over the Intern

Passkey: cos'è e come funziona
Smartworld.it · 2023-05-04 13 min Per diversi motivi, le password rappresentano l'anello debole per la sicurezza di un account, e i giganti del web hanno istituito un'alleanza, chiamata FIDO, per promuovere soluzioni più efficaci.Le passkey sono una risposta a questo problema, una soluzione che permette di util

Privacy Friendly Apps improved privacy protection on the smartphone
Secuso.aifb.kit.edu · 2023-03-24 4 min We use our smartphone for private conversations, store our contacts and organise our meetings with it. The access to all this sensitive data is handled with the so-called permissions. It means, for example, that each app that requires the smartphone camera needs to get the corres

Beware rogue 2FA apps in App Store and Google Play – don’t get hacked!
Nakedsecurity.sophos.com · 2023-02-27 12 min by Thanks to Tommy Mysk and Talal Haj Bakry of @mysk_co for the impetus and information behind this article. The duo describe themselves as “two iOS developers and occasional security researchers on two continents.” In other words, although cybersecurity isn’t their core b

Google to remove all VPN ad blockers that don’t comply
Community.blokada.org · 2022-11-04 < 1 min Since we shared our previous article about “Google cracking down on VPN adblockers”, we’ve been closely following the situation of the Google Play Policy changes and the company has now entered into the next phase in their plan to remove VPN based ad blockers. On Nove

KIT SECUSO Forschung Ergebnisse
Secuso.aifb.kit.edu · 2022-07-01 3 min Wir nutzen unser Smartphone für private Gespräche, ob in Text, Wort oder Bild, speichern unsere Kontakte und organisieren unsere Termine damit. Der Zugriff auf all diese sensiblen Daten wird durch sogenannte Berechtigungen geregelt. Das bedeutet beispielsweise, dass jede Ap

Lookout Uncovers Android Spyware Deployed in Kazakhstan
Lookout.com · 2022-06-24 13 min Lookout Threat Lab researchers have uncovered enterprise-grade Android surveillanceware used by the government of Kazakhstan within its borders. While we’ve been following this threat for a while using Lookout Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) these latest samples were det

Exodus Privacy: scopri cosa contengono le tue app! Le Alternative
Lealternative.net · 2022-02-25 2 min Articolo aggiornato il: 24 Febbraio, 2022 Se ti piace il nostro lavoro da oggi puoi anche donare grazie! Ne abbiamo parlato spesso di Exodus Privacy all’interno dei nostri articoli. Ma è un progetto talmente importante ed interessante che vogliamo dargli maggiore spazio con u