Facebook controversies come and go, but a recent issue involving the surveillance and transcription of users’ conversations seems particularly troubling to government officials, privacy watchdogs, and users. Here are answers to 10 questions you may hav…
Cybersecurity researchers discovered an unprotected and unencrypted database containing over 161 million records belonging to movie ticket subscription service MoviePass. TechCrunch reported that many of the records pertained to daily service operation…
Many consumers are aware of cookies that track web activity, and their use is fairly well-regulated. But online fingerprinting (also called device fingerprinting) is not as well understood. We believe mainstream media is vastly underestimating how prev…
I’ve often written here about how companies exploit our tendency to accept lax security defaults. People don’t have time to read thousands of pages of terms of service or bother to ask why a mobile game needs to know their ID and location. (It’s usuall…
Mac users have often thought of their computers as a safe haven from many of the security threats that confront Windows users. This summer’s Zoom video conferencing vulnerability and the Mac ransomware threats of 2016-2017 show that is no longer true.&…
Mac users have often thought of their computers as a safe haven from many of the security threats that confront Windows users. This summer’s Zoom video conferencing vulnerability and the Mac ransomware threats of 2016-2017 show that is no longer true.&…
Twenty years ago, Kevin Ashton sat in his cubicle at Procter & Gamble’s research and development offices in Egham, Surrey, just 17 miles from the London Science Museum now featuring cybersecurity and tech history in the exhibit Top Secret. On the s…
During a routine web-mapping project, cybersecurity researchers found that large chunks of a massive database belonging to biometric security platform BioStar 2 were unencrypted and unsecured. Dark Reading reported that the researchers discovered …
Many of us are online throughout the day, going from device to device. We might wake up with our iPhone, switch to an Android tablet, then a Windows laptop for work.
If you didn’t go to the Black Hat or DEF CON cybersecurity conferences last week in Las Vegas, we’ve got a quick summary of some of the best stories, presentations, social media, and just plain weirdness.