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LegalMobile security company SMobile has looked into the potential privacy and security issues in more than 48,000 apps in the Android Market. The company’s findings are alarming for Android owners, since approximately 20% of Android apps request permission to access private or sensitive information. SMobile’s findings shed new light on Apple’s tight grip over its [...]
US-States ally against Google’s data collection madness.
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Apple Hits Users With Behavioral Ads – Changes privacy policy, offers new opt-out option
Changes privacy policy, offers new opt-out option 11:52AM Tuesday Jun 22 2010 by Karl Bode Tipped by Z80A Back in May we noted how there’s a lot of money to be made by carriers in selling your personal location data — and they’re only just starting to figure out how to cash in on it. [...]
iPhone OS 3.1 has more than 60 vulnerabilities
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Web Browsers Leave ‘Fingerprints’ Behind as You Surf the Net
EFF Research Shows More Than 8 in 10 Browsers Have Unique, Trackable Signatures. San Francisco – New research by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has found that an overwhelming majority of web browsers have unique signatures — creating identifiable “fingerprints” that could be used to track you as you surf the Internet. The findings were [...]
Google Apologizes for Snaring Wi-Fi Data
Google has issued an apology for inadvertently collecting the contents of users’ Web transmissions as part of its Street View project, which has come under fire from European data-collection authorities alarmed at the privacy implications of the effort. To capture a curbside view of an ever-expanding number of world cities, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has been [...]
Google Android – spying at your cell phone
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McAfee Stinger Removes Hard-to-Tackle Malware and Pesky Fake-Alert Programs – McAfee Labs Stinger – Lifehacker
Windows only: McAfee Stinger banishes malware from your Windows PC, including those hard-to-get fake alert programs and their variants. The last thing anyone needs is malware masquerading as helpful. Fake alert programs are always nasty little buggers to remove. We recently examined how to remove XP AntiSpyware, one such piece of malware, by going into [...]
Most Famous Words of Spammers – Internet – krone.at
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The Definitive Guide to Keeping Your PC Up to Date – Updates – Lifehacker
Keeping your computer—including its operating system and all the installed third-party software—up to date is extremely important, but it needn’t be a hassle or inconvenience. Here’s a look at three tools you can use regularly to keep your system current. The Windows operating system and all the software we use on it are constantly evolving, [...]
Web browser choice matters – Mozilla Links
By Percy Cabello Our lives are full of choices. Where to eat? What to read? Who to spend time with? The choices we make determine the quality of our life, and how we see the world. So many of these choices we take quite seriously, weighing the consequences, thinking about the implications, and choosing carefully [...]
French government also warns Internet Explorer users – Mozilla Links
Just like the German government did last week, the French government via the National Information Systems Security Agency (Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d’information) has also issued an alert, recommending users to switch to another web browser regarding an Internet Explorer’s vulnerability that was exploited to hack Google servers in China. Here’s a [...]
IE: Update for critical vulnerability announced – Browsers – derStandard.at> Web
Microsoft will offer an “out-of-cycle” security update – but it first had to be well balanced “Regrettably, we must note that one of our products has been used for criminal activities. Therefore we cooperate with Google, other partners in the software industry and international agencies to educate the facts, ” said Microsoft in a press [...]
German Government: Stop Using Internet Explorer
674ShareemailshareIn a statement issued today, the German Federal Office for Security in Information Technology known as BSI recommends that all Internet Explorer users switch to an alternative browser. They may resume using Explorer after a fix is issued by Microsoft for a critical vulnerability that has been implicated in the Chinese cyberattack against Google.If you [...]
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