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Kids’ smartwatch security tracker can be hacked by anyone

November 28, 2019 0 Comments av-test.org, children, gps, Internet of Things, IoT, kids, Law & order, location data, Privacy, security threats, sma m2 smartwatch, smart watch, vulnerability

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 11:32:46 +0000

For researchers at testing outfit AV-Test, the SMA M2 kids’ smartwatch is just the tip of an iceberg of terrible security.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/OslMbiNGOKg” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook, Twitter profiles slurped by mobile apps using malicious SDKs

November 27, 2019 0 Comments advertising, Android, data loss, data slurping, facebook, iOS, Marketing, mobiburn, Mobile, mobile marketing, one audience, oneaudience, Privacy, profile slurping, profiles, rogue sdks, sdk, sdks, security threats, Social networks, third party apps, twitter

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 12:49:19 +0000

Hundreds of users gave permission to these third-party apps to access their social media accounts, but the apps got more handsy than that.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/TEWLcroc9-8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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EU raises eyebrows at possible US encryption ban

November 27, 2019 0 Comments Cryptography, encryption, EU, eu-us privacy shield, european commission, GDPR, Government security, Privacy, us encryption ban, usa

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 12:26:33 +0000

EU officials have warned that they may not take kindly to a US encryption ban or insertion of crypto backdoor technology.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/tEJpvShW5zc” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Would ‘Medicare for All’ help secure health data?

November 26, 2019 0 Comments adam kujawa, amca, american medical collection agency, blue cross blue shield, breaches, cms, Cybercrime, department of health and human services, dominion national, Electronic Frontier Foundation, gao, Government, government accountability office, healthcare, healthcare.gov, heatlhcare, hhs, insurance, interoperability, malwarebytes, malwarebytes labs, medicare for all, online privacy act of 2019, os inc, prema blue cross, Privacy, security world, solara medical supplies, spectrum health lakeland, third-party services, wolverine solutions group

Credit to Author: Adam Kujawa| Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 20:30:10 +0000

Beyond the usual arguments on this subject, we wanted to ask the question: Are there any security risks we need to be worried about if the United States were to switch to ‘Healthcare for All’ policies?

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Tags: adam kujawa AMCA American Medical Collection Agency Blue Cross Blue Shield breaches CMS cybercrime Department of Health and Human Services Dominion National Electronic Frontier Foundation GAO Government Accountability Office healthcare healthcare.gov Heatlhcare HHS insurance interoperability Malwarebytes malwarebytes labs Medicare for all Online Privacy Act of 2019 OS Inc Prema Blue Cross Solara Medical Supplies Spectrum Health Lakeland third-party services Wolverine Solutions Group

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Parents say creep hacked their baby monitor to tell toddler they ‘love’ her

November 26, 2019 0 Comments baby monitor, baby monitors, fredi, IoT, iot security, Privacy, security threats, taococo, unsecure wifi

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 12:02:39 +0000

The Taococo FREDI baby monitor has repeatedly been criticized for being easy to hack.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/lcvDFj3ym4E” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Court says suspect can’t be forced to reveal 64-character password

November 26, 2019 0 Comments child abuse, child abuse imagery, child porn, commonwealth v. davis, court decision, Cryptography, emule, fifth amendment, forced device unlock, forced unlock, forced unlocking, foregone conclusion, joseph davis, Law & order, Mobile, passwords, porn, Privacy

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 11:30:16 +0000

We have to protect the constitutional rights of the innocent, and that can mean shielding guilty-as-hell child abusers, the court said.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/tytTDlPZrB0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee publishes plan to save the web from ‘digital dystopia’

November 26, 2019 0 Comments contract for the web, facebook, Google, Internet, Microsoft, Privacy, sir tim berners-lee, twitter, world wide web

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 10:27:10 +0000

Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has proposed a ‘Contract for the Web’ to rescue it from a headlong plunge into a moral abyss.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/ei841Vw1q5s” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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“Data as property” promises fix for privacy problems, but could deepen inequality

November 25, 2019 0 Comments andrew yang, dashboard act, data as property, data as property rights, data property, data property model, data property rights, jaron lanier, oregon, pay-for-privacy, Privacy, senate bill 703, who owns the world

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 16:00:00 +0000

Data property supporters in the US argue that, through data payments, Americans could rebalance the relationship they have with the technology industry, giving them more control over their data privacy and putting some extra money in their pockets. But the cost to privacy, some say, is too high.

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Ad-blocking companies block ‘unblockable’ tracker

November 25, 2019 0 Comments ad blocking, Adblocker, chrome, chromium, cname, firefox, online privacy, Privacy, trackers, Web Browsers

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 12:45:02 +0000

Ad-blockers have figured out a way to block the unblockable – a pernicious tracker technique that hides advertising networks in plain sight.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/GELDo4RpiU8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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