Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 20:15:22 +0000
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| Last week, the FTC announced its settlement with Google over YouTube’s COPPA violations, including requirements for better protecting children’s data. But is it enough? Categories: |
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 09:32:00 -0700
Two months ago, the July Win7 security-only patch was found to install telemetry software, triggered by newly installed scheduled tasks called ProgramDataUpdater, Microsoft Compatibility Appraiser, and AitAgent. As best I can tell, Microsoft never admitted that its security-only patch dropped a telemetry component.
The August security-only update didn’t include that bit of snooping, so it looked like the July snooping was a one-off aberration.
Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 10:24:10 +0000
Following hot on Mozilla’s trail, Google officially announced its own DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) experiment in Chrome this week.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/MXZMT9v3Sj8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 10:24:10 +0000
Following hot on Mozilla’s trail, Google officially announced its own DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) experiment in Chrome this week.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/MXZMT9v3Sj8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 10:27:15 +0000
A security researcher uncovered a flaw in Telegram’s ‘unsend message’ feature.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/JlTC9zsAbJY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 10:16:00 +0000
The OS updates may not reflect your Facebook app setting, but Facebook says it will respect whatever users’ most restrictive settings are.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/6rvcy97aMoE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
Read moreCredit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 16:41:45 +0000
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| Mobile VPN apps are one of the best tools for protecting user privacy. Unfortunately, a notable number of are deemed unsafe. Read on to find out how to assess the best mobile VPN for you. Categories: Tags: AndroidanonymityApple App Storeblack mirrorCDTcentennialsCommonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganizationCSIRODark WebDNS hijackingDNS leakemerging marketsencryptionfake avfreefree VPNGlobal Web IndexGlobalWebIndexGoogle Play StoreGuideline 5.4Hotspot ShieldHotspot Shield complaintInnet VPNiOSIPv6 leakKilpVipLuminatimalvertisingmillenialsmobile VPN appsmotivations for VPN usageMyMobileSecurenetflixonion browserprivacyQueen Mary University of Londonrisk-freeRob MardisaluroguewareSapienza University of RomeSecnet VPNSimon MiglianoTheBestVPNtop 20 VPN appsTop10VPNtransparencyUC BerkeleyUniversity of South Walesvirtual private networksvpn |
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Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 10:51:10 +0000
Mozilla is about to turn on-by-default an oft-overlooked privacy feature in Firefox.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/luV2NWDhrqw” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 10:50:48 +0000
It’s a first: The government has never demanded personal data of a single app’s users from Apple & Google.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/SKydWWr9YsM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2019 10:24:53 +0000
A senior executive at private browser company Brave has accused Google of using a workaround that lets it identify users to ad networks.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/lKGgZf-nQcM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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