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For many, Google is the backbone of their Internet experience. The company offers so many varied services, from the ubiquitous search and Gmail, operating systems and browser, to services such as YouTube and ads. Lots of ads. And the more you use Google services, the more Google knows about you, your browsing habits, and your […] More
A new language framework designed to breach fragmentation gaps between cybersecurity tools has been released to the open source community. Launched by the Open Cybersecurity Alliance (OCA), a consortium of cybersecurity vendors including IBM, Crowdstrike, and McAfee, on Monday, the OCA said that OpenDXL Ontology is the “first open source language for connecting cybersecurity tools […] More
A security vulnerability in LTE can be exploited to sign up for subscriptions or paid website services at someone else’s expense, new research suggests. According to researchers from Ruhr-Universität Bochum, the flaw exists in the 4G mobile communication standard and permits smartphone user impersonation, which could allow attackers to “start a subscription at the expense […] More
Slickwraps has revealed a data breach impacting over 850,000 user accounts, admitting its mistake in permitting customer records to become public. Slickwraps is an online store that offers skins for a variety of smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles, and laptops. Last week, the company said in a blog post that on February 21, Slickwraps discovered that […] More
Easily confused? Amazon No one likes it when a stranger butts into their conversation. Especially when they interrupt with some astonishing non-sequitur. You’re watching TV and chatting about the painfully demanding couple on House Hunters International when a distant voice pipes up: “The circumference of the Earth is 24,901 miles.” It’s Apple’s Siri, of course. […] More
For more than a decade now, security experts have had discussions about what’s the best way of choosing passwords for online accounts. There’s one camp that argues for password complexity by adding numbers, uppercase letters, and special characters, and then there’s the other camp, arguing for password length by making passwords longer. This week, in […] More
Image: Google Google has announced this week plans to crack down on Android apps that abuse the OS permissions system and request access to user geo-location data when the app is not in use. Starting with May, the OS maker plans to show warnings in the Play Store backend to all Android app developers about […] More
Where do the pictures go? Getty Images/iStockphoto × istock-962263142.jpg Like you, I’m a law-abiding citizen. Well, most laws that I can abide by, anyway. (That was a joke, officer. Honest.) My emotions, though, still aren’t aligned with former Google chairman Eric Schmidt’s. It was he who insisted that “if you have something you don’t want […] More
