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11/22/2017

Apps are using ad-tracking audio signals that your phone can hear, but you can't.

11/22/2017

Now your smartphone apps may be betraying you and violating your privacy without you being aware of it at all.

Apps are using ad-tracking audio signals that your phone can hear, but you can't.

10/27/2017

The Equifax disaster gets worse and worse. Why the company is not just shut down baffles me.

Last year, a security researcher alerted Equifax that anyone could have stolen the personal data of all Americans. The company failed to heed the warning.

10/21/2017

This could be one of the worst malware's ever to hit Android.

10/21/2017

Yet another reason to avoid the Flash Player or anything like it.

This could be one of the worst malware's ever to hit Android.

10/06/2017

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09/12/2017

If you have a mobile device (phone, tablet, etc.) then chances are high that it has the ability to use Bluetooth. You should be aware of this newly discovered security vulnerability that probably applies to you.

It's thought to be the most widescale set of vulnerabilities based on the number of devices affected, hitting Windows desktops, Android devices, older iPhones and iPads, and smart devices.

08/31/2017

As many as 23 million emails containing Locky ransomware were sent in 24 hours, say researchers.

08/17/2017

For those of you using the Chrome browser you should be aware that some fairly common Chrome extensions have been hacked. If you are using one of these you should either disable or, even better, remove it.

Proofpoint research has found that certain Chrome extensions have been taken over in order to spread malicious ads and steal money from users.

07/12/2017

I. Introduction

05/31/2017

Veteran espionage researcher Jon DiMaggio was hot on the trail three months ago of what on the face of it looked like a menacing new industrial espionage attack by Russian cyber spies.

05/17/2017

Learned about some really amazing, and somewhat scary, audio and video tech. It's important to be aware that such things are now possible so that you have at least a chance of being able to protect yourself better.

https://mathbabe.org/2016/12/23/creepy-tech-that-will-turbocharge-fake-news/

My buddy Josh Vekhter is visiting from his Ph.D. program in computer science and told me about a couple of incredibly creepy technological advances that will soon make our previous experience of fa…