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How to stay smart about Android app permissions

July 20, 2022 admin Android, Data Privacy, google, Mobile Apps, privacy, Security

Credit to Author: JR Raphael| Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 03:00:00 -0700

When it comes to Android and privacy, we’re accustomed to seeing things move in a certain direction.

It’s simple, really: With each new Android version, it usually gets easier to manage your privacy and understand how your information is being used. And we typically get more front-facing tools and under-the-hood improvements that allow us to handle that stuff intelligently. Obviously, right?

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Google to delete location data of trips to abortion clinics

July 6, 2022 admin abortion, google, hipaa, period-tracking app, privacy, roe v. wade

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2022 13:39:11 +0000

Google upped it privacy efforts by deleting location history of visits to abortion clinics.

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FCC commissioner wants Apple, Google to remove TikTok from App Stores

June 29, 2022 admin apple, google, Mobile, Mobile Apps, Security, small and medium business

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2022 05:34:00 -0700

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr has written to Apple and Google to request that both companies remove the incredibly popular TikTok app from their stores, citing a threat to national security.

Is your data going TikTok?

Carr warns the app collects huge quantities of data and cited a recent report that claimed the company has accessed sensitive data collected from Americans. He argues that TikTok’s, “pattern of conduct and misrepresentations regarding the unfettered access that persons in Beijing have to sensitive U.S. data…puts it out of compliance,” with App Store security and privacy policies.

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Hermit spyware is deployed with the help of a victim’s ISP

June 29, 2022 admin Android, apple, c2, command and control, commercial spyware, cve-2018-4344, cve-2019-8605, cve-2020-3837, cve-2020-9907, cve-2021-30883, cve-2021-30983, google, hermit, hermit spyware, iOS, modular spyware, Pegasus, privacy, rcs labs, reports, spyware, threat analysis group

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2022 10:03:54 +0000

A new commercial spyware for governments, called Hermit, has spotted in the wild. It affects iOS and all Android versions.

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Independent Krebs

The Link Between AWM Proxy & the Glupteba Botnet

June 28, 2022 admin A Little Sunshine, alureon, awm proxy, Breadcrumbs, constella intelligence, dennstr, dmitry starovikov, domaintools, ESET, glupteba botnet, google, kaspersky lab, lycefer, meris, Ne'er-Do-Well News, pay-per-install, riley kilmer, rootkit, rsocks botnet, spur.us, tdl-4, tdss, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 18:33:31 +0000

On December 7, 2021, Google announced it had sued two Russian men allegedly responsible for operating the Glupteba botnet, a global malware menace that has infected millions of computers over the past decade. That same day, AWM Proxy — a 14-year-old anonymity service that rents hacked PCs to cybercriminals — suddenly went offline. Security experts had long seen a link between Glupteba and AWM Proxy, but new research shows AWM Proxy’s founder is one of the men being sued by Google.

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Brave Search wants to replace Google’s biased search results with yours

June 27, 2022 admin Bing, brave ads, Brave browser, brave search, brave search features, brave software, brendan eich, brian bondy, discussions, goggles, google, privacy, privacy browser

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 19:23:53 +0000

Brave Search, the privacy search engine you may not have heard of, is a year old and growing fast.

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ComputerWorld Independent

Italian spyware firm is hacking into iOS and Android devices, Google says

June 24, 2022 admin android security, apple, google, ios security

Credit to Author: Shweta Sharma| Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2022 08:51:00 -0700

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has identified Italian vendor RCS Lab as a spyware offender, developing tools that are being used to exploit zero-day vulnerabilities to effect attacks on iOS and Android mobile users in Italy and Kazakhstan.

According to a Google blog post on Thursday, RCS Lab uses a combination of tactics, including atypical drive-by downloads as initial infection vectors. The company has developed tools to spy on the private data of the targeted devices, the post said.

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Update now! Microsoft patches Follina, and many other security updates

June 15, 2022 admin adobe, atlassian, Citrix, confluence, cve-2022-26397, cve-2022-30136, cve-2022-30139, cve-2022-30163, cve-2022-30190, drupal, Exploits and vulnerabilities, follina, gitlab, google, Hyper-V, ldap, msdt, nfs, Patch Tuesday, SAP, synlapse

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2022 13:17:05 +0000

Patch Tuesday for June 2022 brought a fix for Follina and many other security vulnerabilities. Time to figure out what needs to be prioritized.

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