Why you should try listening to your cookies
Credit to Author: Alex Drozhzhin| Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 13:22:43 +0000
Listen to your cookies with the Listening Back browser extension to understand the real scale of Web tracking.
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MIT researchers say mobile voting app piloted in U.S. is rife with vulnerabilities
Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 13:30:00 -0800
Elections officials in numerous states have piloted various mobile voting applications as a method of expanding access to the polls, but MIT researchers say one of the more popular apps has security vulnerabilities that could open it up to tampering by bad actors.
The MIT analysis of the application, called Voatz, highlighted a number of weaknesses that could allow hackers to “alter, stop, or expose how an individual user has voted.”
Additionally, the researchers found that Voatz’s use of Palo Alto-based vendor Jumio for voter identification and verification poses potential privacy issues for users.
Cyber tips for safe online dating: How to avoid privacy gaffs, exploits, and scams
Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 16:36:45 +0000
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| We give advice on safe online dating, including steering clear of scams, buttoning up on privacy, and avoiding vulnerable apps. Categories: Tags: appsdatingonline datingopsecromancescams |
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Read moreTwitter settings: How to protect your account and data
Credit to Author: Leonid Grustniy| Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 15:22:32 +0000
We tell you which security and privacy settings will hold Twitter hackers and spammers at bay.
Read moreGoogle Maps: online interventions with offline ramifications
Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2020 19:24:50 +0000
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| We look at some of the ways people have gamed online mapping systems over the years. Categories: Tags: art vs techbusinessescarscrowdsourcingGooglegoogle mapsgpsgps locationlocationmap makermapsreviewstraffic appstraffic sensorsuser generated content |
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Read moreHorseDeal Riding on The Curveball!
Credit to Author: Jayesh kulkarni| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 06:17:49 +0000
It’s surprising to see how quickly attackers make use of new vulnerabilities in malware campaigns. Microsoft recently patched a very interesting vulnerability in their monthly Patch Tuesday update for January 2020. It’s a spoofing vulnerability in Windows CryptoAPI (Crypt32.dll) validation mechanism for Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) certificates. An attacker could…
Read moreIowa Caucus chaos likely to set back mobile voting
Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 12:51:00 -0800
A coding flaw and lack of sufficient testing of an application to record votes in Monday’s Iowa Democratic Presidential Caucus will likely hurt the advancement and uptake of online voting.
While there have been hundreds of tests of mobile and online voting platforms in recent years – mostly in small municipal or corporate shareholder and university student elections – online voting technology has yet to be tested for widespread use by the general public in a national election.
“This is one of the cases where we narrowly dodged a bullet,” said Jeremy Epstein, vice chair of the Association for Computing Machinery’s US Technology Policy Committee (USTPC). “The Iowa Democratic Party had planned to allow voters to vote in the caucus using their phones; if this sort of meltdown had happened with actual votes, it would have been an actual disaster. In this case, it’s just delayed results and egg on the face of the people who built and purchased the technology.”
Washington Privacy Act welcomed by corporate and nonprofit actors
Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 16:35:25 +0000
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| The Washington Privacy Act would extend new data rights of access, correction, and deletion to Washington residents, with new rules on facial recognition. Categories: Tags: 2019 Washington Privacy Act2020 Washington Privacy ActCalifornia Consumer Privacy ActCCPAConsumer Reportsdata portabilitydata privacy lawdata privacy lawsdata privacy legislationfacial recognitionFuture of Privacy ForumgdprGeneral Data Protection Regulationmicrosoftpersonal dataright to accessright to correctright to deleteSenator Reuven Carlylesensitive dataWashington Privacy ActWashington Privacy Act 2019Washington Privacy Act 2020WPA |
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