Thursday, August 30, 2018

Have you ordered yours??

The Physical Security Key That Keeps Google Employees From Getting Phished Is Now Available https://gizmodo.com/the-physical-security-key-that-keeps-google-employees-f-1828712018/amp

Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Read this parents

https://kotaku.com/a-straightforward-guide-to-parental-controls-on-game-co-1828157041

Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Now you can protect your fitness data

How to Lock Down Your Privacy in Your Fitness App https://vitals.lifehacker.com/how-to-lock-down-your-privacy-in-your-fitness-app-1827482948/amp

Saturday, July 7, 2018

Apps listening to your phone?

Northeastern Universtiy year long test of Android phones.

For one full year, they monitored a set of Android phones testing 17,000 apps, including Facebook and over 8,000 apps that sent information to Facebook.  This was to see if any of them used the microphone to collect what you were talking about and used that to send out the conversations.

The conclusion is that none of the apps send out audio data.

However, they did find that instead of sending out audio data, they do send out screen shots.  Over 9,000 apps of the 17,000 had permission to access the camera.  One of the big issues is that these apps used a service call Appsee to take screen shots and videos of your screen activity.

The best thing for a user to do is to review the apps on their phone and see what permission the apps have.  And when you look at the app you need to decide if it really needs access to your camera or microphone.  If it does not then deny the app access.


Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Recorded Future, the way to keep up to date

https://app.recordedfuture.com/live/sc/30oqSK2NKPKN?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=64067912&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--rCB3twA4J-1XLIrfTOZykwqkUi0zGUy1mjpJe9z3ykyKjv6DfZ-1-BKHCJksCRvKDXJbHDV2TIC_9y4J4a03lFkr6JA&_hsmi=64067912

Thursday, April 12, 2018

Beware of fake arrest warrant

https://www.onlinethreatalerts.com/article/2018/4/12/beware-of-us-federal-government-arrest-warrant-scam/

Outlook security issue

https://threatpost.com/outlook-bug-allowed-hackers-to-use-rtf-files-to-steal-windows-passwords/131169/