Tag Archives: security
New technologies raise serious doubts on privacy & security | Security Affairs
http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/10183/security/new-technologies-raise-serious-doubts-on-privacy-security.html
Skype gave data on a teen WikiLeaks supporter to a private company without a warrant: report.
Skype should be assumed to be insecure. http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/11/09/skype_gave_data_on_a_teen_wikileaks_supporter_to_a_private_company_without.html
NFC Credit Cards, are they really secure?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/07/27/hacker-demos-android-app-that-can-read-and-use-a-credit-card-thats-still-in-your-wallet/
GPS vulnerability could allow hackers to track, take over smartphones
This looks like fun :/ A GPS weakness could allow hackers to remotely track smartphone users, or even completely take over mobile devices, University of Luxembourg researcher Ralf-Phillip Weinmann reported last night at Black Hat. Instead of directly using GPS satellites, … Continue reading
Twitter & A false sense of security
Twitter has this interesting feature called ‘protected tweets’. From Twitter: When you protect your Tweets, the following restrictions are put in place: People will have to request to follow you and each follow request will need approval. Protected Tweets will … Continue reading