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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

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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

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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/

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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

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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

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