Apps That Are Spying on Your Location
January 11 2025404 Media and Wired are reporting on all the apps that are spying on your location, based on a hack of the location data company Gravy Analytics:
The thousands...
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From the Washington Post: The sanctions target Beijing Integrity Technology Group, which U.S. officials say employed workers responsible for the Flax Typhoon attacks which compromised devices including routers and internet-enabled...
Read morePrivacy of Photos.app’s Enhanced Visual Search
January 6 2025Initial speculation about a new Apple feature.
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Anniversary Post
January 4 2025I made my first squid post nineteen years ago this week. Between then and now, I posted something about squid every week (with maybe only a few exceptions). There...
Read moreGoogle Is Allowing Device Fingerprinting
January 3 2025Lukasz Olejnik writes about device fingerprinting, and why Google’s policy change to allow it in 2025 is a major privacy setback. EDITED TO ADD (1/12): Shashdot thread.
Read moreGift Card Fraud
December 31 2024It’s becoming an organized crime tactic:
Card draining is when criminals remove gift cards from a store display, open them in a separate location, and either record the card...
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Salt Typhoon’s Reach Continues to Grow
December 30 2024The US government has identified a ninth telecom that was successfully hacked by Salt Typhoon.
Read moreCasino Players Using Hidden Cameras for Cheating
December 27 2024The basic strategy is to place a device with a hidden camera in a position to capture normally hidden card values, which are interpreted by an accomplice off-site and...
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