Tag: smartphone

July 21, 2021

The past decade has witnessed scandal after scandal over private images maliciously or accidentally made public. A study from computer scientists at Columbia Engineering reveals what may be the first way to encrypt personal images on popular cloud photo services, […]

February 26, 2020

Smartphone users have once again been urged to ensure they keep their devices protected after a huge rise in mobile threats last year. New research from Kaspersky found that attacks targeting personal data on mobile devices saw a significant increase […]

January 9, 2020

Pre-installed malware on Android phones is a growing menace – so much that on Wednesday this week, Privacy International and around 50 other international NGOs (including ACLU, EFF, Amnesty and the TOR project) sent an open letter to Google demanding […]

April 12, 2019

The most successful companies of our time are those who’ve mastered user data – collecting it, analyzing it and profiting from it – typically at the expense of user privacy. The Internet of things (IoT) has given tech companies, advertisers, […]

January 12, 2019

Hundreds of millions of people use a smartphone daily, if not hourly. It’s amazing how this small device contains all your most personal information: passwords, contacts, messages. Even companies heavily rely on them to keep in touch with both their […]

May 10, 2018

LG has patched two severe vulnerabilities that reside in the default keyboard on all mainstream LG smartphones, including its flagship handsets; the flaws could be used to remotely execute code with elevated privileges. LG’s update also includes a fix for […]

January 22, 2018

The smartphone manufacturer has sent an email to anyone who may have been affected in the breach. Chinese smartphone manufacturer OnePlus has reported a credit card breach affecting up to 40,000 users at oneplus.net. Users who entered their credit card […]

December 4, 2017

Google is stepping its fight against unwanted and harmful applications on Android and will soon alert users on apps and websites leading to apps that collect personal data without their consent. Produced by Google Safe Browsing, the alerts will start […]

November 10, 2017

The FBI is still working to unlock the mobile phone of Devin P. Kelley, who shot and killed 26 people in a church in a rural Texas town on Sunday. The bureau’s revelation seems certain to revive the contentious debate […]

November 1, 2017

Researchers have managed to hack the Samsung Galaxy S8, the iPhone 7 and the Huawei Mate 9 Pro on the first day of the Mobile Pwn2Own 2017 competition taking place alongside the PacSec conference in Tokyo, Japan. The prize pool […]

January 26, 2017

As part of a broader look at President Donald Trump’s acclimation to the White House, the New York Times noted on Wednesday that Trump still uses his personal, consumer-grade Android smartphone in the White House. That’s worrying. Even if you’re […]

October 31, 2016

It’s easier than ever to use smartphones as go-to devices for accessing sensitive data and critical apps. Unfortunately, it’s also easier for cybercriminals to take advantage of them. “We’re starting to see public indications that mobile devices are an amazing […]

September 20, 2016

Less than 48 hours after a bomb exploded in a dumpster on a streetcorner in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York—and another device a few blocks away failed to explode—police have tracked the attack to New Jersey resident Ahmad Khan […]

August 9, 2016

Mobile represents a highly profitable channel for businesses, one that is critical in attracting new customers as well as retaining existing ones. A Cisco report on mobile growth projected that there will be 5.5 billion global users by 2020, up […]

July 19, 2016

In the latest attack that shows how hard it is for users to identify phone numbers with premium call charges, a researcher has found that he could have earned millions by abusing the online phone verification systems used by Google, […]

May 12, 2016

Smartphones usually keep way more data about you than your communications provider. For example, the built in GPS-receiver provides more accurate location than tracking your mobile phone with cell tower triangulation. Smartphone “interrogations” are automated. It works like any other […]

April 20, 2016

As computing devices shrink, Microsoft seems to think that a trackpoint, or “thumb mouse,” might be a good idea, especially if it hides a practical surprise: a fingerprint sensor that could be used to enable Windows Hello. As noted by […]

March 29, 2016

The government will drop its case against Apple after it was able to successfully crack an iPhone 5c used by one of the San Bernardino shooters, Syed Rizwan Farook staving off at least temporarily a showdown, which privacy advocates have […]

March 23, 2016

The future might replace passwords with mobile authentication. Recently the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced on 17 February this year that it launched a new standards effort in view of a different web authentication method  – “a more secure […]

February 24, 2016

Many experts say mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets will replace the PC. Some think this will take a matter of months; others would say a few years. I would argue that both camps are wrong: I believe it […]