FTC Cracks Down on Stalkerware With Retina-X App Bans
The FTC has banned the sale of three apps – marketed to monitor children and employees – unless the developers can prove that the apps will be used for legitimate purposes.
Privacy
Survey Finds People are Privacy Hypocrites
A report by HP found that most people admit to looking at others’ computer screens and documents in the workplace while still keeping their own privacy top of mind.
New Way Found to Use Alexa, Google to ‘Voice Phish’ and Eavesdrop on Users
Developer interfaces used by Security Research Labs researchers to turn digital home assistants into ‘Smart Spies’.
The bill is a direct shot at big tech companies like Facebook as senators try to reel in data-collection policies.
Researchers create digital dossiers of mobile users scraped from Tor network traffic.
Deepfake technology is becoming easier to create – and that’s opening the door for a new wave of malicious threats, from revenge porn to social-media misinformation.
The company acknowledged it’s using ‘safe browsing’ technology from Tencent, which has ties to the Chinese government.
An alleged fraudster built a vast web of AWS cloud accounts, becoming the platform’s biggest consumer of data resources.
Apple has been called out by Chinese state-run media as protecting “rioters,” while Blizzard bans a Hearthstone player for supporting Hong Kong.
Study participants fail to correctly identify core security concepts and tools to help them stay safe online.
