Privacy activists say rolling-back ISP privacy rules means health, financial and browsing habits can be used, shared and sold to the highest bidder without consent.
Paper Spells Out Tech, Legal Options for Encryption Workarounds
Bruce Schneier and Orin Kerr have written a paper that explains the technological and legal issues associated with six encryption workarounds available to law enforcement.
Half of Android Devices Unpatched Last Year
Google said half of Android devices are unpatched and that percentage of potentially harmful apps on phones installed from all sources rose in 2016.
Researchers find 38 Android devices shipping with pre-installed malware
Malicious apps not part of the original ROM, say researchers, but were added somewhere along the supply chain
Congressional Group Says Encryption Backdoors Are a Bad Idea
Members of the bipartisan encryption working group released a year-end report concluding that encryption backdoor laws would do more harm than good.
Apple Fixes 12 Vulnerabilities in iOS 10.2
Apple released iOS 10.2 on Monday, addressing a handful of security vulnerabilities, including two issues that could have led to arbitrary code execution.
EFF Blasts DEA in Ongoing Secret ‘Super Search Engine’ Lawsuit
EFF is dismayed by the cavalier attitude by law enforcement over warrantless searches of trillions of phone records and its refusal to turn over documents.
Dirty Cow Vulnerability Patched in Android Security Bulletin
Today’s Android Security Bulletin included a patch for the Dirty Cow vulnerability, a seven-year-old Linux bug that had yet to be patched by Google.
Gooligan Malware Breaches 1 Million Google Accounts
The Gooligan Android malware steals Google authentication tokens from mobile devices to breach user and corporate accounts.
WordPress Plugins Leave Black Friday Shoppers Vulnerable
Researchers found a third of the top WordPress e-commerce plugins contain severe vulnerabilities tied to XSS cross-site scripting, SQL injection and file manipulation flaws.