apps
This year’s resolution: remove nosey apps from your device
Last year, a thoughtful friend gifted me a gimbal for my phone. A gimbal is a special handle with a gyroscopic motor that takes your mobile filming to the next…you know what, ...
Netflix: Is Password-Sharing a Crime?
On May 25, 2023 streaming content provider Netflix began enforcing its policy prohibiting the sharing of Netflix accounts even among family members who are not members of the same “household”—meaning living together ...
Top 3 Location Tracking Apps: Do They Sell Your Data?
This week we discuss the top 3 location tracking apps in the Apple App Store and Google Play and which ones sell your data. Plus, details about recent fake Chick-fil-A and Olive ...
Your Apps Offer a Gateway for Cybercrime
Most facets of modern life—including our work—are app reliant. We depend on apps for productivity, for communication, to connect businesses with customers. Where we once relied on websites, we now turn to ...
Analysis of a Parental Control System
Canopy was advertised to me through my child’s school. The company offers a multi-platform parental control app claiming various abilities to limit and monitor use of protected devices. Access to Canopy is ...
Multi-Factor Authentication and Authenticator Apps
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month so in this episode we discuss multi-factor authentication and the use of authenticator apps. Multi-factor authentication is one of the most important things that you can enable ...
Getting Application Security Back on the Rails
In its Interagency Report 7695, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) defined an application as “a system for collecting, saving, processing, and presenting data by means of a computer.” This ...
Criminals arrested after trusting encrypted chat app cracked by police
Police in the Netherlands and Belgium have made hundreds of raids, and arrested at least 80 people, after cracking into an encrypted phone network used by organised criminals. In a press release, ...
What Happens to Your Personal Data after Deleting an App
Over the last decade or so, apps have become a familiar and comfortable aspect of our everyday lives. We download them to our smartphones and tablet devices and swap them out whenever ...
Google Blocked 790,000 Apps from the Play Store in 2019
Google is fighting an uphill battle when it comes to dangerous apps that try to work their way into the Android ecosystem, and the company prevented 790,000 dangerous apps from being published ...