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Report Identifies More Than 250 Evil Twin Mobile Applications
The Satori Threat Intelligence Team funded by HUMAN Security, a provider of a platform thwarting bot-based attacks, today disclosed it has uncovered a massive ad fraud operation involving the setting up of ...
Cyber Trust Mark: The Impacts and Incentives of Early Adoption
The Cyber Trust Mark is a labeling initiative for consumer IoT devices in the United States that builds on work undertaken by the FCC and NIST, establishing data privacy and cybersecurity standards ...
FCC Fines Wireless Carriers $200 million, Google’s Fight Against Malicious Apps
In episode 328, Tom and Kevin discuss two major cybersecurity and privacy news stories. The first topic covers the FCC issuing fines to major US wireless carriers for sharing users’ real-time location ...
Tips for protecting yourself against apps that collect data from your phone
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, it’s not ...
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 ...
