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• September 25, 2013

Home > Siri offers the latest backdoor into your iPhone With two lockscreen holes and a fingerprint sensor that can be fooled with woodglue, we thought we’d given diehard iPhone fans a horse that was already dangerously high enough for them not to get down from. Read more here Have Questions? Questions about mobile security? Contact...

• September 25, 2013

Home > Recycled Yahoo email addresses still receiving messages for previous owners – passwords included Yahoo announced in June 2013 that it would recycle inactive email addresses by giving them to other users who wanted them. Addresses and Yahoo IDs that had been inactive for at least a year...

• September 25, 2013

Home > iOS 7 Lockscreen Hole Discovered Already Lock screens have a chequered security history, with Android having its recent share of problems, too. The main reason is complexity, one of security’s mortal enemies. You can understand why some exceptions to a phone lock might be desirable, or even required by the...

• June 9, 2013

Home > Privacy – Government Is Tracking Verizon Customers’ Records The National Security Agency is obtaining a complete set of phone records from all Verizon U.S. customers under a secret court order, according to a published account and former officials. The account provides fresh evidence that the NSA’s far-reaching...

• June 9, 2013

Home > Privacy – US orders Google to hand over user info to the FBI In March, a US federal judge sided with the privacy advocacy group, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), in overturning the constitutionality of National Security Letters (NSLs). The letters, the judge wrote, violate free-speech rights....

• May 15, 2013

Home > Sues Over Naked Photos Now this one is rich. 🙂 Imagine the scene. You buy a second-hand laptop, using it to, among other things, have secret sexy video chats with your significant other. Unbeknownst to you, naked photos of you are being taken by a company hired...