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Software Security

Issued by: Malwarebytes

Two women filed a proposed class-action lawsuit on Monday, December 5, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against Apple, the makers of AirTags. Airtags are a small Bluetooth-enabled devices designed to track personal belongings. The suit accuses the company of failure to introduce measures to combat abuse of the…

Network Security

Issued by: Help Net Security

The largest collection of public internet censorship data ever compiled shows that even citizens of what are considered the world’s freest countries aren’t safe from internet censorship. A team from the University of Michigan used its own Censored Planet tool, an automated censorship tracking system launched in 2018, to collect more than 21 billion measurements…

Application Security

Issued by: Help Net Security

The privacy implications of email tracking

Emails are a widely used means for third parties to tie your email address to your activities across the web, Princeton University researchers have discovered. The extent of email tracking Email tracking was originally aimed at allowing senders to know whether the recipient has read the sent email. Unfortunately, many third parties also receive this…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: CIO Security

US legislation revived to curb warrantless geolocation tracking

U.S. legislators have reintroduced bills that would place curbs on warrantless access by the government to electronically generated geolocation information of Americans, including on the use of cell-site simulators that can capture cellphone data. Bicameral legislation introduced Wednesday, called the Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act, aims to create clear rules for when law enforcement agencies…

Network Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

Catching Online Scammers, Dealers & Drug Dealers With DNS

Takedowns of malicious or fraudulent websites is a temporary fix for online fraud and crime, mainly because the bad guys then just put up another website domain they have waiting in the wings. Researchers at Black Hat Europe in London tomorrow will demonstrate a new technique they developed that uses Domain Name Service (DNS) analysis…