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Android vulnerabilities open Pie to booby-trapped image attacks
A trio of bugs could have opened Android 7, 8 and 9 to remote attackers wielding
booby-trapped image files. Here's what you need to know...
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iPhone apps record your screen sessions without asking
Absent from privacy policies, the tracking came to light after a breach
with Air Canada's mobile app, then password slurping from Mixpanel.
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Child abuse imagery found in cryptocurrency blockchain
For the second time in a year, illegal child abuse images have been
spotted inside a blockchain.
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Student gets creative with data accidentally blasted out by university
A university employee accidentally emailed a spreadsheet containing
personal information on every one of the college's 4,557 students.
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Police demands Waze stop pinpointing their checkpoints
Waze users are helping intoxicated drivers to evade checkpoints and
could thus be "engaging in criminal conduct," say police.
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Facebook ordered to keep apps separate unless users opt in to sharing
So much for creating a three-headed Cerberus marketing-happy chat dog!
Also, we'll soon see the who-what-huh? behind the ads we're shown.
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