Comprehensive academic study finds hidden backdoor-like behavior in 6,800 Play Store apps, 1,000 apps from third-party app stores, and almost 4,800 apps pre-installed on user devices. …read more Source:: Open Source S
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Two third-party SDKs allowed secret harvesting of Twitter and Facebook user data
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•OneAudience and MobiBurn discontinue their respective SDKs after another data collection scandal breaks out on Monday. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Six fugly and strange secret hacks and tricks you can do with tabs in Chrome
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•When it comes to customizing Chrome, there are the publicly visible extensions, and then there are the secret experimental flags buried deep in the heart of Chrome itself. We tinker …read more Source:: Open Source S
Your secret weapon against cyberattacks? Hire someone who has been through it before
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•Having someone on board who has been there already can help your company prepare better for the inevitable attack. …read more Source:: Open Source S
The secret tricks Apple store staff use to push certain products
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•Salespeople in Apple stores aren’t on commission. The company does, however — according to former employees — find inventive ways to push one product or service. Or another. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Could this mystery foldable phone with two bends be secret Xiaomi device?
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•Xiaomi may have just come up with one of the better examples of a foldable tablet-smartphone. …read more Source:: Open Source S
No, Apple hasn’t activated a secret Mac repair kill switch – yet
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•It’s still possible to repair new Macs featuring the T2 chip – for now. But given Apple’s track record, people are entitled to be worried. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Meltdown-Spectre: Why were flaws kept secret from industry, demand lawmakers
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•Great work on patching your own products, but why were smaller tech companies kept in the dark? …read more Source:: Legal
The secret to being a great spy agency in the 21st century: Incubating startups
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•What happens when a top secret intelligence agency turns to entrepreneurs to help build new tools to protect a nation from cyberattacks? GCHQ found out. …read more Source:: Open Source S