What's worse than thieves hacking into your bank account? When they steal your phone number, too
What's worse than thieves hacking into your bank account? When they steal your phone number, too
https://apnews.com/article/fraud-identity-theft-fcc-wireless-providers-8df930f2983d589c4822bba53eedfc1b
What’s worse than thieves hacking into your bank account? When they steal your phone number, too. Associated Press writer Fatima Hussein recently fell victim to a type of fraud known as port-out hijacking, also called SIM-swapping.
Exclusive: USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap
https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/18/usps-shared-customer-postal-addresses-with-meta-linkedin-and-snap/
The U.S. Postal Service confirmed it took action to "remediate" the data sharing following a TechCrunch investigation.
Google accused of misleading consumers to grab more data for ads | TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/18/google-accused-of-misleading-consumers-to-grab-more-data-for-ads/
Italy's competition watchdog is investigating how Google gets user consent in order to link their activity across different services for ad profiling.
How I Got a Truly Anonymous Signal Account
https://theintercept.com/2024/07/16/signal-app-privacy-phone-number/
Yes, you can use Signal without sharing your personal phone number. Here’s how I did it.
Set up first-party mode | Google Tag Manager - First-party mode | Google for Developers
https://developers.google.com/tag-platform/tag-manager/first-party/setup-guide
Private Browsing 2.0
https://webkit.org/blog/15697/private-browsing-2-0/
When we invented Private Browsing back in 2005, our aim was to provide users with an easy way to keep their browsing private from anyone who shared the same device.
Vulnerabilities in VPNs: Paper presented at the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium 2024
Vulnerabilities in VPNs: Paper presented at the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium 2024 - The Citizen Lab
https://citizenlab.ca/2024/07/vulnerabilities-in-vpns-paper-presented-at-the-privacy-enhancing-technologies-symposium-2024/
On July 16, former Citizen Lab Open Technology Fund (OTF) Information Controls Fellowship Program fellow Benjamin Mixon-Baca will be presenting “Attacking
BusKill goes to DEF CON 32 - BusKill
https://www.buskill.in/defcon32/
Join BusKill at DEF CON 32 for our presentation titled "Open Hardware Design for BusKill Cord" in the Demo Lab
Gemini AI platform accused of scanning Google Drive files without user permission
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/gemini-ai-platform-caught-scanning-google-drive-files-without-user-permission
Gemini users may want to up their privacy
Chromium browsers have been quietly sending user information to Google
https://www.techspot.com/news/103811-chromium-browsers-have-quietly-sending-user-information-google.html
An API provided by a preinstalled extension called "hangout_services" in Chromium browsers is quietly sending information about users' CPU and GPU usage to Google when visiting Google...