Against nine apps that offer spyware-like features, no vendor detected more than six of the nine, with the lowest-ranking only detecting a third of the threats.
Security & Privacy
Facebook Android App Leaked Hundreds of Millions of Users’ Phone Numbers
It’s been a rough couple of weeks for Facebook.
7 Ways Telemarketers Get Your Cell Phone Number
If you’re in the shrinking pool of people who still have a land line, you’re most likely inundated with calls from telemarketers. But your cell phone is different, right? Right?!
Building a Better Password
Hackers can break 90 percent of passwords, and new methods — like eyeprints — are needed to protect our data.
Warning: Cover Up Your Webcam When Not in Use
The BBC has uncovered an entire industry centering on the buying and selling of access to compromised webcams, especially those owned by women.
Leery of Facial Recognition? These Glasses Might Help
If you’re like Rockwell, you always feel like somebody’s watching you. And there’s no better way to fly under the radar of facial recognition systems than by wearing an oversized pair of glasses with nearly half a dozen …
Trust Us, We’re From Silicon Valley: Tech Giants Race to Bolster Public Image
America’s largest Internet companies are tripping over themselves to bolster their public image following blockbuster disclosures about their role in the U.S. government’s controversial data-gathering program.
How Police Use Facial Recognition Software to Identify You
This may sound like a terrible plot from an episode (every episode?) of CSI: Miami. But it’s also happening every day in police departments across the country.
Google: We’re No NSA Stooge and We’ll Prove It If the Feds Let Us
Google has asked the U.S. Department of Justice for permission to publish the number of national-security information requests it receives from the government.
Google’s Larry Page Denies Cooperation with PRISM
In a blog post titled “What the…?,” Google co-founder Larry Page addresses allegations that the government has direct access to Google’s servers, saying, “We had not heard of a program called PRISM until yesterday.”
What the …? [Official Google Blog]
PRISM Poll: Do You Care About the Government Mining Internet Data?
Simple yes or no answers here, but feel free to elaborate in the comments section.
PRISM by the Numbers: A Guide to the Government’s Secret Internet Data-Mining Program
To make all this shadowy surveillance easier to digest, here are the relevant points about the massive data collection.