Category: data security

Zoom is now ‘the Facebook of video apps’

Post author By Randall
Post date April 10, 2020
Categories In alex stamos, data security, Facebook, feature, gear, Google, infosec, Privacy, silicon valley, startup, Tech, teleconferencing, Trump, webex, zoom

[ad_1] Which is why it’s especially cynical for many of us that Google banned employees from using Zoom’s shady desktop app on the same day that Zoom hired Facebook’s former security bobblehead as a consultant on its hazy privacy and security triage campaign. Everyone working remotely:ZOOM monitors the activity on your computer and collects data […]

The surveillance profiteers of COVID-19 are here

Post author By Randall
Post date March 27, 2020
Categories In bad password, badpassword, business, Cameras, China, coronavirus, covid-19, data security, gear, infosec, medicine, opinion, Politics, Privacy, Security, services, singapore, south korea, surveillance, taiwan, Tech, zoom

[ad_1] These normally privacy-forward sources are saying this in response to the pandemic, obviously. But it’s also because companies that track, target, identify and surveil individuals are pitching their technologies to ID and trace the infected — in shady backroom discussions with the White House. The pandemic has us all in vulnerable positions, and some […]

How home assistants ruined us, an explanation

Post author By Randall
Post date December 31, 2019
Categories In ads, Advertising, alexa, Amazon, apple homepod, av, bad password, badpassword, data security, eavesdropping, echo, gadgetry, Gadgets, gear, Google Assistant, Google Home, Home, infosec, Internet, internet of shit, Internet Of Things, iot, Lg, opinion, Samsung, Security, services, siri, smartthings, spying, Tech, veracode, vizio

[ad_1] Understandably, everyone is doing their introspection right now; their year- and decade-end summaries of what was most dreadful in tech, and what lead to this mess we’re all in. I can assure you that one of the key factors is what we have come to call The Internet of Shit and how we’ve embraced […]

Google fires employee activist amid protests

Post author By Randall
Post date November 25, 2019
Categories In Activism, business, data security, employment, gear, Google, Internet, Privacy, rebecca rivers, retaliation, Security, Tech

[ad_1] Reportedly, the four had conducted “systematic searches” for employees’ materials, shared it beyond their jobs despite warnings and even set notifications for what people were doing and when, including medical appointments. This led to targeted staffers feeling “scared or unsafe,” Google said. Calendar screenshots and other details reportedly found their way to people outside […]

How a trivial cell phone hack is ruining lives

Post author By Randall
Post date June 28, 2019
Categories In 2-factor, at&t, bad password, data breach, data security, digital security, gear, Gmail, Google, identity theft, infosec, Internet, Mobile, opinion, Security, services, sim, sim swapping, sms, t-mobile, Tech, Twitter, two-factorauthentication

[ad_1] “This is still very raw (I haven’t even told my family yet),” Coonce wrote in an anguished Medium post. “I can’t stop thinking about the small, easy things I could have done to protect myself along the way.” On a Monday night in June, Matthew Miller’s daughter woke him up to say that his […]

Facebook revives ‘View As Public’ profile feature

Post author By Randall
Post date May 14, 2019
Categories In Cybersecurity, data security, edit public details, Facebook, feature, gear, Internet, Privacy, profile, public, Security, Tech, view as public

[ad_1] Today, Facebook announced two changes that could make it easier to manage your publicly visible info. First, Facebook is bringing back the “View As Public” feature that allows users to preview their profiles as they appear to the general public. The company is also adding an “Edit Public Details” button directly on profiles. [ad_2] […]