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OPM Hack May Have Exposed Security Clearance Data

08

Jun

2015

Twenty-four hours after unnamed White House officials said the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) #data #breach was linked to China, one #security company has connected the intrusion to the massive break-ins earlier this year at insurance companies Anthem and Premera Blue Cross, while a D.C. think tank this morning tweeted that the hackers made off […]

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Facebook tells developers to use SHA-2 certificate signatures for digital verification of apps

03

Jun

2015

The SHA-2 certificate signatures will replace those signed with SHA-1 and apps that use SHA-1 after October won’t work on #facebook anymore, Adam Gross, a production engineer at the company, stated a blog post. “We recommend that developers check their applications, SDKs, or devices that connect to Facebook to ensure they support the SHA-2 standard,” […]

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Android applications can secretly track location using Wi-Fi data

28

May

2015

Many #android #applications collect information on Wi-Fi access points, which researchers contend can be used to figure out where a person is more than 90 percent of the time. The privacy implications of Wi-Fi access point scanning is often overlooked but presents a #risk if the information is abused, according to the study, written by […]

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