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Do you know how much information your smartphone is giving away to app makers and advertisers? Lots of people have “no idea,” according to a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, who recently studied how people responded to discovering how much of their data was being shared. But the truth is it’s very hard to know exactly […]

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A recent study conducted by Carnegie Mellon and Notre Dame University researchers is calling attention to several interesting things. For one, mobile apps collect too much data – especially location data – too often. Secondly, users get better at protecting their privacy if they are offered adequate tools to do so and are “nudged” every […]

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Hundreds of #android and #ios apps are still vulnerable to a dangerous #attack revealed two weeks ago that can compromise encrypted data, a #security vendor said Tuesday. The apps have not yet been patched against the FREAK attack, short for Factoring attack on RSA-EXPORT Keys, which was revealed by researchers on March 3. The unpatched […]

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