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Palo Alto service to flag particularly evil security attacks

03

Apr

2015

Palo Alto Networks is introducing a service that tips customers off when it discovers unique or particularly dangerous attacks against their networks, giving them a heads up that perhaps they are the targets of particularly resourceful, dedicated adversaries. Called AutoFocus, the service is an add-on to the company’s existing cloud-based service WildFire that constantly analyzes […]

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“Your location has been shared 5398 times” – Do we need a privacy assistant on our smartphones?

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Apr

2015

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 […]

Category Mobile Privacy protection Security Written by Nakedsecurity 0 Comments

Users care about privacy when they know what info is collected about them

01

Apr

2015

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 […]

Category Mobile security Privacy protection Written by Feedproxy 0 Comments

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