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Fortune Teller App Ripping-off Personal Data also Appeared on Google Play

31

May

2012

We have recently encountered a fortune teller app that isn’t just trying to forecast the future; it is also stealing user information—and not to predict good fortune for the user. Last week, the Information-Technology Promotion Agency, Japan (IPA) issued a security warning about the discovery of yet another Japanese Android app that extracts personally identifiable […]

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Facebook/app data privacy – sharing gone wild

10

Feb

2012

So you browse your favorite restaurant review site and settle on a great Mediterranean restaurant, and “magically” a variety of preferences get fed back to your Facebook profile, to be shared, re-shared and re-shared, ricocheting around the internet to form purportedly value-added experiences elsewhere you visit. That’s great news if you want your preferences bounced […]

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Password Best Practices

25

Jan

2012

Often the disclosure of a password is no fault of our own but rather the result of a website or application compromise. Use these tips to develop a password management strategy that will dramatically decrease your overall risk if any one of your passwords is compromised. Hopefully the next time you have to create a […]

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