Posts Tagged ‘security engineer’

Facebook removes a privacy control, surprised?

Apr

2013

On March 27th, Joey Tyson, a privacy and security engineer at Facebook, asked: In general, I think many people tend to trust Google more than Facebook. Any thoughts from my followers on why that might be? Tyson, a.k.a. Social Hacking, is a privacy advocate, and was long before he began working for Facebook. He’s asking […]

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Malicious Developers Release Rogue Bad Piggies Versions

Oct

2012

It’s a pig-eat-pig world out there – at least on the mobile app threat front. Right after reports of malicious Bad Piggies on Google Chrome Web Store circulated, we found that certain developers also released their own, albeit rogue versions of the said gaming app. On the heels of Bad Piggies‘ launch last month, we […]

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Google Wallet PINs easily stolen from rooted devices

Feb

2012

Joshua Rubin, a security engineer with zvelo, disclosed his research into the (in)security of Google Wallet. Google Wallet is a new near field communication (NFC) electronic wallet that allows customers to pay for everyday purchases by entering a PIN on their Android smartphone and tapping it on a receiver, similar to Mastercard PayPass.What Rubin discovered […]

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