Is your smart TV selling data about what you watch, without asking? As the US FTC goes after one TV maker, it may be time to check.
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Is your smart TV selling data about what you watch, without asking? As the US FTC goes after one TV maker, it may be time to check.
The post FTC vs. VIZIO: Getting smart about TV data collection and sharing appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook recap the news of the week, including a Microsoft SMB zero day, the latest Netgear router vulnerability, and a new HTTPS milestone.
MacKeeper says it has found gigabytes of sensitive personal data stored by PIP Printing and Marketing Services and accessible online.
This week HTTPS hit a huge milestone. According to a two-week survey of telemetry data from the Mozilla Firefox browser, 50 percent of page loads used HTTPS.
Researchers have found a half-dozen flaws in popular printer models that allow attackers to do everything from steal print jobs to conduct buffer overflow attacks.
A security researcher has described how he uncovered a severe security hole in dozens of different Netgear routers, meaning that “hundreds of thousands, if not over a million” devices could be at risk of having their admin passwords stolen by hackers.
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You’re receiving more and more advertising emails. But where do these ads come from? And where did the companies get your data from?
The post Advertising and the value of your personal data appeared first on Avira Blog.
Facebook’s Delegated Recovery delegates account-recovery permissions to third-party accounts controlled by the user. GitHub is the program’s first partner.
Credit card data and personal information in the form of recorded telephone sales pitches and sales confirmations were leaked online by telemarketer.
Academics studying 283 Android VPN apps quantified a number of problems associated with native platform support for VPN clients through the BIND_VPN_SERVICE.