Jan 5, 2019 | Cybersecurity, Radio Show
Airdrop Assaults On The Rise As Criminals Cyber Flash Strangers As technology infiltrates every aspect of our lives, criminals and creeps are figuring out creative ways to abuse it. One such way is called “cyber-flashing.” Cyber-flashing is the act of sending lewd...
Dec 29, 2018 | cell phones, Phone, Radio Show, Security, Smart Phone
Sorry, Your Data Can Still Be Identified Even If It’s Anonymized Thanks to the near-complete saturation of the city with sensors and smartphones, we humans are now walking, talking data factories. Passing through a subway turnstile, sending a text, even just carrying...
Dec 29, 2018 | Radio Show, Security
Delete All Your Apps The New York Times published a horrifying investigation in which the publication reviewed a huge, “anonymized” dataset of smartphone location data from a third-party vendor, de-anonymized it, and tracked ordinary people through their day-to-day...
Dec 29, 2018 | Radio Show, Security
The 6 Reasons Why Huawei Gives The Us And Its Allies Security Nightmares The detention in Canada of Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s CFO and the daughter of its founder, is further inflaming tensions between the US and China. Her arrest is linked to a US extradition request. On...
Dec 29, 2018 | Phone, Radio Show, Smart Phone
Groundbreaking Study Examines Effects Of Screen Time On Kids If you have kids and wonder if all that time they spend on their smartphones endlessly scrolling, snapping and texting is affecting their brains, you might want to put down your own phone and pay attention....
Dec 29, 2018 | Privacy, Radio Show, Security
The Next Big Risk To Your Privacy: Your Child’s Video-Game Habit Be careful who you play with. Online gaming is a growing target for hackers, a new report from identity theft protection firm Experian EXPN, -0.11% found. Cyber criminals are increasingly posing as...
Dec 22, 2018 | Radio Show, Security, Tracking
Your Apps Are Tracking You — Here’s How To Stop Them The apps on your phone are tracking you when you go to the grocery store, when you drive to work, and when you travel to doctor’s appointments. Security experts have long expected various companies track users...
Dec 22, 2018 | Hacking, Internet, Radio Show, Security
Marriott Says It Will Pay For Replacement Passports After Data Breach. Here’s Why That’s Likely Baloney As you have no doubt heard by now, Marriott disclosed a massive data breach that exposed up to 500 million customer records. Hackers accessed...