Apple’s USB Restricted Mode: how to use your iPhone’s latest security feature
Apple’s USB Restricted Mode: how to use your iPhone’s latest security feature Apple quietly introduced a significant privacy safeguard as part of the new iOS 11.4.1 update that was released on July 9th. USB Restricted Mode prevents USB accessories that plug into the...
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Walmart’s Newly Patented Technology For Eavesdropping On Workers Presents Privacy Concerns
Walmart's Newly Patented Technology For Eavesdropping On Workers Presents Privacy Concerns Walmart just won a patent for audio surveillance technology that measures workers’ performance, and could even listen to their conversations with customers at checkout. The...
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Malware attacks skyrocket in first half of 2018: SonicWall
Malware attacks skyrocket in first half of 2018: SonicWall Malware attacks continued to accelerate in the first half of 2018, including a surprising rebound in the incidences of ransomware, according to the latest research from SonicWall. According to the newly...
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NSA deleting millions of phone call and text records over privacy violations
NSA deleting millions of phone call and text records over privacy violations “Technical irregularities” have the NSA scrambling to delete millions upon millions of phone and text message data records the agency should never have obtained under the USA Freedom Act....
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Facebook Is Still Abusing Your Privacy
Facebook Is Still Abusing Your Privacy Three months ago, Mark Zuckerberg was sitting before Congress, promising to change Facebook’s ways. “I started Facebook, I run it, and I’m responsible for what happens here,” he said. “It’s clear now that we didn’t do enough to...
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Former Apple Employee Charged With Stealing Self-Driving Car Secrets
Former Apple Employee Charged With Stealing Self-Driving Car Secrets A former Apple engineer was hit with criminal charges on Monday that claim he stole information about self-driving car technology with the intent to give it to a Chinese company. Xiaolang Zhang was...
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