Android is being portrayed as the smartphone operating system for those that like to push boundaries, be their own people and not conform to the usual rules, and there may be some truth to that if a recent report about how they treat security is anything to go by.
Claiming to be all nice and open is one thing, and letting anyone write an app for your platform and then make it available through said platform's official marketplace is another. One thing they both potentially have in common though is the potential for security issues, and Android is beginning to see such issues crop up with alarming regularity.
People take privacy on Facebook very, very seriously, and for good reason. You don't want people seeing things that you thought were private, or a larger group of people seeing something that you though was only visible to a select few.
E-Mail account hijacking is a big problem in our digital age. The convenience of sending instantaneous information electronically has seen handwritten letters nearing extinction. Many people rely greatly on their e-mail accounts for work as well as to keep up with those closest to them. Microsoft’s Hotmail service has long been soft a target for hacks and attacks, and is now upping the ante in order to protect its customers.
LulzSec Has Released 150,000+ User Credentials. Use This Tool To Check If Your Password Is Out There
LulzSec are the new hackers on the block, and they mean business. Over the last five weeks Lulz Security have been on a hacking spree, targeting a number of high profile companies across a selection of varied industries.
Daniel Amitay has developed an iPhone security App known as Big Brother Camera Security, which relies on the simple concept of capturing a picture of anyone who enters the wrong passcode when unlocking the device. Weirdly enough, the app also tracks passcodes (on an anonymous basis of course) for statistical purposes, which led Amitay to write a rather amusing blog post with the top 10 most used passcodes. And yes, the most used one is 1234, how did you guess?
Google revealed in an incredibly well-explained and sugar-coated blog post that the company had detected a phishing scam which attempted to obtain the passwords of U.S. Officials and Chinese activists.
A recently discovered security flaw that could allow access to Android's Google account authentication tokens by a third party will be fixed for all users soon.
Facebook and privacy just don't seem to be the best of friends, and today the social network had to remove a whole API in order to stop personal data being accessible by third parties.
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