Many of the top VPN services and apps, some with 100M+ downloads, have misled users about their practices while disguising their ownership, like ties to China
Joseph Menn / Washington Post :
Twitter ending free API access could have the unfortunate side effect of killing many useful bots, like @MakeItAQuote, @BigTechAlert, @_weather_bot_, and more
we're talking earthquake alerts, severe weather alerts, tornado alerts. https://twitter.com/... Anthony DeRosa / @anthony : Not all bots are bad, in fact some of them are wonderful and they'll all be ...
T-Mobile investigates claims that hackers stole data from its servers, including phone numbers, names, SSNs, and driver's license info, related to 100M+ people
Joseph Cox / VICE :
Go SMS Pro, an Android messaging app with 100M+ installs, is exposing photos, videos, and other files sent privately by its users
Go SMS Pro, one of the most popular messaging apps for Android, is exposing photos, videos and other files sent privately by its users. Worse, the app maker has done nothing to fix the bug.
A profile of Discord, which lies at the center of the gaming world with 100M+ MAUs, as it pushes to turn into a communication tool for everyone, not just gamers
Most longtime Discord users have a similar origin story. They liked playing video games, and liked playing with their friends … Tweets: @kevinctofel , @panzer , @postimusmaximus , @aweary , @drorpole...
Confiant: two Hong Kong-based firms have been responsible for malicious ads with 100M+ impressions in 2019, including many shown via Microsoft's Windows 10 apps
Security firm tracks down malvertiser who deployed malicious ads in Outlook, Microsoft games, and the Microsoft News app.
Researchers: a version of 4Shared, a file-sharing Android app with 100M+ installs, has 3rd-party code letting it automate clicks and make fraudulent purchases
secretly displays invisible ads and subscribes users to paid services, racking up charges without the user's knowledge or consent.https://techcrunch.com/ ... Zack Whittaker / @zackwhittaker : Plot twi...
Report: 17K Android apps, some with 100M+ installs, collect info that can be used to create a permanent record of user's activity on the device for ad targeting
Some apps may track your activity over time, even when you tell them to forget the past. And there's nothing you can do about it.
Report: 2,446 Android and 600 iOS apps using Google's Firebase service found to have misconfigured databases exposing 100M+ records of a wide range of user data
Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer :
Report: 2,446 Android and 600 iOS apps using Google's Firebase service found to have misconfigured databases exposing 100M+ records of a wide range of user data
Thousands of iOS and Android mobile applications are exposing over 113 GBs of data via over 2,271 misconfigured Firebase databases …