China's border guards close to Xinjiang install Android malware on tourists' devices that scans for 70K+ files and downloads texts, calendar entries, phone logs
An APK Chinese authorities load onto the Android phones … Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs : China installs a surveillance app on tourists' phones while crossing in the Xinjiang Harper Neidig / T...
Study: Facebook lets ads target your account using info given for security purposes, like your phone number, as well as info from your friends' address books
Facebook Is Using Your Private Information … Seamus Bellamy / Boing Boing : Facebook's been caught using their customers' 2FA information to spam them with text ads John Glenday / The Drum : Extent of...
Experts reveal 13 alleged flaws in AMD Ryzen and EPYC chips, just 24 hours after showing AMD, that allow malware to be installed on secure portions of the chips
And Face Their Own Backlash Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware : Report Claims AMD Ryzen, EPYC CPUs Contain 13 Security Flaws (Updated) Viceroy Research : AMD - The Obituary — Viceroy analyze CTS Labs' re...
750K+ people sign Change.org petition calling for Snapchat redesign to be reverted as celebs including Chrissy Teigen, Kylie Jenner, MKBHD criticize update
Snapchat recently shipped … Tyler Lee / Ubergizmo : Snapchat Users Are Petitioning To Revert To The Old Design Ali Breland / The Hill : Snapchat users push back on controversial redesign Arden Dier / ...
Apple releases macOS High Sierra security fix for critical root vulnerability, says it's auditing its development processes to prevent future flaws
and thoroughly — does Apple fix macOS security holes? Chris Burns / SlashGear : MacOS flaw fix update out now Lory Gil / iMore : Having problems with file sharing after installing the macOS High Sierr...
The Equifax breach, affecting ~44% of US population, is possibly the worst leak of personal information ever and was handled poorly by the company
How To Protect Your Credit And Identity If Your Data Was Compromised Sadagopan / Sadagopan's weblog … : Equifax : Disturbing Developments Tony Zerucha / Bankless Times : Industry reacts to Equifax dat...
Chaos Computer Club hackers say they have defeated Samsung Galaxy S8's iris recognition system using a photo of victim's iris
Biometrics on smartphones … Ian Morris / Forbes : Samsung Galaxy S8 Iris Scanner Hacked In Three Simple Steps Corbin Davenport / Android Police : Members of the Chaos Computer Club have cracked the Ga...
Ellen Pao apologizes again, announces new role of Moderator Advocate to be moderators' contact with Reddit, pledges improvements to mod tools
promises new tools for users CNNMoney : Reddit CEO Ellen Pao apologizes: We screwed up Blair Hanley Frank / Computerworld : Reddit CEO Ellen Pao works to calm furor with big ‘mea culpa’ Jack Linshi / ...
Samsung's SmartTV privacy policy warns that spoken personal or sensitive information captured by voice recognition may be transmitted to a third party
5 things to know today Parmy Olson / Forbes : Samsung's Smart TVs Share Living Room Conversations With Third Parties Help Net Security : Be careful when talking in front of a Samsung SmartTV Graham Cl...