Survey Reveals Users Have No Clue About Router Security

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A recent survey of 2,205 regular users has proven once again that most people don’t update router firmware, don’t change default credentials, and don’t generally know how to secure their devices. For the past two-three years, there has been a deluge of news articles and research papers detailing large botnets built by exploiting router vulnerabilities…

MILLIONS OF APPS LEAK PRIVATE USER DATA VIA LEAKY AD SDKS

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SAN FRANCISCO – Millions of apps leak personal identifiable information such as name, age, income and possibly even phone numbers and email addresses. At fault are app developers who do not protect ad-targeting data transmitted to third-party advertisers.“ “The scale of what we first thought was just specific cases of careless application design is overwhelming,”…

German court finds Facebook oversharing user data

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‘Facebook hides default settings that are not privacy-friendly in its privacy center and does not provide sufficient information about this when users register,’ Federation of German Consumer Organisations (VZBV) legal expert Heiko Duenkel says FRANKFURT, Germany – A German court has found Facebook is breaching data protection rules with privacy settings that over-share by default…