Tag: mobile phones
  • Dec 24, 2020 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • Cybersecurity, Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media, Surveillance,

The widening SolarWinds debacle shows why the reckless idea of backdooring encryption must be dropped forever

The SolarWinds hack is the most serious breach of governmental and corporate security in years, perhaps the most serious breach ever – at least among those that we know about. The first news of the attack appeared on the FireEye blog at the beginning of this month. From the start, it was clear that this … Continue reading “The widening SolarWinds debacle shows why the reckless idea of backdooring encryption must be dropped forever”

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  • Dec 5, 2019 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

Roll-out of facial recognition by governments around the world accelerates as privacy experts sound the alarm

A year ago, this blog wrote about the spread of facial recognition systems, and the danger they represent to privacy. Since then, the roll-out has accelerated, as the technology becomes more accurate, and the products on offer become cheaper. Governments in particular see facial recognition as an easy way to check and control their populations. … Continue reading “Roll-out of facial recognition by governments around the world accelerates as privacy experts sound the alarm”

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  • Oct 3, 2019 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Surveillance,

Millions of smartphones vulnerable to SimJacker mobile phone exploit

Earlier this month, Adaptive Mobile Security released a report on a vulnerability and set of exploits which have since been named SimJacker. Adaptive Mobile Security showed that this attack vector has been used for at least the last two years to hack into target mobile phones. The security firm was able to identify that the … Continue reading “Millions of smartphones vulnerable to SimJacker mobile phone exploit”

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