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First Ban on Selling Location Data, Prohibiting Password Managers, Real-Time Crime Center Concerns

First Ban on Selling Location Data, Prohibiting Password Managers, Real-Time Crime Center Concerns

| | Credential Storage, crime, Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, Digital Privacy, Digital Stalking, Episodes, External Password Managers, Information Security, Infosec, Location Shield Act, location tracking, Massachusetts, national security, password managers, passwords, Podcast, Podcasts, police, policing, Privacy, Real-Time Crime Centers, RTCC, security, Stalking, surveillance, technology, Weekly Edition
In this episode we discuss how Massachusetts lawmakers are pushing a groundbreaking bill to ban the buying and selling of location data from mobile devices. This legislation raises vital questions about consumer ...
Shared Security Podcast
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Ironic: LetMeSpy Spyware Hackers Were Hacked (by Hackers)

| | android spyware, cyberstalking, Data breach, Data Leaks, iOS spyware, LetMeSpy, maia arson crimew, Malware Spyware, Parental Control, parental controls, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, spyware, Stalkerware, Stalking, Stalkware
Content warning: Abuse, stalking, controlling behavior, Schadenfreude, irony, doxxing ...
Security Boulevard
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Supreme Court to Address Online Threats to Celebrities

| | Coles Whalen, Counterman v Colorado, Cyberlaw, cyberstalking, Privacy, Stalking
On April 19, 2023, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Counterman v. Colorado, a case readdressing the question of the mental state the government has to demonstrate to ...
Security Boulevard

Fines as a Security System

| | courts, law enforcement, Stalking, theft, tracking, Uncategorized
Tile has an interesting security solution to make its tracking tags harder to use for stalking: The Anti-Theft Mode feature will make the devices invisible to Scan and Secure, the company’s in-app ...
Schneier on Security

Tracking People via Bluetooth on Their Phones

| | academic papers, bluetooth, identification, Privacy, Stalking, tracking, Uncategorized
We’ve always known that phones—and the people carrying them—can be uniquely identified from their Bluetooth signatures, and that we need security techniques to prevent that. This new research shows that that’s not ...
Schneier on Security

AirTags Are Used for Stalking Far More than Previously Reported

| | Apple, police, Stalking, tracking, Uncategorized
Ever since Apple introduced AirTags, security people have warned that they could be used for stalking. But while there have been a bunch of anecdotal stories, this is the first vaguely scientific ...
Schneier on Security
Apple Failed—AirTag has a HUGE Stalking Problem

Apple Failed—AirTag has a HUGE Stalking Problem

| | A million people being able to find their keys a bit easier is no tradeoff for a single person being stalked, AirTag, Apple, Consumer IoT, cyberstalking, geolocation, iot, location privacy, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, Stalking
One year on, the Apple AirTag product has proved the dire predictions correct: They’re being used to “stalk and harass women.” ...
Security Boulevard
TikTok Circumvents Privacy Protections, Russian Sanction Attacks, AirTag Anti-Stalking Measures

TikTok Circumvents Privacy Protections, Russian Sanction Attacks, Apple AirTag Anti-Stalking Measures

| | AirTag, AirTags, Apple, Apple iOS, Biden, Cybersecurity, Device Tracking, Digital Privacy, Episodes, Information Security, Infosec, Podcast, Privacy, Ransomware, Russia, security, Stalking, surveillance, technology, TikTok, tracking, Ukraine, Weekly Edition
How TikTok can circumvent privacy protections and performs device tracking that gives TikTok full access to user data, the US government warns about ransomware attacks after Biden’s new sanctions against Russia, and ...
The Shared Security Show
Joy Of Tech® 'AirTag Tracking!'

Joy Of Tech® ‘AirTag Tracking!’

| | Joy of Tech®, Nitrozac and Snaggy, Privacy Invasion, Privacy Satire, Sarcasm, satire, Stalking, Tech Sarcasm, Tech Satire, Tech-Based Crime
via the Comic Noggins of Nitrozac and Snaggy at The Joy of Tech®! Permalink ...
Infosecurity.US
Apple AirTag Android App is Absolutely Awful—Tracker Detect Fail

Apple AirTag Android App is Absolutely Awful—Tracker Detect Fail

| | AirTag, android, Apple, cyberstalking, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, Stalking, the people collecting this information are generally better at being evil than I am at being paranoid, Tracker Detect
Apple is proud to announce its anti-stalking app for Android: Tracker Detect lets Android users scan for malicious, hidden AirTag trackers ...
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