Tag: app
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VB2018 paper: Little Brother is watching – we know all your secrets!
The use of mobile spyware to spy on (ex-)partners is an underreported problem, despite the prevalence of such apps and their use in cases of domestic violence. At VB2017 in Madrid, security journalist Joseph Cox spoke about this problem. Closely linked to these apps are ‘mutual-awareness tracking apps’, which allow people to track the location…
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VB2018 paper: Little Brother is watching – we know all your secrets!
The use of mobile spyware to spy on (ex-)partners is an underreported problem, despite the prevalence of such apps and their use in cases of domestic violence. At VB2017 in Madrid, security journalist Joseph Cox spoke about this problem. Closely linked to these apps are ‘mutual-awareness tracking apps’, which allow people to track the location…
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VB2016 paper: Wild Android collusions
Playing out in the sidelines of the Cambridge Analytica scandal was the discovery that Facebook had been collecting metadata on the calls and SMS conversations of many of the users of its Android app. Whatever your view on this practice, the fact that it is carried out by a single app does at least make…
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VB2016 paper: Wild Android collusions
Playing out in the sidelines of the Cambridge Analytica scandal was the discovery that Facebook had been collecting metadata on the calls and SMS conversations of many of the users of its Android app. Whatever your view on this practice, the fact that it is carried out by a single app does at least make…
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VB2014 video: Attack points in health apps & wearable devices – how safe is your quantified self?
Health apps and wearable devices found to make many basic security mistakes. “I know a lot of you have a Fitbit device.” The geeks attending VB conferences tend to like their gadgets, and many of them have the latest ones, so the claim made by Candid Wüest at the beginning of his VB2014 last-minute presentation…