Category: App security

November 13, 2019

Facebook’s iOS app has been opening the iPhone’s camera in the background when users look at the Facebook feed. But it was an accident, not a feature, says Facebook. The company has responded to concerns raised by Facebook user Joshua […]

November 6, 2019

Facebook has quietly revealed another privacy breach involving approximately 100 developers. On Tuesday, Konstantinos Papamiltiadis, Facebook’s Director of Platform Partnerships said in a blog post that the names and profile pictures of users connected to Groups and the system’s API […]

November 1, 2019

And you thought you were going to have to wait until Black Friday to get the best sales and offers. Well IPVanish’s new ‘Cyber Sale’ might just prove you wrong – it is offering 73% off its yearly plan. Meaning […]

October 31, 2019

WhatsApp has announced the rollout of support for biometric authentication through fingerprint sensors on the Android platform. On Thursday, the Facebook-owned messaging application said that devices running on Google’s Android operating system, should they be of a model new enough […]

October 25, 2019

Seventeen malicious iPhone apps have been removed from the Apple App Store after being found to click on adverts secretly, generating income for cyber criminals. The applications — all from the same developer — were found conducting ad-fraud, by clicking […]

October 22, 2019

At least eight eavesdropping apps have slipped past Google and Amazon’s app verification process and made their way into their respective app stores, ready to be downloaded onto the smart speakers of unsuspecting victims. As Ars Technica reports, researchers at […]

October 9, 2019

Apple has added a number of awesome and much-needed privacy features to iOS 13, and one of the best is the way the operating system informs you about apps that are tracking your movements. How does it do this? Via […]

October 8, 2019

Instagram has added a new feature to its app to help users work out if an email was sent by the Facebook company or if it’s an attempted phishing scam. Now, if you receive an email claiming to be from […]

October 1, 2019

WhatsApp is developing a new feature that would allow you to set your messages to self-destruct after a set period of time. The new “disappearing messages” feature first appeared in version 2.19.275 of the Android app, but WABetaInfo, who first […]

September 20, 2019

These days privacy online feels like an unattainable dream. Everything you do becomes data for companies, which sell that data to affiliates, which then sell your data back to you in the form of targeted ads and personalized recommendations. That […]