March 27, 2020

Android apps are snooping on your installed software

Android apps are snooping on other software on your device - and that could tell shady advertising companies more about you than you'd like.

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September 10, 2019

Google & Apple pushed to reveal gun scope app users’ names to feds

It's a first: The government has never demanded personal data of a single app's users from Apple & Google.

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June 24, 2019

Mobile apps riddled with high-risk vulnerabilities, warns report

Be careful before installing that mobile app on your iOS or Android device - many mobile applications are riddled with vulnerabilities.

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February 14, 2019

Apple phone users targeted with hardcore porn and gambling apps

The apps, which violate content policies, got in there via the same Enterprise Certificate program that Facebook and Google exploited.

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July 26, 2018

More browser extensions and apps caught spying on users

The pop-up blocking function of many apps and browser extensions appears to obscure an ulterior motive – spying on a user’s web traffic.

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December 19, 2017

GPS is off so you can’t be tracked, right? Wrong

It's not just your GPS that gives away your location, researchers have discovered

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June 17, 2016

Apple: iOS to require HTTPS for apps by January

Apple is taking another big step towards ubiquitous encryption.

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June 15, 2016

Apple to (finally) allow you to remove stock apps on iOS 10

Apple's fixing one of the most annoying parts of iOS: the way it's forced people to put up with stock apps they never use.

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May 18, 2016

Runkeeper says “sorry!” for sending your every move to an ad service

The fitness app's maker said it found a bug in its Android version that was dribbling location data to an ad service in the US.

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