After exposing private tweets, plaintext passwords, and personal information for hundreds of thousands of its users, here is a new security blunder social networking company Twitter admitted today.Twitter announced that the phone numbers and email addresses of some users provided for two-factor authentication (2FA) protection had been used for targeted advertising … [Read more...] about You Gave Your Phone Number to Twitter for Security and Twitter Used it for Ads
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Just a GIF Image Could Have Hacked Your Android Phone Using WhatsApp
A picture is worth a thousand words, but a GIF is worth a thousand pictures.Today, the short looping clips, GIFs are everywhere—on your social media, on your message boards, on your chats, helping users perfectly express their emotions, making people laugh, and reliving a highlight.But what if an innocent-looking GIF greeting with Good morning, Happy Birthday, or Merry … [Read more...] about Just a GIF Image Could Have Hacked Your Android Phone Using WhatsApp
New SIM Card Flaw Lets Hackers Hijack Any Phone Just By Sending SMS
Cybersecurity researchers today revealed the existence of a new and previously undetected critical vulnerability in SIM cards that could allow remote attackers to compromise targeted mobile phones and spy on victims just by sending an SMS.Dubbed "SimJacker," the vulnerability resides in a particular piece of software, called the S@T Browser (a dynamic SIM toolkit), embedded on … [Read more...] about New SIM Card Flaw Lets Hackers Hijack Any Phone Just By Sending SMS
What’s Important to Men and Women When Purchasing a New Phone
A Nielsen survey looks at the key features of mobile phones that appeal to both men and women, which aren't always the same. Globally, while more men gravitate toward tech-savvy mobile phone attributes like operating system (48% men vs. 41% women), battery life (48% vs. 44%), screen size (38% vs. 34%) and processor speed (41% vs. 31%) when shopping for a new device, more women … [Read more...] about What’s Important to Men and Women When Purchasing a New Phone