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According to recent reports from Motherboard and Malwarebytes, cops now have capability to unlock your locked and encrypted iPhone and view your call logs, text messages and photos at will.
What’s more, they can even access your instant messaging and social media accounts if your phone signs you into those accounts automatically (always a bad idea).
And they can now do all of this without your assistance. [Read more…]
Password managers are quite popular these days, and Dashlane is one of the most-used providers of that service on the web.
Well, the folks at Dashlane have just published a new blog post about a great sounding initiative they’ve developed called “Project Mirror: Kill the Password”.
I won’t go into the details of how Project Mirror will work because you can get all that info in their blog post should you choose to read it. But I will tell you that I don’t like it. [Read more…]
As you probably know, the FBI asked Apple to help them recover the data from the iPhone that belonged to one of the San Bernardino attackers, but they refused to help.
Ultimately, it appeared that Apple would end up winning that battle in court, and I believe they would have had the legal battle been allowed to run its course. But now that won’t be necessary.
The FBI announced yesterday that they were able to break into the phone anyway with the help of a third party. [Read more…]
Have you ever loaned your smart phone to a friend and then spent the day wondering if he was reading your emails or looking at your pictures? Have you ever let your child play a game on your phone only to find out later that the settings had been changed? Do you refuse to let anyone else touch your phone because of concerns like these?
Thanks to a free app called App Lock, you can now let someone else use your Android smart phone without having to worry about them accessing your personal information and photos or changing the phone’s settings. [Read more…]