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A week in security (August 31 - September 6)
5+ day, 21+ hour ago (123+ words) Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Available with Malwarebytes Premium Security for all your devices, and in the Malwarebytes app for iOS and Android. Try it free → As X expands into payments, users are receiving password-reset emails they didn’t request. Here’s…...
Popular school apps may be sharing student data with advertisers
2+ week, 3+ day ago (374+ words) A two-year investigation into educational technology (EdTech) apps used by Utah schools found that many were collecting and sharing student data in ways that appeared inconsistent with their privacy commitments. EdTech is a massive commercial industry and some argue that…...
Encrypted instructions can fool AI assistants like Grok and Gemini
2+ week, 4+ day ago (507+ words) A new type of prompt injection attack shows why giving AI assistants access to browsers, code tools, and private data deserves extra caution. AI researchers describe “Cryptographic Context Injection”—an attack that hides malicious instructions inside encrypted data. The AI…...
What happens to your data when you die? (Lock and Code S07E17)
2+ week, 5+ day ago (460+ words) This week on the Lock and Code podcast… You will die. Your data will not. The afterlife of our information is a recent phenomenon, and some of the companies with the most to sort through are still just figuring it…...
AliExpress caught using silent audio to fingerprint visitors’ browsers
2+ week, 5+ day ago (532+ words) AliExpress, the online marketplace owned by Alibaba Group, has come under scrutiny after researchers and browser maker Brave reported finding silent Web Audio processing on the site that could help fingerprint visitors’ devices. The audio processing did not record people…...
Your Mac already has a built-in firewall. Here's how to get more from it
3+ week, 2+ day ago (496+ words) Your Mac comes with a built-in firewall, but it’s probably not something you’ve given much thought to. A firewall helps control incoming connections—requests from apps and other devices that want to connect to your Mac—giving you an extra…...
9 million images of people’s faces exposed by reverse lookup service
3+ week, 2+ day ago (467+ words) Researcher Jeremiah Fowler found a cloud database containing more than 9 million image files accessible without authentication, WIRED reports. The leaky bucket, containing some 450 GB of images, was traced back to a US-registered company called ClarityCheck. In their own words, ClarityCheck…...
Sideloading on Android: What it is, why it's risky, and how to do it more safely
3+ week, 3+ day ago (780+ words) A Google spokesperson announced on Reddit that it has started rolling out the first version of its Advanced Flow, designed to make installing apps from unverified developers safer. Let us explain what sideloading is, why Google Play is not 100% safe,…...
Be careful what you put in “anyone with the link” Google Docs
3+ week, 4+ day ago (751+ words) The next time you type something sensitive into a Google Doc—or any other online tool with a sharing feature—be careful about the permissions you grant. Speaking with The Register, the founder of QR generation service Pageloot said that…...