Security in the Android ecosystem is awful. There's just no other word to describe it.
In large part, the blame for that can be placed at the feet of Google. Although they have succeeded in creating a wildly successful platform, their management of OEM devices (in particular, security updates for them) have been virtually nonexistent.
As far as hackers are concerned, no target is safe. Not even the Girl Scouts.
Recently, one of the Girl Scouts' official email accounts was accessed by an "unauthorized third party" and as a result, as many as 2,800 girl scouts in Orange County, California may have had their personal information compromised.
Do you use Tumblr? If so, be aware that your personal information may have been exposed.
Tumblr recently added a feature called "Recommended Blogs" that presents you with a list of blogs you might enjoy based on your past viewing habits. It's a great idea in theory, but unfortunately, there were problems with the way the feature was implemented.
McAfee has long been a popular target of scammers, but recently, they've changed the nature of their game.
In years past, they'd display a webpage informing you that any McAfee products on your computer are out of date and provide a link to the company's virtual storefront where you could renew.
If you take a lot of photos with your Android device, you're probably constantly on the lookout for a better way to organize them and access them. That's exactly what the authors of the malicious app called "The Album, by Google Photos" are hoping for.
Anthem is one of the largest insurance providers in the United States. Unfortunately in 2015, they had the dubious honor of suffering the largest health data breach in history. It left protected health information of nearly 79 million of their customers exposed.
Move over Facebook. Where teens are concerned, Instagram reigns supreme, according to a recently published survey.
Piper Jaffray has been tracking how teenagers use the internet for nearly twenty years, and the second report of this year has some interesting findings indeed.
You probably haven't heard of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Systems.
They're a low-profile division of the Department of Health and Human Services responsible for administering the Affordable Care Act.
Recently, the company announced that they detected anomalous activity in the systems related to the healthcare.
Microsoft hasn't been terribly impressive lately when it comes to Windows 10 updates. In fact, it's fair to say that they've been a complete mess. Just recently, they've issued updates that have deleted user files and caused crashes after creating incompatibilities with keyboard drivers.
Google is taking additional steps to bolster user privacy and better secure the data of the company's legions of Android device owners. The company recently announced a change to the Android Backup Service that will encrypt all user backup data stored on its cloud servers, such that even Google itself can't read it.
