Researchers have found a way to impersonate mobile devices on 4G and 5G mobile networks, and are calling on operators and standards bodies to fix the flaw that caused it.

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Formerly preferred diplomatic app WhatsApp apparently isn’t up to snuff.

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This line of thinking could get absurd, Indiana’s supreme court declared. How do you “steal” something if you don’t know who owns it?

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When a bug’s a zero-day that means it’s being actively exploited. So don’t delay, just patch today!

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Is Android finally about to get on top of the issue of apps that quietly suck up location data?

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Private chat invites aren’t meant to be unfindable, Facebook says, though a snippet of code eventually shielded them from Google indexing.

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Fascinating research from SophosLabs into a wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing malware sample.

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That smart home speaker isn’t listening to everything you say, according to new research – but it is listening a lot more than it should.

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Nonsense! says Google in response to a lawsuit filed by New Mexico’s AG, which accuses Google of violating COPPA’s child privacy laws.

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The company left a server open and unprotected, regurgitating private data slurped from thousands of surveilled people, including children.

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