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As if you didn’t have enough to worry about when it comes to being stalked on the Internet, now comes along a new hack to the social driving app Waze. Researchers at the UC-Santa Barbara were able to demonstrate how to track an individual’s whereabouts by creating hundreds of different “ghost” drivers inside of the application. As demonstrated to a
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The boom in smartphones among often careless users has made happy hunting for hackers, whose virus attacks and hijacking of unprotected mobiles are multiplying, experts warn. Security analysts and companies at this week’s Mobile World Congress, a top wireless telecom fair in Barcelona, Spain, said phone makers and users must be on guard to stop hackers getting into your pocket.
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With hackers seemingly running rampant online and millions of users compromised, efforts for stronger online identity protection – mainly using biometrics – are gaining momentum. Biometrics, which can include fingerprints, iris scans, facial or voice recognition and other methods, got a major boost with Apple’s introduction of its iPhones with Touch ID. Samsung followed with its own fingerprint scanner and
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Last week, U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron asked for the U.S government’s help in preventing companies like Facebook and Google from encrypting messages, but Defense One technology editor Patrick Tucker says this approach to cyber security from a governmental perspective “borders on schizophrenic.” As part of HuffPost Live’s continued coverage of the 2015 World Economic Forum, Tucker spoke with host
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