Andrea Fortuna
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A recent report by The Pegasus Project, a consortium of non-profit organizations and various journalists, claimed to have discovered a leak of 50.000 phone numbers that likely belong to users who might be victims of the Pegasus spyware, developed by the Israeli technology firm NSO.

Amnesty International, part of the group, has released a tool to check if your phone has been affected, called Mobile Verification Toolkit, or MVT.

In this post we will look steps for analyze a iPhone using a Linux machine.

I recently happened to read a research, presented during the ACM WINTECH 2020 conference, related to IMSI Catchers and their exploitation for tracking users of mobile devices.

An academic research, conducted by Professor Douglas J. Leith from Trinity College at the University of Dublin, analyzed traffic originating from iOS and Android devices heading to Apple and Google servers at various stages of a phone’s operation, such as data shared, founding that Google collects around 20 times more telemetry data from Android devices than Apple from iOS.

There is no 100% anonymity on the internet.

Your Digital Footprint is everywhere on the web: it is in all the actions you do on keyboard and mouse, on every tap and swipe on our mobile phone.

The recent controversies related to new WhatsApp‘s Privacy Policy have lead many users to start looking for new alternatives.

Some privacy concerns about Apple Silicon and MacOs Big Sur.

The Wall Street Journal has published a post about a company called Anomaly Six LLC, that develop an SDK used by “more than 500 mobile applications“.

At the DEFCON virtual security conference, security researcher Yamila Levalle outlined how she was able to bypass biometric authentication for a number of different types of fingerprint scanners.

It’s a question that I’m often asked, from friends, colleagues and clients.

In a good article on Recode, Sara Morrison made a useful overview on trackers hidden in smartphone SDKs.