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.

The CEO of WhatsApp talking about the future of communication and privacy? Yes, in “virtual” TED-Talk!

Yesterday I’ve talked about a strange behavior in Brave Browser, which adds referral codes in URLs when users try to open a “partnered” site.

It appears so, even if you manually type the URL!

Eva Galperin is director of cybersecurity for the online security organization Electronic Frontier Foundation.

A research presented in 2019 by Jacob Leon Kröger and Philip Raschke, during the 33rd Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference, analyze technical and economical feasibility of eavesdropping on modern smartphones.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, one of the most respected associations for the protection of privacy and digital rights, that fights since its beginnings against abuses of digital technologies, has published a large article that takes stock of anti-pandemic tracking apps, with an excellent introduction to the basic concepts of this topic.