We all appreciate a good freebie, especially when it comes to the apps that power our daily lives. From connecting with distant friends to finding the best deals, our smartphones are brimming with tools that come at no apparent monetary ...
For millions of us, interacting with AI chatbots has become a daily routine. We ask questions, brainstorm ideas, draft emails, and sometimes, perhaps unknowingly, share sensitive information. There’s an unspoken understanding that when we delete a chat, it’s gone for ...
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google won’t intentionally reveal the name or phone number associated with an account, but a series of vulnerabilities made it possible for attackers to get just that. The company’s account recovery tools were hijacked ...
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Have you ever shopped at an online store once, and then found yourself dealing with a constant influx of marketing spam emails for weeks and even months? Virtually every online service wants me to create ...
In the earlier days of the internet, the invention of cookies was a pretty cool feature. It allowed websites to remember your last visit, making it easier to pick up where you left off. However, these days, cookies have gotten ...
Summary Android’s sandboxing typically keeps apps from sharing sensitive identifiers, but a loophole allows apps to subversively bypass privacy measures. Meta and Yandex tracker embeds have been discovered exploiting localhost connections to send cookie data to apps without permission. Google ...
Summary A recent T-Life app update adds a new screen recording tool for troubleshooting app issues, and it’s automatically enabled. The recorder only operates in the app, won’t record sensitive information, and can be easily disabled if unwanted. Separate from ...
We store everything from conversations to photos on our smartphones, so it’s vital to ensure our data is safe at all times. A good way to do this is by regularly inspecting a few parameters and changing relevant settings on ...
TL;DR IMSI catchers, or “Stingrays,” pretend to be cell towers in order to gather data on nearby phones. So far, it’s been very difficult to know if you’ve been a victim of IMSI-catcher monitoring. The EFF’s new Rayhunter project uses ...
Imagine spotting your personal information in the Google Search results. If that sounds frustrating and scary, you are among us. Google seems aware of that, which is why it announced the “Results about you” tool. This tool detects users’ personal ...
