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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Surviving Stalkerware

ForAllSecure

The FTC claims that spy phones secretly harvested and shared data on people's physical movements phone news online activities through a hidden hack. Vamosi: So let's first ground ourselves in a common definition of what is and what is not stalkerware. So one of the definitions in that definition of stalkerware.

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Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests to HTTPS

Troy Hunt

Data Source. Because he's the sharing kind of guy, Scott also just released all the data from his crawler via a new site at crawler.ninja : If people want to go and pull the same data as we've used here, go and check out what Scott's published. I started by setting the domain's country per Alexa's definition.

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Is India's Aadhaar System Really "Hack-Proof"? Assessing a Publicly Observable Security Posture

Troy Hunt

billion locals' data. It's operating in an era of increasingly large repositories of personal data held by both private companies and governments alike. Sooner or later, big repositories of data will be abused. But claiming the service is "hack-proof", that's something I definitely have an issue with.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Reverse Engineering Smart Meters

ForAllSecure

Similar initiatives were undertaken in Australia, India and Japan, all with the intent to roll these devices out within a relatively short amount of time. Smart Meters provide the data to support a cleaner future, showing how much energy is being used and how much this will cost you. I logged all that data.