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Fragmentation likely to hinder Android P’s security chops

The Parallax

But even locking down a long-criticized Android privacy flaw won’t help the operating system beat its biggest security flaw: its own success. We’ve been trying to make Android just easier to patch,” Kleidermacher said at the conference. READ MORE ON ANDROID SECURITY. Sometimes to their chagrin.).

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How Wi-Fi router security has deteriorated since 2003

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And at the annual hacker conference ShmooCon on Saturday, CITL presented an update to that research, showing identical or similar weaknesses in 1,000 home and commercial Wi-Fi routers, across 6,000 firmware versions and 18 vendors, including highly rated devices from brands such as Asus, Belkin, Buffalo, D-Link, Linksys, and Netgear.

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RCS delivers new texting features—and old security vulnerabilities

The Parallax

RCS data is sent using an Internet address, which means that consumers whose mobile network providers support RCS (available on all four major U.S. RCS’ vulnerabilities can impact devices running Google’s Android mobile operating system, which currently account for about three-fourths of the world’s smartphones.

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Mighty Networks raises $50M to build a creator economy for the masses

TechCrunch

Users include established creators and brands such as YouTube star Adriene Mishler, Xprize and Singularity University founder Peter Diamandis, author Luvvie Ajayi Jones, comedian Amanda Seales, Girlboss founder Sophia Amoruso and brands such as the TED conference and wellness scheduling platform MINDBODY. million in new funding.

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‘Memsad’ software rot threatens to leak your digital secrets

The Parallax

At the Chaos Communication Congress in December , and then again on March 19 here at the CanSecWest conference, van Sprundel named a particular case of code rot—one that essentially enables hackers to pluck mission-critical digital secrets directly from the software—memsad, a pun on the “memset” function to clear memory.

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How conscious companies can thread IoT’s security and privacy needles

The Parallax

Could the secret to building Internet-connected devices that balance utility, safety, security, and privacy reside in the offices of Forcite, an upstart motorcycle helmet maker in Australia? READ MORE ON SECURING THE INTERNET OF THINGS. Time for a Department of the Internet of Things? Have a Tesla Model 3?

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Hourly Data Consumption of Popular Video Conferencing Applications

CableLabs

As video conference applications have become an integral part of our daily lives, we wanted to not only better understand the bandwidth usage as previously explored, but also the total data consumption of these applications. The data gathering scenario: 10 people, each on their individual laptops, participated in the conference under test.

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