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Ambient Light Sensors to Malware Threats: MIT Unveils Smartphone Privacy Risks Amid Market Turbulence

HaystackID on 4/24/2024

Editor's Note: In a significant study from MIT's CSAIL, researchers have unveiled vulnerabilities in smartphone ambient light sensors, highlighting them as potential channels for privacy breaches. This discovery underscores...more

T-Mobile Clarifies Facts of Security Incident in Press Release

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 8/19/2021

There has been a flurry of reporting in the past few days on the T-Mobile customer data compromise, with allegations that the compromise affected up to 100 million customers. ...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - January 2019 #3

Robinson & Cole LLP on 1/21/2019

Cybercriminals have launched a new campaign that not only requires the victim to pay a ransom to have their data decrypted, but when the victim is directed to a PayPal account to pay the ransom and get the decryption key to...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - August 2018 #4

Robinson & Cole LLP on 8/27/2018

A new ransomware, dubbed “Ryuk,” has surfaced in the last few weeks and is said to be targeting large organizations in the United States. The attackers behind Ryuk have reportedly made more than $640,000 in just two weeks,...more

Privacy Tip #130 – Smartphones Targeted by Dark Caracal Attack

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 3/15/2018

There is a global malware campaign that is targeting mobile devices across the world. It is called Dark Caracal, which is believed to be sourced in Beirut by the Lebanese General Security Directorate. ...more

Privacy TIp #86 - Android Users Vulnerable to Malware through Apps

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 5/4/2017

University of Michigan researchers have discovered that hundreds of applications in Google Play turn Android phones into a server that allow the user to connect the phone directly to a PC and leave open insecure ports...more

Android smartphones Stagefright engine vulnerable

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 8/11/2015

It is being reported that 95% of all Android smartphones are vulnerable to being hacked with a text message, which is being called the “heartbleed for mobile.” According to security experts, the vulnerability exploits the...more

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