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Apple is encouraging its smartphone and tablet users to use data sparingly in the future. But this is also possible - hidden - on Android devices. Advertising has been tracking smartphone users for years, often unnoticed, across many apps. An individual number enables advertising companies to play personalized ads across websites and apps. This "tracking" is the technology behind the much-lamented phenomenon of once-searched goods showing up again and again in different ad formats. Apple's current decision to actively inform users of its iPhones about this in the future is only now making many users aware of the generous use of data on their smartphones. The iOS system now automatically asks users whether they want to allow advertising tracking for new apps. Apple is thus sharpening its image as a data protector. However, data collection has been prevented for years - not only on Apple's iPhones, but also on the more widespread devices with the Android operating syste...

 An unnamed data miner has now shown how easy it is to obtain personal and chat data from the advertised "secure messenger" Telegram. The Twitter user Datenliebe is data mining on Telegram. He is trying to extract as much personal and conversation data from the service as possible. According to the Twitter feed, the user's activity seems to be concentrated mainly in the camp of Corona critics. Most recently, Datenliebe had reached out to T-Online editors to offer his insights. The "data hunter" - as T-Online calls him - also claims to have already provided information to the BBC. T-Online does not know the user. The contact was via the messenger Threema. Telegram groups easy to read What Datenliebe has to tell may scare a large number of Telegram users - namely all those who are active in public and closed groups and feel their identity is protected there. After all, Telegram itself always emphasizes that it is a secure messenger. In fact, this is only true for ...

 A small Australian security company plays a major role in the thriller about the San Bernardino bombers who killed 14 people and lost their own lives in the process. In focus - an iPhone 5C. It was the most serious terrorist attack since 9/11 and it occurred in the small town of San Bernardino in the US state of California. On December 2, 2015, city employee Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik shot indiscriminately at a nonprofit facility for people with disabilities during a Christmas party, killing 14 people and injuring 21 others, some seriously. Perpetrators are killed, leaving behind an iPhone 5C with no unlocking capability The perpetrators initially managed to escape, but were then confronted near their home and died in a brief firefight. Two days later, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) declared the incident an act of terrorism. The perpetrators had pledged allegiance to the leaders and targets of the Islamic State terrorist organization on social m...

Many cell phone users are falling into an SMS trap set by online criminals, current figures from network operators show. Increasingly, the fraudulent messages are also spreading via messengers such as WhatsApp. Several thousand German customers of all major mobile providers are currently falling victim to dangerous spam text messages every day. Deutsche Telekom alone records an average of 7,000 to 8,000 customers a day who click on links contained in such text messages and infect their phones with malware. The figures come from analyses by the company's IT security experts, as a Telekom spokesperson explained when asked. The experts also observe that attackers have increasingly tried to spread the spam messages via messengers such as WhatsApp or Telegram in recent days. Often, the text messages pretend to come from parcel delivery companies. Instead of information about a delivery status, the links lead users to hijacked websites where users of Android devices are asked to download...

A security vulnerability in Google Chrome is currently being exploited by cyber criminals. Malware could land on your PC through it. Read here how you can protect yourself. The Google Chrome browser is currently struggling with some security vulnerabilities. In a blog post , Google warns about a total of seven vulnerabilities, with the majority of these gaps being classified as a "high" threat to users. The vulnerabilities have been fixed in the latest version of Chrome for Windows, Linux and macOS. If you have Chrome version 90.0.4430.85 installed, it can no longer be exploited. If you have an older version of the browser installed, you should update urgently. You can find the download of the new version below these lines. Smartphone users do not have to be afraid of the security vulnerability. Google has not had to take any security measures here for the time being. The security vulnerability probably remained undiscovered by cyber criminals for the time being. So far, noth...

Ransomware attacks will not only become more numerous in 2021, but also cause greater damage per extortion attack. Basically, ransomware is nothing new and has been part of everyday life for companies, organizations and public institutions for many years. However, the topic is still in the headlines because the impact of these cyberattacks is enormous. By encrypting IT environments, this form of malware causes major damage worldwide. This includes data loss or irreparable damage to data. Even paying a ransom sometimes does not prevent the disaster. In the past year 2020, new and creative ransomware schemes appeared around the world. These included, for example, double blackmail, "as-a-service" attacks, as well as TrickBot and Emotet, and many other impairments. And there is no end in sight to this trend. Industry experts predict even more sophisticated and damaging attacks in 2021. According to them, ransomware attacks will not only become more numerous in 2021, but also caus...

More and more cell phones are receiving SMS messages, for example for tracking shipments, via which the banking Trojan FluBot is installed. The BSI urges caution. For days now, users of smartphones and other cell phones have been receiving an increasing number of short messages asking them to click on a link. The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has identified a "smishing" wave (SMS phishing) behind this, which is used to scam access data via fake messages. Currently, the cell phone messages contain a link behind which the Android malware program FluBot is hidden in most of the currently observed cases. Malware app for Android, phishing websites for iOS This banking Trojan, which attempts to spy on confidential data and tap into apps for online account management or custody account management, has been circulating since around November 2020, according to the BSI. The perpetrators pretend, for example, that the recipients of the SMS will soon receive a pack...

Users of the social media app Clubhouse have apparently been affected by an attack. 1.3 million data records are at stake. An SQL database containing 1.3 million scraped Clubhouse user data has surfaced on a hacker forum, reports the online magazine Cybernews . The leaked data of Clubhouse users included names, social media profile names and other details, the report said. The data could be used for phishing attacks or other social engineering attacks, according to Cybernews. The report does not say whether passwords are also among the data being fished. Clubhouse is a popular audio social media app that is accessible only to invited users. Using virtual rooms, users can arrange to discuss topics and then hold them like a conference call, with moderators able to bring participants onto a virtual stage so they can not only listen but also contribute speeches.

Google is currently facing a lawsuit from a data protection activist. He accuses the software giant of illegally tracking Android users with advertising IDs without their own consent. The Viennese data protection activist Max Schrems has filed a lawsuit against Google in France. He accuses the US tech giant of illegally tracking Android phone users without their consent. The Austrian data protection organization Noyb made the announcement on Wednesday, confirming a report in the British daily Financial Times. Smartphones running Google's Android operating system generate unique advertising IDs that allow Google and third-party vendors to track users' browsing behavior in order to target them with ads. In a complaint to the French data protection authority CNIL, Schrems' privacy organization Noyb argues that Google did not explicitly ask users for permission before creating and storing the advertising codes. These were "illegal operations." Noyb had previously supp...

According to a report, data on more than 500 million LinkedIn users is circulating on a hacker forum. The platform appeases: It is not a data leak in the strict sense. A few days after information on around 533 million Facebook members was discovered on the web, a hacker forum is again offering a data set with allegedly half a billion user data. The seller claims that the information comes from the career network LinkedIn, as reported by the specialist portal "Cybernews". LinkedIn stressed after an investigation on Friday night that it was not a data leak. As far as could be investigated so far, no private data had been stolen from accounts. Rather, only publicly available information had been tapped and compiled into the data set for sale, the company, which has been part of the Microsoft Group since 2016, said. According to "Cybernews," the seller of the alleged LinkedIn data will initially post only two million records online and auction off the full package. Li...

Data of over 500 million Facebook users, which originated from a leak in 2019, has recently resurfaced on the Internet. Since the leaked data also includes numerous cell phone numbers, many users are currently receiving intrusive SMS spam. Here's what you can do about it. Facebook can claim 1,000 times that the circulating data originates from an older leak and that the breach has long since been closed: The fact is that over 500 million data records of Facebook users have been offered by cybercriminals on the Internet in recent days. In addition to names, the data also includes cell phone numbers, locations, and in some cases birth dates and mail addresses. As it turns out, affected users from Germany are currently receiving more SMS spam messages. You can easily check whether your data has also been tapped. You can use the web app from Have I Been Pwned to search for your email address and, more recently, your cell phone number . As it turns out, there are significantly more mob...

The personal data of Facebook users worldwide has apparently been stolen. This is reported by several media . According to the report, they were posted on a hacker forum - and are now available to criminals. Phone numbers and personal data of hundreds of millions of Facebook users were published in a forum for hackers on Saturday. This was reported by several media . Although the data is said to be several years old, it poses a risk to those whose details became public. The releases reportedly include personal information of more than 533 million Facebook users from 106 countries, including more than 32 million records on users in the U.S., 11 million on users in the U.K. and 6 million on users in India. The records include phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, dates of birth and, in some cases, email addresses. The data, which has now surfaced, was reportedly discovered by cybercrime firm Hudson Rock. They could provide valuable information to criminals. It is conceivabl...