UPDATE: I have been contacted by Avast to clarify this SMS issue and I’m working with them to fix this. I think I found the bug and, if proven, it’s something really funny. I hope I’ll be able to update you soon as I am leaving to EUSecWest conference. UPDATE2: It was not the bug [...]
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avast Mobile Security is sending SMS without user knowledge
Posted by m-sec.net on September 15th, 2012
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About privacy and data protection (II)
Posted by m-sec.net on August 6th, 2011
As stated in my previous post, there are other legal ways you can find some special private data about someone else. 1. You call yourself “Carrefour“, you put up a marketing campaign and ask your customers to fill in a form where one of the fields is the Numerical Personal Code. Of course, you are [...]
About privacy and data protection (I)
Posted by m-sec.net on July 25th, 2011
Today I’m going to start a topic about privacy. Even though I’ll write about some experiences I had in Romania, I’m pretty sure this can be applied to other countries too. The main subject will be about how hard is to find someone’s Numerical Personal Code (how it’s called in Romania) or Social Security Number [...]
