March 15, 2018 9:59 pm
Published by Malcolm Rosenfeld
Viral social media challenges have become especially popular among teens. Many of these trends are harmless, other than the potential embarrassment they cause in hindsight years down the road. The Ice Bucket Challenge actually ended up raising millions of dollars for ALS research. Others, such as the Mannequin Challenge or the Harlem Shake, were based in good fun. However, not all of these viral challenges are so innocent. Consider, for example, the “Tide Pod Challenge,” which began in December as a Twitter meme involving dares to eat the pods, and then a challenge that became popular on Twitter and Facebook,... View Article
March 8, 2018 9:58 pm
Published by Malcolm Rosenfeld
If you somehow didn’t already know or suspect it, let’s just put this right out in the open—your cell phone provider is selling as much information about you as it can, including your vehicle location information. If you take a close look at your cell phone contract, you’ll likely find some language that says something like, “We do not sell your personal information.” This is in just about every Terms of Service provided to cellular customers, but this is a misleading statement. The company will not sell information determined by law to be “personal information,” such as phone numbers, addresses... View Article
February 22, 2018 9:58 pm
Published by Malcolm Rosenfeld
More devices and items than ever before are making use of cloud technology. In fact, the technology as a whole is estimated to be worth about $200 billion, and asset tracking is one example of a business solution that uses the technology that has become especially popular. This software allows companies to track, control and monitor assets from a single centralized space, usually located on a cloud-based server. The benefits of such software are numerous. Asset tracking allows businesses to enable maintenance tracking features. This means the manufacturer can schedule alerts for maintenance needs based on its guidelines, or knowledge... View Article
February 9, 2018 9:03 pm
Published by Malcolm Rosenfeld
The rise of GPS tracking devices has created a common question among parents: should I track my child with GPS devices? There are some obvious benefits to doing so. Parents simply cannot always keep their children within eyesight. GPS technology allows them to follow their children’s location wherever they go. They can make sure little children don’t get lost while out in public in crowded spaces. They can track teenagers’ cars, both in terms of location and speed. Of course, there is also the question of how much is too much when it comes to a parent’s ability to monitor... View Article
February 2, 2018 9:03 pm
Published by Malcolm Rosenfeld
The login credentials and other potentially sensitive personal information from more than 500,000 vehicle tracking devices were leaked online, likely as a result of insufficient protection of the data. The records belonged to SVR Tracking, and their exposure was discovered by security researchers from Kromtech. According to these researchers, the leak happened because of a mistake in an Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 bucket. As a result, a total of 540,642 account IDs and passwords were leaked. Kromtech said in its report that the total number of devices affected could actually be quite larger, as many clients or resellers were... View Article
