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TikTok is Chinese spyware!

24 Wednesday Aug 2022

Posted by Dagny Gromer in Misc.

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TikTok can track its users’ every tap, keyboard input, and keystroke through its iOS in-app browser. 

Ex-Google Engineer and privacy researcher, Felix Krause published a report on Thursday which revealed that when TikTok users enter a website through a link on the iOS app, TikTok inserts code that can monitor much of their activity on these outside websites. 

The tracking would make it possible for TikTok to capture a user’s credit card information or password.

https://petapixel.com/2022/08/24/tiktoks-in-app-browser-contains-code-that-follows-your-every-move/

TikTok spyware follows everything you do, can capture passwords! Remember TikTok belongs to the Chinese communist party and Chinese military.

If you have this piece of sh*t on your phone, consider deleting it asap.

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More on the latest hacks

18 Friday Dec 2020

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“This is looking like it’s the worst hacking case in the history of America,” the official said. “They got into everything.”

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/hack-us-grave-threat-cybersecurity-agency-74795380

Let’s see how many senior managers get fired over this, and who if any get criminally charged. My guess – NO ONE.

Prime Numbers, and how they function as the basis for securing your computer communications

20 Sunday Dec 2015

Posted by Dagny Gromer in Computers

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I stumbled on a very easy to understand article that describes how prime numbers (those evenly divisible only by themselves and 1) form the basis for secure computer communications. You’ve seen https:  vs http: in URL’s and probably know the added “s” means secure. Maybe you know that SSL means secure sockets layer, which sends and receives information in an encrypted form. And once in a while you might see a warning that a web site has a problem with its security certificate. Do you know that all this is based on the huge amount computational work needed to factor a large prime number?

Read more here: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/219570-what-are-prime-numbers-and-why-are-they-so-vital-to-modern-life

The link above explains how all this works, without using any math.

Chinese Hackers Steal Personal Info on 4.5 Million from Obamacare Website

20 Wednesday Aug 2014

Posted by Dagny Gromer in Computers, Federal Fail

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computer security, Federal Fail, hackers, obamacare

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/08/hackers-steal-records-on-4-5-million-patients-from-healthcare-system/

Yet another Federal Fail. Personal info on 4.5 million people stolen from Obamacare website.

A healthcare system spanning 29 states announced on Monday that cybercriminals operating from China stole information on approximately 4.5 million patients, including names, birth dates, and Social Security numbers.

If you are on, or applied for, Obamacare you might be one of the victims. Do you think Obama shares your pain?

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