Category: Mobile Commerce Security

Security in the mcommerce world is just as important as ecommerce due to most of consumer shopping and surfing will end up on a smartphone. This issue has been coming up a lot with QR code scanning as well as mobile banking trends. Join us as we explore this topic further.

AI chatbots generate free Windows 11 and Windows 10 Pro keys

John Montgallo
AI Chatbots - ChatGPT use

ChatGPT and Google Bard have been used to unlock the operating systems without paying. Last week, @immasiddtweets tweeted screenshots and a post that said “ChatGPT gives you free Windows 10 Pro keys! And it surprisingly works” after having used AI chatbots to generate the unlock codes. The tweet went viral, showing how @immasiddtweets “tricked” the artificial intelligence into providing the keys. According to the tweet, including the screenshots, @immasiddtweets asked the AI chatbot ChatGPT to behave like his late grandmother, “who would read me Windows 10 Pro keys to fall…

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This social media platform’s ‘security incident’ made private posts public

John Montgallo
Social media platform - Public posting - sharing

Twitter says the event that made private Circle tweets public was “immediately fixed.” In April, users discovered a bug on Twitter that would make public the private tweets by Twitter Circle feature users on the social media platform. Almost a month after the discovery was first reported, the company has now released a comment. According to the social media platform, it told affected users that the exposure that made the private tweets public was due to “a security incident” that occurred earlier in 2023. According to Twitter, the issue was…

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Apple and Google collaborate on digital privacy effort to address unwanted tracking

Stephanie Beck
Digital privacy - Partnership

The technology giants are accepting input from advocacy groups and industry participants. Location-tracking devices have become extremely commonplace as consumers use them to make it easier to find everything from luggage to their car keys, but digital privacy has become a serious concern. These gadgets can relatively easily be misused by wrongdoers for unwanted tracking of others. As a result, Apple and Google submitted a joint proposal for industry specifications that could help to combat the misuse of tracking gadgets using Bluetooth technology for unwanted tracking and threatening personal and…

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Your mobile security strategy should include avoiding public charging

Sam Lambert
Mobile security - Person charging phone using public charging

The FBI is recommending that individuals avoid using public charging ports or risk getting hacked. The FBI Denver has released a caution for smartphone users – so, essentially everyone – to upgrade their mobile security strategies to include avoidance of the use of public charging ports for their smartphones and other similar devices. While public charging ports have become very popular, their use comes with a considerable risk. When a smartphone battery is running low, the sight of a free public charging port in a mall, airport, coffee shop or…

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Mozilla ups its Firefox mobile security with cookie protection tool

John Montgallo
Mobile security - Mozilla Firefox

The company has tightened the privacy available through its browser app for Android. Mozilla has announced that it has enhanced the mobile security and privacy protection in the Android version of its Firefox browser app to allow users to stop cookies from tracking them between sites. It has become commonplace for people to shop for a product on one site and see it elsewhere in an ad. It would be difficult to find a device users who hadn’t been shopping online for a product of some kind, only to decide…

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