This is the Shared Security Weekly Blaze for April 2, 2018 sponsored by Security Perspectives – Your Source for Tailored Security Awareness Training and Assessment Solutions and Silent Pocket. This episode was hosted by Tom Eston.
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This is your Shared Security Weekly Blaze for April 2nd 2018 with your host, Tom Eston.
In this week’s episode: Facebook’s Privacy Firestorm, the MyFitnessPal Data Breach and Ramifications of the CLOUD and FOSTA Bills
The Shared Security Podcast is sponsored by Silent Pocket. With their patented Faraday cage product line of phone cases, wallets and bags you can block all wireless signals which will make your devices instantly untrackable, unhackable and undetectable. Visit silent-pocket.com for more details.
Hi everyone, I’m Tom Eston, Co-host of the Shared Security podcast. Welcome to the Shared Security Weekly Blaze where we update you on the top 3 security and privacy topics from the week. These weekly podcasts are published every Monday and are 15 minutes or less quickly giving you “news that you can use”.
Shout outs this week to @Yohun, @zroone, @StrongArmSecure, and @CamilleEsq on Twitter as well as @vanishedvpn and @newcybersource on Instagram and Lou, Shawn, Jun, and Andrew on Facebook for commenting, liking and sharing our posts on social media. Thank you for your support of the show!
Since the news broke about Facebook and the Cambridge Analytica controversy the other week, there has been a firestorm of information coming out about Facebook’s data harvesting practices as well as new tools and information about Facebook’s privacy settings which are in response to Facebook’s recent privacy challenges. For example, Mozilla the creator of the Firefox web browser released a new browser extension called “Facebook Container” which lets you isolate your Facebook activity to just Facebook.com which will limit the amount of tracking that Facebook can do while you browse the web. Keep in mind, when using a browser extension like this any sites that you “sign-in” using Facebook will no longer work.
In other Facebook news, details also came out about Facebook collecting phone call metadata from Android phones that have the Facebook mobile app installed. This data included names, phone numbers and the length of each call made or received on the device. This access is given during the installation of the Facebook app which asks for permission to read contacts off of the device. The reason Facebook does this is so your contact data can be used to find and match more Facebook friends for you. Apparently older versions of Android allowed access to call and message logs in addition to contacts on your device. The issue has been fixed in newer versions of Android but if you had the Facebook app installed before these updates were made, the Facebook app would still be able to access this data. It’s important to note that Apple iOS has never allowed apps to access call logs and other call data. So if you have an Apple iOS device, you’re safe…for now. Check out our show notes for instructions on how to remove these permissions if you have the Facebook app installed on your Android device.
Given all the news about Facebook recently, and where your data may have been collected, you may be thinking it’s time to re-evaluate your us
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