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New Facebook Privacy Controls, Apple iOS Patching Mistake, MoviePass Data Breach
You’re listening to the Shared Security Podcast, exploring the trust you put in people, apps, and technology…with your host, Tom Eston. In episode 83 for August 26th 2019: Facebook announces new off-Facebook activity privacy controls, how Apple made everyone’s iOS device vulnerable, and details on the massive MoviePass data breach.
This week I read yet another news article that talked about how thieves stole a Tesla in about 30-seconds using what is known as a relay or key fob attack. The attack works by using a device to amplify the signal from the car thinking that the key fob is nearby. Once the device relays the signal back to the car, the door is unlocked and the thief can steal the car. This is also an issue for other car manufactures, it’s really any car that uses a technology called PKES or Passive Keyless Entry and Start. Besides disabling this feature, the easiest way to prevent this attack is to put your key fob in a faraday bag which is designed to block all wireless signals making an attack like this completely preventable. And if you want the finest faraday bags available, you’ll want to use one from Silent Pocket. In fact, Silent Pocket offers a key fob guard which is made to specifically to prevent a relay attack. Order one today by visiting silentpocket.com and receive 15% off your order using discount code “sharedsecurity” during checkout.
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Ever wonder how certain products that you were thinking about buying mysteriously show up as ads on your Facebook newsfeed? Is there some black magic going on here? Well it’s not black magic and is actually one of the many ways that Facebook serves you more ads. Last week Facebook announced that they are finally implementing new privacy controls around what they are calling “Off-Facebook Activity”. Off-Facebook activity is data that is collected from websites and apps about your online searches. This can only happen when websites and apps use the Facebook login feature or have enabled Facebook’s business tools. These sites and services send certain details about that activity to Facebook so that they can in turn show you ads about those specific products. This is why you see ads show up in Facebook for items or products that you’ve been searching for on the Internet. Now this is how off-Facebook activity works. Say you’re searching for a new backpack on a site that sells backpacks. That site can send information about your device, what was searched for and other details so that Facebook can match up that device to your Facebook account. This in turn sends you an ad about that backpack or company. Facebook has always said that the companies utilizing this feature do not get your personal information like name or email address. All they know about you is a unique device identifier which allows Facebook to match your device to your account.
Now for the first time ever, Facebook is allowing more control over this data and is even allowing you to delete and disconnect this data from your Facebook account. Facebook will be slowly rolling this feature out to uses over the coming months. These new privacy settings will give you the ability to see a summary of information other apps and websites have sent Facebook, disconnect this information from your account, and choose to disconnect future off-Facebook activity, or just for specific apps and websites. So if you disconnect all this d
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