Twitter politely asks you to protect its targeted ad dollars in new iOS 14.5 prompt

As part of iOS 14.5, Apple’s App Tracking Transparency forces developers to ask permission for something they used to be able to do for free: track iOS users. Today, Twitter is joining the ranks of other developers and adding a prompt that asks users to enable tracking on iOS (via MacRumors). Twitter’s main justification for…

Android Adware ‘Hermit’ Found in Focused Assaults

Amora R Jelo3 months ago08 mins

Researchers have found an enterprise-grade Android household of modular spy ware dubbed Hermit conducting surveillance on residents of Kazakhstan by their authorities. Lookout Risk Lab researchers – who noticed the spy ware – surmise that the secretive Italian spy ware vendor RCS Lab developed it and say Hermit was beforehand deployed by Italian authorities in…