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Safari 14 Will Let You Log in To Websites With Your Face or Finger
With Safari on iOS 14, MacOS Big Sur and iPadOS 14, you’ll be able to log in to websites using Apple’s Face ID and Touch ID biometric authentication. That’s a powerful endorsement for technology called FIDO — Fast Identity Online — that’s paving the way to a future without passwords. From a report: Apple disclosed the biometric authentication support in Safari…
New exoplanet system is ‘mirror image’ of Earth and sun
Researchers from Germany and the US have discovered an exoplanet less than twice the size of Earth orbiting at about the same distance from its star, making it the closest analog to the Earth-sun system known so far. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/exoplanet-kepler-160-mirror-image-earth-sun…
Finding Serious ‘Sign In with Apple’ Hole Earns Security Researcher a $100,000 Bug Bounty
An anonymous reader quotes Forbes: When Apple announced Sign in with Apple at the June 2019 worldwide developers conference, it called it a “more private way to simply and quickly sign into apps and websites.” The idea was, and still is, a good one: replace social logins that can be used to collect personal data with a secure authentication system backed…
Ask Slashdot: Why is Microsoft Blocking Its Own Server Pages?
Long-time Slashdot reader lpq writes: I followed a link that pointed at a Microsoft security advisory about “.lnk” files. The original link, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/technet/security/advisory/2286198.mspx, produced this message: Your request has been blocked. This may be due to several reasons. 1. You are using a proxy that is known to send automated requests to Microsoft. Check with your network administrator if there is…
North Dakota’s COVID-19 App Has Been Sending Data To Foursquare and Google
The official COVID-19 contact-tracing app for the state of North Dakota, designed to detect whether people have potentially been exposed to the coronavirus, sends location data and a unique user identifier to Foursquare — and other data to Google and a bug-tracking company — according to a new report from smartphone privacy company Jumbo Privacy. From a report: The app, called…
Austrian Citizen Files GDPR Legal Complaint Over Android Advertising ID
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: Privacy pressure group Noyb has filed a legal complaint against Google on behalf of an Austrian citizen, claiming the Android Advertising ID on every Android device is “personal data” as defined by the EU’s GDPR and that this data is illegally processed. Based in Vienna, Austria, Noyb is a nonprofit founded by…
Google Faces Privacy Complaint for Tracking Users in EU
Google faces a data-protection complaint from Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems amid concerns it unlawfully monitors users and passes on the “tracking ID” to advertisers. From a report: Schrems’s campaign group Noyb on Wednesday filed a complaint with the Austrian data protection authority, accusing Google of tracking users of Android phones through a unique ID that “allows Google and countless third-parties…
Apple Announces New 13-inch MacBook Pro With Magic Keyboard
Sooner than expected, Apple has announced a new 13-inch MacBook Pro with a Magic Keyboard. It features optional Intel 10th Gen processors and starts at $1,299. In one sense, it is a minor spec-bump upgrade for the existing lineup of 13-inch MacBook Pros. But it also represents the end of an era: Apple no longer sells any new laptops with the…
Apple Will Make It Easier To Unlock Your iPhone While Wearing a Face Mask
Face ID was a great idea — until large swathes of the world were forced to wear face masks, rendering it largely useless. Apple has apparently heard our pain. From a report: Users are reporting a subtle new feature in the latest developer version of iOS 13.5 that will make it easier to unlock your iPhone without having to take off…