Privacy About Canada's COVID Alert application Disclaimer: First of all, I'm not writing on behalf of any entities involved in the development of the COVID Alert application. This is my take as a software engineer with
Privacy OPSEC tips for the general public It's always a good idea to properly configure your computer and smartphone, know how to securely communicate with others and how to read, write and share content while protecting your
Privacy Is the Guatemalan government asking citizens for their location to show them ads? On Tuesday March 24th 2020, the president of Guatemala Alejandro Giammattei announced that his government was releasing a mobile application named Alerta Guate. This application would have 3 main features:
Privacy Advice for Targets of Mobile Spyware After publishing a blog post on spouseware, I started receiving many interesting messages about people claiming they were targets of spying attempts. Some of them had doubts about their partners
Privacy What checkm8 means for stalkerware on iOS On Friday, September 27th 2019 many of us on the mobile security community were surprised with the news of a SecureROM vulnerability disclosed on Twitter by @axi0mX. axi0mX described it
Privacy Analyzing iOS Stalkerware Applications Stalkerware (a.k.a. Spouseware) applications are invasive applications that an individual installs on a target's device (usually their partner) to spy on them, snooping in as much data as
Android Mobile App Sec Assemble One of the reasons why I write blog posts about mobile app sec is for future me. I don't have a good memory so these posts help me refresh techniques
Mobile Who's collecting analytics data from mobile apps? I have the absolute pleasure and honour of being one of the beta testers of the GuardianApp. In an upcoming post I'll be explaining in more detail how it helps