Most people turn on mobile push notifications and then promptly forget about them. However, it turns out that if you’re up to no good, those notifications could get you thrown in prison. The ...

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A new report from the National Consumers League (NCL) is sounding the alarm on how sports betting companies use smartphone push notifications to aggressively market their services, raising concerns ...

Numerous iOS apps are using background processes triggered by push notifications to collect user data about devices, potentially allowing the creation of fingerprinting profiles used for tracking.

Cybercriminals have a new, user-friendly tool for turning your browser alerts into a vector for phishing attacks. "Matrix Push" is slick, it's pretty, and it's about as easy to use as any commercial ...