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BlackFog on Android not working with Samsung Galaxy
When using BlackFog on Android and certain Samsung Galaxy S8 and S9 phones the Internet connection appears to be broken and the Google Play store no longer seems to operate normally.
Privacy is All About the Data
The world has moved to a mobile device based economy, with focus around data creation, storage, cloud servers and information sharing. The idea of losing your device has become secondary to the information that is stored on it. We discuss the evolution of BlackFog and why outbound data monitoring is so important.
Protecting Online Privacy
Most security products focus on resolving problems based on known vulnerabilities and inbound traffic whereas data and identity theft protection is concerned specifically with data loss prevention. We discuss the different types of defense mechanisms available and contrast BlackFog's approach.
BlackFog Mobile Device Security
Mobile devices now total 5.1 billion users, penetrate 68% of the world population and represent 52% of global web traffic. More than half of these are ‘smart’ devices with Internet access. iOS now represents 1.3 billion active devices. It is no wonder that cyber criminals specifically target mobile devices.
BlackFog for Android ChangeLog
BlackFog Release Notes for Android
Android not blocking threats when using Chrome browser
When using the BlackFog on more recent Android versions (8.0 or later) you may notice that not all advertising or data collection activities are blocked as they should be.
News 2019
BlackFog News 2019
Verify that you have sufficient privileges to install system services
If the user account has been modified by a system administrator the installer may fail to create and execute the service under you local account.
How to Allow Full Disk Access when using macOS Mojave
When using macOS Mojave with BlackFog it is important to allow "Full Disk Access" to the application in order for it to correctly detect and remove malware.
BlackFog for iOS ChangeLog
BlackFog Privacy Release Notes for iOS
Software Update fails
When running software update from the Help menu the system returns with a message saying that the software signatures don't match.
Facebook Data Privacy Protection
With the recent revelation that Facebook tracks you whether or not you are a Facebook customer means that people had no option to opt out of this massive data collection exercise.