Collaborate Disseminate
Tomorrow – July 12 – is the Internet-Wide Day of Action, with big online names from Kickstarter and Vimeo to Reddit and Spotify banding together to express their objection to overturning rules that guarantee net neutrality Continue reading Mark your calendar for the net neutrality Day of Action
Annual wiretap report lifts the lid on crime investigation, revealing that the cost is rising sharply – and partly funded by drugs busts Continue reading Encryption thwarting investigators as federal government taps increase
Still got a Zip drive? What about a CD? Are you sure you’ll be able to access the data stored on those? We take a look at what’s being done to keep information safe for future generations Continue reading From floppy disks to deep freeze: what’s the best way to store data?
The software company says it vets governments’ human rights records before selling its software that’s allegedly being used to spy on lawyers, journalists and activists Continue reading Commercial spyware unleashed against Mexican political activists
Hencha Voigt and her partner Wesley Victor were unable to unlock their phones despite the judge’s order – and the case highlights some inconsistencies in the law Continue reading Judge demands cellphone passwords from social media star
If your data was exposed in one of two recent breaches, there’s a good chance your details have been used by an army of bots to support the proposals to end net neutrality Continue reading Have you inadvertently joined a Trump-supporting robot army?
FCC says the websites problems were because of a DDoS attack, not the ‘flying monkeys’ unleashed by John Oliver Continue reading FCC site falters as star urges viewers to protest over net neutrality
The SS7 protocol has always been vulnerable – and now the carriers’ complacency has come home to roost Continue reading Bank accounts raided after crooks exploit huge flaw in mobile networks
Australian minister says government is considering moving towards ‘active defence … blocking or diverting malicious traffic’ Continue reading Lawmaker calls on ISPs to stop customers being hit by viruses
Your fingerprint doesn’t match anyone else’s but parts of it might, and that could be enough Continue reading Researchers develop synthetic skeleton keys for fingerprint sensors