Collaborate Disseminate
Some financially-motivated hackers go straight for the money, but others take a more circuitous route, going after information that they can use for profit. That’s what criminals convicted this week did until they were caught in 2015, earning millions … Continue reading Hackers break into newswire services, trade on what they find
Another online fitness tracking app – Polar Flow – is giving up sensitive information. But this time, it’s revealing the names and home locations of government personnel. Continue reading Privates on parade: fitness tracker app reveals sensitive user details
SD cards – those tiny devices that go into your camera or tablet – may be small, but they can hold a lot of revealing information. Continue reading What sensitive data is lurking on your old SD card?
The Pirate Bay seems to have returned to mining cryptocurrency in its visitors’ browsers without asking. Continue reading The Pirate Bay is plundering your CPU for cryptocash, again
Remember when privacy advocates used to worry about Google scanning your email? Well now, they have another problem on their hands: real people reading them. Continue reading Someone else is reading your Gmails
Just because a document isn’t digital doesn’t mean it doesn’t contain metadata. Printed documents often have their own hidden details, and now German researchers have developed tools to help you scrub them clean. Continue reading Tool scrubs hidden tracking data from printed documents
A former high-ranking lawyer at US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is going to jail for four years after stealing the identities of US immigrants. Continue reading Immigrant identity thief and ICE lawyer gets four years
In another entry for the ‘what were they thinking’ file, a second former Equifax executive has been charged with insider trading in advance of the company’s massive data breach announcement last September. Continue reading Second former Equifax staffer charged with insider trading
Privacy advocates are concerned that tech giants are using design patterns that discourage us from exercising our rights to privacy. Continue reading Facebook and Google accused of manipulating us with “dark patterns”
After a spate of attacks on industrial control systems (ICS), the US this week officially recognized the need to secure them with a new bill. Continue reading US legislators put industrial control system security on the map