Collaborate Disseminate
Two former Wendy’s employees want to know what the company does with employee fingerprints collected by biometric clocks. Continue reading Wendy’s faces class action over collecting staff fingerprints
The EU justice commissioner said she’s out of patience. Also, she quit Facebook because it’s a “channel of dirt.” Continue reading Facebook faces sanctions if it drags its feet on data transparency
The Massachusetts State Police (MSP) accidentally spilled some of its opsec onto Twitter last week, uploading a screenshot that revealed browser bookmarks. Continue reading Police accidentally tweet bookmarks that reveal surveilled groups
It’s just a number to detect fraud, not a Black Mirror-esque score that’s going to rate us all as social misfits unworthy of wedding invitations. Continue reading iTunes is assigning you a ‘trust score’ based on emails and phone calls
The new preventative cybersecurity powers include potentially acting against countries considered friendly toward the US – a risky move, some say. Continue reading US military given the power to hack back/defend forward
The young men behind the powerful IoT device botnet have been working undercover with law enforcement since they were first fingered. Continue reading FBI wants to keep “helpful” Mirai botnet authors around
Another day, another poorly configured MongoDB database. Continue reading Here we Mongo again! Millions of records exposed by insecure database
A third party app can use Grindr’s distance data to pinpoint a users location down to a room within a house. Continue reading Years on, third party apps still exposing Grindr users’ locations
Millions of documents have been stolen from top UK universities and are being sold over WhatsApp for as little as £2. Continue reading Hackers selling research phished from universities on WhatsApp
New Mexico’s AG filed a lawsuit accusing a popular app maker, plus Google’s and Twitter’s ad platforms, of illegally collecting kids’ data. Continue reading 91 “child friendly” Android apps accused of exploitation