Collaborate Disseminate
The emails reportedly show Russia’s organizing Ukrainian separatists. The hack, if legit, shows Russian leaders are as vulnerable as others. Continue reading Ukrainian hackers ‘snatch huge email cache from Kremlin’
These biometric-baffling babies cost mere pennies. Just in time: Facebook’s said that users can’t stop it from using our biometrics. Continue reading Glasses make facial recognition think you’re a celebrity
Researchers found vulnerabilities, now fixed, that could have turned your crockpot into a launching pad for malicious JavaScript. Continue reading WeMo smart home devices can be used to spy on Android phones
Adam Mudd created the tool when he was only 15 and went on to make $385,000 from its sale and a DDoS-for-hire service. Continue reading Teen pleads guilty to creating DDoS tool used in 1.7 million attacks
It’s opt-in for now, but Admiral – one of the biggest car insurance companies in the UK – isn’t ruling out expanding the program. Continue reading Facebook halts plan to mine profiles for insurance quotes
An Ontario octogenarian has been caught up in Canada’s institution of new copyright infringement rules. Continue reading 86-year-old grandmother billed $5K, accused of pirating zombie game
A viral post prompting thousands of Facebook users to confound police assessments of protestors was based on a false claim that the police used Facebook to do that. Continue reading No, checking in via Facebook won’t help Standing Rock protestors
The privacy rights organization’s got you covered, from a facial recognition algorithm grid to a privacy badger. We had a few ideas too! Continue reading Scary security: Halloween costume ideas from the EFF and us
He broke into over 600 victims’ accounts and ran a modeling scam to get even more nude pics. Busy guy! Set up an app to automatically download entire iCloud backups. Continue reading Celeb nude photo thief Ryan Collins sentenced to 18 months in jail
Police only got numbers, not names, in a so-called tower dump, but what’s to stop them from correlating those numbers with other crimes? Continue reading Canadian police to text all phone numbers in vicinity of murder victim