Collaborate Disseminate
What a nightmare: your phone goes dead, and you can’t log into your bank account because it’s controlled by a hacker who’s draining you dry. Continue reading Europol busts up two SIM-swapping hacking rings
The IICSA report cited “unprecedented levels of depravity” and said that encryption is getting in the way of current screening. Continue reading Report calls for web pre-screening to end UK’s child abuse ‘explosion’
Concerns over cybersecurity risk and possible spying by China have already brought about bans from DHS, DoD, TSA, and the State Department. Continue reading Senate bill would ban TikTok from government phones
The bill, which would undercut Section 230 protections for online publishing, presents itself as a way to stop online child abuse. Continue reading EARN IT Act threatens end-to-end encryption
As of June 2019, CBP had processed more than 20 million travelers using facial recognition, civil rights group ACLU says. Continue reading Homeland Security sued over secretive use of face recognition
Both Google and Apple have removed at least some of the apps from the company, Sensor Tower. Continue reading Analytics firm’s VPN and ad-blocking apps are secretly grabbing user data
Necurs, one of the world’s biggest botnets, infected over 9 million computers worldwide. Continue reading Necurs zombie botnet disrupted by Microsoft
Started around 2013, the site claims to host over 24,000 active shops doing brisk business in stolen PII and hacking services. Continue reading FBI arrests alleged owner of Deer.io, top market for stolen accounts
The US is expected to press for a retrial in the high-stakes trial of Joshua Schulte, suspected of raiding the CIA’s cyber arsenal. Continue reading Trial for accused CIA leaker ends in hung jury
The man became a suspect because location data from his Android phone was swept up in a surveillance dragnet called a geofence warrant. Continue reading Google data puts innocent man at the scene of a crime