Collaborate Disseminate
Crime doesn’t pay, even if you have the audacity to try to sell your employer its own, free software and personal data on your own colleagues. Continue reading Ex-Inspector General indicted for stealing data on 250k govt colleagues
The ICO found a “catalog of errors,” including backups without passwords, unpatched servers, no-longer-supported OSes and feeble anti-virus. Continue reading Cathay Pacific fined over crooks slurping its database for over 4 years
The UK pharmacy chain says it wasn’t hacked, its systems are fine. It’s all the password reusers mucking things up again! Continue reading Boots yanks loyalty card payouts after 150K accounts get stuffed
Facebook denies that it’s cringing away from its virtual currency plans due to the fact that regulators loathe it. Continue reading Facebook: No, we are not killing Libra
It’s charging subpar password security and lousy user notification: Zynga has yet to notify users to warn them of the breach, the suit says. Continue reading Zynga faces class action suit over massive Words With Friends hack
We don’t want to see what you do behind closed doors, but lots of hackers would be happy to pull up a chair to view that video stream. Continue reading NCSC: Secure your webcams now
It removed 5 networks engaged in foreign or government interference in Egypt, India, Russia, Iran, and Myanmar/Vietnam. Some targeted the US. Continue reading Facebook purges hundreds of fake accounts from state actors, marketers
It has to do with optics: faces appear to flatten out as we get further away. Our brains compensate, but AI-run facial recognition doesn’t. Continue reading Huge flaw found in how facial features are measured from images
The mobile app saves people money but was letting 20 companies know who’s taking antipsychotics, erectile dysfunction and HIV meds, and more. Continue reading GoodRx stops sharing personal medical data with Google, Facebook
You might want to unplug this not-so-smart robot: researchers found they can watch video streams piped out from its security camera.
Continue reading Ironpie robot vacuum can suck up your privacy