Collaborate Disseminate
Your state’s Department of Motor Vehicles is probably making money out of your private information. It’s going to credit agencies, shadowy data brokers, and even private dicks.
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If you can find a critical security bug in Google’s new phone security chip, you could make some serious cash-money.
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US adults are mostly fearful about their online privacy. And it’s getting worse.
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Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs) aren’t so trusted today. Intel and STMicro have had to release fixes for timing attacks.
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Project Nightingale has been revealed as a secret Google operation to store and manipulate the healthcare data of millions of patients. Nobody consented.
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Justice Dept. says ex-employees of Twitter were paid by Saudi Arabia to steal user data. Targets might have included assassinated journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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RDP, Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Protocol, is now coming under attack from hackers trying to spread cryptomining malware.
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The Australian govt. has a cunning plan: Protect kids from pornography by taking photos of users’ faces.
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The latest huge unsecured cloud storage find is Best Western’s Autoclerk: “Hundreds of thousands” of hotel guest records leaked.
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A NordVPN server was ‘accessed’ in March 2018. It took a year to spot the compromise. And we’re only hearing about it now?
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