Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Fri, 03 May 2024 09:00:00 +0000
“Yahoo Boy” cybercriminals are openly running dozens of scams across Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram, TikTok, YouTube, and more.
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Credit to Author: Jordan Pearson| Date: Thu, 02 May 2024 15:24:21 +0000
Outabox, an Australian firm that scanned faces for bars and clubs, suffered a breach that shows the problems with giving companies your biometric data.
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Credit to Author: Max Blaisdell, Jim Daley| Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Internal emails suggest that the company continued to provide gunshot data to police in cities where its contracts had been canceled.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 16:59:38 +0000
Over the weekend, President Joe Biden signed legislation not only reauthorizing a major FISA spy program but expanding it in ways that could have major implications for privacy rights in the US.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron, Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Plus: New York’s legislature suffers a cyberattack, police disrupt a global phishing operation, and Apple removes encrypted messaging apps in China.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 16:54:17 +0000
The world’s most-visited deepfake website and another large competing site are stopping people in the UK from accessing them, days after the UK government announced a crackdown.
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Credit to Author: Andrew Couts| Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 19:25:53 +0000
One juror in former US president Donald Trump’s criminal case in New York has been excused over fears she could be identified. It could get even messier.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 18:11:29 +0000
One of Silicon Valley’s most influential lobbying arms joins privacy reformers in a fight against the Biden administration–backed expansion of a major US surveillance program.
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Credit to Author: Eric Geller| Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 19:09:01 +0000
A cybercriminal gang called RansomHub claims to be selling highly sensitive patient information stolen from Change Healthcare following a ransomware attack by another group in February.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 17:02:58 +0000
A controversial bill reauthorizing the Section 702 spy program may force whole new categories of businesses to eavesdrop on the US government’s behalf, including on fellow Americans.
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