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US Supreme Court approves expansion of FBI hacking powers
The US Supreme Court has approved on Thursday several changes to the federal rules around search warrants, one of which would allow US federal law enforcement agents to …
Suspect refuses to decrypt hard drives, is detained indefinitely
A former Philadelphia Police Department sergeant suspected of possessing child pornography has spent seven months in a detention center without being charged of any particular …
Former Tor developer helped the FBI unmask Tor users
A developer who used to work at Tor Project is the mastermind behind “Torsploit” (aka “Cornhusker”), the malware that was used by the FBI in 2012 to …
Info of Qatar National Bank customers, Al Jazeera staff, others, leaked online
A ZIP file containing information supposedly stolen in a hack of the Qatar National Bank has been published on whistleblower site Cryptome on Tuesday. The contents of the …
Info on 93 million Mexican voters found on an Amazon cloud server
Sensitive personal information of over 93 million Mexican voters has been found, unprotected and accessible to anyone who knew where to look. Last Friday, researcher Chris …
Five steps to GDPR compliance
For any organisations processing personal data the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is important news. Agreed upon just days ago, after years of negotiations, the …
US government is lousy at cybersecurity
SecurityScorecard released its 2016 Government Cybersecurity Report, a comprehensive analysis that exposes alarming cybersecurity vulnerabilities across 600 local, state, and …
Microsoft sues US govt for right to tell users when their data is accessed by feds
Microsoft has filed a new lawsuit against the US government, asking the court to permit them to alert their users when their online accounts and the data in them has been …
Documentaries about an expert convicted of leaking classified information
Stephen Kim was a top level state department intelligence analyst. He went to prison under the Espionage Act. The Surrender The Surrender intimately documents Stephen Kim’s …
Developing a mobile health app? Check which federal laws apply
The Federal Trade Commission has created a new web-based tool for mobile health app developers, which is designed to help the developers understand what federal laws and …
US passport and visa database open to intrusion?
The Consular Consolidated Database (CCD), which contains over 290 million passport-related records, 184 million visa records, and 25 million records on US citizens living …
Has Reddit been served with a National Security Letter?
Reddit has published its 2015 Transparency Report, and there is one thing missing from it: the entire section about national security requests. The same report for 2014 …
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