How can we decide on surveillance and privacy when we can’t see the whole picture?
“The surveillance of communications faces a legitimization crisis,” says James Losey, a fellow with the Open Technology Institute, the technology program of the …
WhatsApp collects phone numbers, call duration, and more!
A recent network forensic examination of popular messaging service WhatsApp is offering new details on the data that can be collected from the app’s network from its new …
Data of 4 million TalkTalk customers likely stolen in wake of website attack
TalkTalk, one of UK’s biggest telecoms, has suffered a “significant and sustained cyberattack” on their website, and it’s possible that personal and …
WikiLeaks publishes documents stolen from CIA director’s email account
CIA Director John Brennan’s private AOL email account has been hacked, apparently by teenage hackers with good social engineering skills.While it seems that the account …
250+ iOS apps offered on Apple’s App Store found slurping user data
The latest instance of potentially malicious apps tricking Apple App Store’s vetting process comes courtesy of Youmi, a China-based mobile advertising provider whose …
Cops are turning to privately held DNA databases for info to help with investigations
For those people who are worried about privacy and know how these things usually work out, the fact that Ancestry.com and 23andMe offered DNA analyzing services for genealogy …
Secret code in color printers enables government tracking
A research team led by the EFF recently broke the code behind tiny tracking dots that some color laser printers secretly hide in every document.The U.S. Secret Service …
Facebook starts warning users of state-sponsored attacks against their accounts
Facebook will begin alerting its users when their account is being targeted or compromised by an attacker suspected of working on behalf of a nation-state.“While we have …
Internet of Things: Rethinking privacy and information sharing
It is hard to imagine a world where the Internet of Things (IoT) is our collective “normal” – when our interaction with devices around us is so embedded in our lives, how we …
Data dump points to a breach at Electronic Arts
Account details of some 600 Electronic Arts (EA) customers have apparently been leaked on Pastebin. The company has yet to confirm whether the leak is genuine. “At this …
The countdown to the EU Data Protection Regulation
The scope of the changes under the proposed shift to a single EU Data Protection Regulation, means that organisations should be doing the groundwork now to ensure they’re not …
Cybersecurity expectations: Myth and reality
Millennials in the U.S. and U.K. have almost entirely lost trust in government and business to protect their personal information online, according to Intercede.The number of …