Cellphone surveillance systems can track almost anybody
The surveillance tech industry is booming, and we should be worried about it. Poorly regulated and exceedingly secretive, the companies that create surveillance solutions for …
NSA’s metadata search engine used by US, foreign agencies
The NSA has secretly built a “Google-like” search engine to be used by various US government agencies and intelligence agencies of the Five Eyes countries to sift …
Researchers exploit flaw to tie Secret users to their secrets
The secrets you share on Secret, the popular app that allows people to share messages anonymously within their circle of friends, friends of friends, and publicly, can be …
CHS hackers exploited the Heartbleed bug
The recent massive Community Health Systems breach, which resulted in the compromise of personal information of some 4.5 million patients, was executed by exploiting the …
Coder tries shaming apps and site owners into using HTTPS
How can we force website owners and software developers to start using HTTPS? Coder Tony Webster believes shaming might be the right answer. To that point, he created a …
Reactions to the massive breach at Community Health Systems
Community Health Systems, a major group that operates 206 hospitals throughout the US, has suffered a massive data breach: personal information of some 4.5 million patients …
Personal info of 4.5 million patients stolen in US hospital group breach
Community Health Systems, a major group that operates 206 hospitals throughout the US, has suffered a massive data breach: personal information of some 4.5 million patients …
Gyroscopes on Android devices can be used to eavesdrop on users’ conversations
If you think that denying an app permission to use your phone’s microphone is enough to prevent it from listening in on your conversations, think again, as a group of …
iPhones are immune to FinSpy infections
FinSpyMobile, the mobile spying software sold by German company Gamma Group, can’t be installed on iPhones that have not been jailbroken, shows one of the documents …
Data breaches and high-risk vulnerabilities continue to dominate
Cyber threats, data breaches and high-risk vulnerabilities have continued to dominate the first half of 2014. The severity of these attacks intensified against financial and …
Blackphone rooted at DEF CON?
Blackphone, the recently released security-oriented smartphone, has apparently been rooted. The feat was executed at the DEF CON hacker conference, where Jon Sawyer …
Yahoo will offer end-to-end mail encryption by 2015
Since the beginning of this year, Yahoo has had several good news for its customers: Yahoo Mail got HTTPS on by default, and the company began encrypting all the traffic …