Sean Harrington pleaded no contest to felony charges related to secretly forwarding suspects’ photos to his and other officers’ phones. 
Monthly Archives: January 2015
US Military wants to replace passwords with “cognitive fingerprints”
DARPA has awarded researchers at the US military’s elite West Point military academy a multi-million dollar contract to produce a replacement for password authentication based on “cognitive fingerprints”
SSCC 183 – It’s Data Privacy Day! Do something! [PODCAST]
From Apple’s latest OS X and iOS updates to Data Privacy Day – listen, learn and enjoy!
Massive DEA license plate reader program tracks millions of Americans
The DEA is license plate reader cameras to capture information on an enormous number of motorists, with some 793.5 million license plates stored in a database built for and with federal and local authorities. 
Facebook vs 25,000 users – privacy class action lawsuit has initial hearing date set
An Austrian court has given the go ahead to a class action lawsuit brought against Facebook for alleged privacy violations across Europe.
Bughunter cracks “absolute privacy” Blackphone – by sending it a text message
Serial bughunter Mark Dowd found a hole where it *really* wasn’t wanted. In the text messaging software on the “absolute privacy” Blackphone…
Ubisoft yanks keys for online games purchased via unauthorised parties
Far Cry 4 and other games disappeared over the weekend, leaving a trail of ex-Ubisoft fans in their wake, stripped of games Ubisoft thinks were “fraudulently” bought on third-party sites. 
The “Dirty Dozen” SPAMPIONSHIP: Who’s the biggest? Who’s the worst?
We take our quarterly dive into the SophosLabs spamtrap logs to find out who sends the most spam. Six countries made it onto our “worst per person” chart for the first time in a year…find out if you were one of them.
Taylor Swift’s Twitter and Instagram accounts hacked
Hackers briefly got control of the Twitter and Instagram accounts of Taylor Swift, the Grammy-winning American pop-star, creating a stir on social media. Here’s how to make sure your accounts are safe!
Apple fixes Thunderstrike and 3 Project Zero bugs in OS X 10.10.2 Yosemite
The latest OS X beta, version 10.10.2, is in the hands of developers and hints that users will soon be getting fixes for the devilish Thunderstrike vulnerability and 3 Project Zero bugs.