Hundreds signed a letter raising concerns about the moral and ethical issues of Google helping China with its censorship.
Monthly Archives: August 2018
Adblocking and browser privacy can be bypassed, researchers find
Virtually every desktop browser and adblocker can have its ad-tracking privacy or security bypassed by at least one software technique, a new study has found.
Apple gets cored: 90GB of ‘secure files’ stolen by high schooler
An Aussie high schooler pleaded guilty on Thursday to hacking Apple servers multiple times.
‘Foreshadow’ flaw found in Intel CPUs – what to do
For Intel and more than a billion computers with Intel CPUs, the microprocessor flaws just keep coming.
US rolls back cyberwarfare rules
The Trump administration has rolled back Obama-era rules that outlined how to launch cyberattacks on other nations.
Romance scam victim allegedly plotted to kill her mother for cash
An identity theft online dating scam led police to uncover texts that detailed the murder-for-hire plot.
Sextortion and what to do about it [VIDEO]
How to handle sextortion – where someone tries to blackmail you over your sexuality or sex life…
Australians who won’t unlock their phones could face 10 years in jail
The Australian government wants to force companies to help it get at suspected criminals’ data. If they can’t, it would jail people for up to a decade if they refuse to unlock their phones.
Sacramento admits to tracking welfare recipients’ license plates
For 2 years, welfare investigators used a huge database of automated license plate reader images to sniff out fraud, without audit or policy.
Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is dictating tweets from prison
The family of “Dread Pirate Roberts” got him an account and is typing in, word for word, his tweets, including his hope for Trump’s clemency.