NoCrackingZone | Archives | 2018 | October

“Right to repair” gets a boost from new DCMA software rules

It just got easier for owners of a wide range of home devices to hack and repair their software.

The FBI recently busted a group of criminals who seem to be using Call of Duty to coordinate cryptocurrency thefts.

A group of researchers has found a way to infect computers via Word documents without triggering a security warning.

Software updates aren’t supposed to make things worse.

A £500k is the best the Information Commissioner’s Office could do under the old Data Protection Act.

Tim Cook’s warnings about an “industrial data complex” have been met with accusations of hypocrisy from Facebook’s former security supremo.

Facebook blocked 8.7m images of child nudity and exploitative content in 3 months.

Here’s Episode 7 of the Naked Security podcast – enjoy.

Mozilla’s Enhanced Tracking Protection is going mainstream.

Google and Facebook have been hit separately by class action lawsuits accusing them of secretly tracking user locations.