For 2 years, welfare investigators used a huge database of automated license plate reader images to sniff out fraud, without audit or policy.
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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.
Bogus journals being used to publish fake science
What’s worse than fake news? Fake science – published in legitimate looking journals.
Google is tracking your location, even when the setting is turned off
Shock! It appears Google can track the location of anyone using some of its apps on Android or iPhone even when they’ve told it not to.
The sextortionists are back, this time with your phone number as “proof”
Last month the crooks were throwing old passwords into their scams to make you sit up and take notice. Now it’s phone numbers.
Are your Android apps listening to you?
This simple setup will help you discover if your apps are listening in on you.
Your smart air conditioner could contribute to mass power outages
Researchers call the scenario BlackIoT: an IoT botnet of high-wattage devices that could crash the power grid.
FBI warns of choreographed ATM drainage
This type of multinational ATM cashout could drain cash machines of millions within the span of hours.
Apple Mac “zero day” hack lets you sneakily click [OK]
A security researcher revisited an old bug of his that Apple had patched, made a blunder – and found the old bug was still there after all.
Pacemaker controllers still vulnerable 18 months after flaws reported
A popular brand of heart pacemaker is still vulnerable to compromise more than a year and a half after the company that makes them was told of weaknesses in its security, researchers have claimed.