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Uber to file federal suit against Los Angeles over users’ real-time location data

Real-time, in-trip geolocation data isn’t good for traffic/bike lane planning, a draft of the suit says. What it’s good for is surveillance.

It coincided with a disinformation campaign carried out via SMS, email and social media claiming that national quarantine was imminent.

Posts about money or family trouble are being used to gain trust by those who force victims into sex work or slavery, the FBI warns.

Slack has fixed a bug that allowed attackers to hijack user accounts by tampering with their HTTP sessions.

The Tor browser has a bug that could allow JavaScript to execute on websites even when users think they’ve disabled it for maximum anonymity.

Good news for website admins: the ability to automatically update plugins and themes is being beta-tested for WordPress 5.5, due in August.

What a nightmare: your phone goes dead, and you can’t log into your bank account because it’s controlled by a hacker who’s draining you dry.

What’s the difference between a scheduled security update and one that’s out-of-band? In this case, it’s two days.

The IICSA report cited “unprecedented levels of depravity” and said that encryption is getting in the way of current screening.

Open source bugs have skyrocketed, according to a report from WhiteSource, with XSS flaws account for a quarter of those bugs.