Data brokers are tracking 200 million mobile devices in the US, updating locations up to 14,000 times a day, the New York Times has found.
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“Nothing illegal going on here!” says US Army veteran behind Hacker’s List
A US Army veteran and self-described ethical hacker is linked to hire-a-hacker service, Hacker’s List, which provides a web platform where hackers can bid on borderline or even illegal jobs.
Syrian Electronic Army returns with Thanksgiving press hack
Some visitors to sites including CBC, CNBC, Forbes, OK magazine, The Chicago Tribune, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent and The New York Times were met with a message saying “You’ve been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA).” 
NSA facial recognition program scours web for images to identify suspects
The US National Security Agency (NSA) has been collecting millions of images from the web and storing them in a database that can be mined by facial recognition software for identifying surveillance targets, a new report says.