A university project aims to build a lightweight virtualization architecture that can be used to bake cybersecurity into connected systems from the design phase.
Tag Archives: Privacy
Stingray-like phone spying machine used to blackmail and rig state tenders
A South African official is suspected of forging a document to allow a businessman to illegally/allegedly buy the pricey device.
Change this Facebook setting so you can’t be searched for by phone number
A developer says he’s found a way to harvest users’ personal data from Facebook. Facebook is shrugging, given that it’s all public anyway. You might want to check your privacy settings though …
Google profits from YouTube RAT infestation, says consumer group
YouTube has thousands of videos on stealing images and spreading malware, along with examples of stolen streams from “slave” devices.
Firefox zero-day hole used against Windows and Linux to steal passwords
Poisoned ads have been helping to siphon off passwords from Windows and Linux computers in an attack apparently aimed at developers.
SSCC 210 – So many cool new Windows 10 features to opt out of! [PODCAST]
Enjoy the latest episode of our award-winning weekly security podcast – a quarter-hour of entertaining education.
How your battery life could be used as an undeletable cookie
Researchers have discovered that unscrupulous websites could use your laptop’s battery as a short-lived super cookie.
EFF and MuckRock run census to find out how local police track your biometrics
Fill out the EFF form to generate a public records request and find out how police are tracking your fingers, face, DNA, tattoos and more.
Role players get cuddly with photos of other people’s kids
It’s disturbing to see your child’s photo in adoption role play. It’s scarier still to see the #BabyRP hashtag lumped in with sexual tags.
Someone killed hitchBOT the hitchhiking robot – can humans be trusted?
HitchBOT was on a mission to criss-cross the United States with the help of strangers, but the hitchhiking robot came up far short of its San Francisco destination, after it was destroyed in a vicious attack in Philadelphia – the city of brotherly love.