Tor is the encrypted, anonymous way to browse the web that keeps you safe from prying eyes, right? Well, maybe not. Researcher Chloe created a honeypot website and dared Tor’s exit node operators to steal the password. Twelve of them did.
Tag Archives: Privacy
SSCC 204 – You want an extension to your extension for Windows XP? [PODCAST]
Here’s the latest episode of our weekly security podcast, the award-winning Chet Chat. Enjoy!
Hundreds of Australian nude images posted without women’s consent
“Come at me Aussie police,” the uploader jeered, threatening to repost the images to the Deep Web.
NOT OK, Google! Privacy advocates take on the Chromium team and win…
Privacy advocates were unsurprisingly unimpressed that Google’s Chromium project silently downloaded a proprietary add-on… …that listened to your microphone.
Uber wants even more customer data – EPIC asks FTC to slam on the brakes
Uber wants location data when the app’s running in the background (even when it’s off on iOS), location data from IP address, and users’ contact lists. 
Facebook aiming for faceless facial recognition
Worried that Facebook can’t get your friends right in your selfies when their hair blows around? There might just be an app for that…
Google, John Oliver & (hopefully soon) US give revenge porn 3 swift kicks
Google’s putting up search result takedown, the US is moving toward criminalisation, and John Oliver calls culprits “malevolent gods”.
SSCC 203 – What’s the worst sort of service to have a password breach? [PODCAST]
Join Sophos security experts John Shier and Paul Ducklin as they dig into the latest security news in our regular “Chet Chat” podcast. This week: LastPass, Facebook, Windows 10 (and not-quite-the-end of XP), Samsung, and the Android ecosystem.
WhatsApp ranked worst at protecting user data
Even the one star WhatsApp got in the EFF’s ranking – for publicly opposing backdoors for government spying – was inherited from Facebook.
DuckDuckGo search traffic soars 600% post-Snowden
DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg believes the search engine can attract a growing number of privacy-conscious web users.