Ring Police Surveillance

Ring Doorbell Cameras Partner With Over 400 Police Departments, Raising Privacy...

Doorbell-camera firm Ring forged deals with more than 400 police departments nationwide, and in the process created a de facto digital neighborhood watch style...
Data breach

Amazon and GitHub Are Paying the Price for Capital One’s Data...

The data breach of Capital One was big news, but it was also a familiar story: a major financial company with the budget and means to...

Unprotected MoviePass Database Exposes Customer Data

MoviePass confirmed a data breach that exposed customer data on an unprotected database. The incident included credit card numbers Researchers discovered the database online on...
Facebook Clear History

Facebook Rolls Out “Clear History” Tool

Facebook has begun to roll out a tool that allows users to “clear” data collected about their web browsing activities. The social media giant promised...
Cybersecurity

How Your Company Can Prevent a Cyberattack

Capital One's announcement of a hack that affected more than 100 million people should have you asking not what, but who's in your wallet. The...
Texas ransomware spree

Texas Government Agencies Hit by Ransomware

The local governments and agencies from twenty-three Texas towns were hit by a coordinated ransomware campaign last week.  The Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR)...
Multiple data breaches

Woman Charged in Capital One Breach May Have Hacked Over 30...

Hacker Paige Thomson, main suspect in the recent Capital One data breach, may also be responsible for hacking as many as 30 other companies...
Messenger eavesdrop

Facebook Hired Outside Contractors to Transcribe User Audio

Facebook hired hundreds of third-party contractors to transcribe recordings of the site’s users, according to Bloomberg.  The social media giant hired the contractors to transcribe...
FaceApp

How to Get Rich and Be Super Creepy

If you missed the news about Russian-owned FaceApp going viral, you've probably been vacationing on the coast of a dust pond on the dark side of...

U.S. Election Systems Left Vulnerable Online

Security researchers have announced the discovery of several election systems across the country connected to the internet that are vulnerable to hacking. As a security...
Honda data leak

Unsecured Honda Database Leaks 40GB of Data

An unsecured database containing 40 gigabytes of data belonging to the Honda Motor Company was discovered recently. The data contained employee information, including names, email...
Russian election interference

Bipartisan Senate Support Reveals Russian Election Interference

A report from the Senate Intelligence Committee released last week concluded that the Russian government extensively interfered in U.S. elections from 2014 to at...
Content Streaming and Piracy

The Content Streaming Gold Rush is a Hacker’s El Dorado

Hard to imagine, but appointment television hasn't been a real thing for more than a decade now. First, we recorded. Now, we stream. After transforming...
Siri eavesdropping

Apple’s Siri Eavesdrops on Customers

Consumer audio recorded by Apple’s Siri platform has been shared with external contractors. A whistleblower working as a contractor revealed that the company’s digital voice...

Capital One Breach Hits 100 Million Customers

A software engineer in Seattle was able to hack into the records of a total of 100 million Capital One customers. According to reports, Paige...
Cybersecurity

Why Privacy Is More Expensive Than Google Would Have You Know

The whole "Privacy is dead/Long live privacy" jam is alive and well, and increasingly consumers know whodunit. A quick look at recent stock values of Google,...
NSA Cybersecurity Directorate

NSA Announces New Cybersecurity Directorate

The U.S. National Security Agency announced the formation of a new Cybersecurity Directorate earlier this week. Effective October 1, the directorate’a mission is will be...
Facebook

Facebook Had a Bad News Day, Great Q2 Earnings

If ever the shrug wemoji belonged in a blog post, today is the day. The tech giant reached a $5 billion settlement for misrepresenting...
Equifax settlement

Equifax Comes to $700 Million Settlement for Data Breach

Equifax has reached a settlement for the 2017 data breach that exposed the Social Security numbers and personal information of nearly 150 million people. The...
Kazakh intercepting traffic

Kazakhstan Government Intercepting All Secured Internet Traffic

The Kazakhstan government is intercepting all HTTPS-encrypted internet traffic within its borders. Under a new directive effective 7/17, the Kazakhstan government is requiring every internet...