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...
MoviePass

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...