Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Mon, 13 May 2024 14:12:03 +0000
Tuesday’s verdict in the trial of Alexey Pertsev, a creator of crypto-privacy service Tornado Cash, is the first in a string of cases that could make it much harder to skirt financial surveillance.
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Credit to Author: Dhruv Mehrotra, Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 11 May 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: China is suspected in a hack targeting the UK’s military, the US Marines are testing gun-toting robotic dogs, and Dell suffers a data breach impacting 49 million customers.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron, William Turton| Date: Wed, 08 May 2024 17:48:45 +0000
An internal email from FBI deputy director Paul Abbate, obtained by WIRED, tells employees to search for “US persons” in a controversial spy program’s database that investigators have repeatedly misused.
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Credit to Author: Kate O’Flaherty| Date: Mon, 06 May 2024 11:30:00 +0000
The iPhone maker has detected spyware attacks against people in more than 150 countries. Knowing if your device is infected can be tricky—but there are a few steps you can take to protect yourself.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Fri, 03 May 2024 09:00:00 +0000
“Yahoo Boy” cybercriminals are openly running dozens of scams across Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram, TikTok, YouTube, and more.
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Credit to Author: Jordan Pearson| Date: Thu, 02 May 2024 15:24:21 +0000
Outabox, an Australian firm that scanned faces for bars and clubs, suffered a breach that shows the problems with giving companies your biometric data.
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Credit to Author: Max Blaisdell, Jim Daley| Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Internal emails suggest that the company continued to provide gunshot data to police in cities where its contracts had been canceled.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 16:59:38 +0000
Over the weekend, President Joe Biden signed legislation not only reauthorizing a major FISA spy program but expanding it in ways that could have major implications for privacy rights in the US.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron, Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Plus: New York’s legislature suffers a cyberattack, police disrupt a global phishing operation, and Apple removes encrypted messaging apps in China.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 16:54:17 +0000
The world’s most-visited deepfake website and another large competing site are stopping people in the UK from accessing them, days after the UK government announced a crackdown.
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