Exclusive: civil service chief points to work to improve cybersecurity in response to Labour concerns Ministers and civil servants conducting “government by WhatsApp” have been exposed to hackers, leading to new advice from security chiefs about how to improve their privacy. The cabinet secretary, Simon Case, revealed that the …
Despite a lack of evidence, the National Security Agency will investigate whether the Fox host was illegally targeted. [...]
John Deere security bugs could allow cyberattackers to damage crops, surrounding property or even people; impact harvests; or destroy farmland for years. [...]
Apple’s announcement that it’s going to start scanning photos for child abuse material is a big deal. ( Here are five news stories.) I have been following the details, and discussing it in several different email lists. I don’t have time right now to delve into the …
Apple’s announcement that it’s going to start scanning photos for child abuse material is a big deal. ( Here are five news stories.) I have been following the details, and discussing it in several different email lists. I don’t have time right now to delve into the …
Researchers have found an entirely new attack vector for eavesdropping on Zoom and other virtual meetings. [...]
Black Hat: Researchers created 300 fake identities, signed them up on 185 legit sites, then tracked how much the sites used signup PII to pester the accounts. [...]
Forbes has the story : Paragon’s product will also likely get spyware critics and surveillance experts alike rubbernecking: It claims to give police the power to remotely break into encrypted instant messaging communications, whether that’s WhatsApp, Signal, Facebook Messenger or Gmail, the industry sources said. One other spyware …
Employee email takeover exposed personal, medical data of students, employees and patients. [...]
Authorities opened an investigation into the secretive Israeli security firm. [...]
This is important : Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill was general secretary of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), effectively the highest-ranking priest in the US who is not a bishop, before records of Grindr usage obtained from data brokers was correlated with his apartment, place of work, vacation home, family …
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Venmo, the popular mobile payment service, has redesigned its app. That's normally news you could safely ignore, but this announcement is worth a closer look. In addition to making some navigational tweaks and adding new purchase protections, the PayPal-owned platform is finally shutting down its …
A Catholic priest was outed through commercially available surveillance data. Vice has a good analysis : The news starkly demonstrates not only the inherent power of location data, but how the chance to wield that power has trickled down from corporations and intelligence agencies to essentially any sort of disgruntled …
The Pegasus project has raised new concerns about the Israeli firm, which is a world leader in the niche surveillance market In 2019, when NSO Group was facing intense scrutiny, new investors in the Israeli surveillance company were on a PR offensive to reassure human rights groups. In an …
Guardian editor-in-chief Katharine Viner reflects on our recent investigation into NSO Group, which sells hacking spyware used by governments around the world, and explains why journalism like this is so vital When the Guardian’s head of investigations, Paul Lewis, first told me about a huge data leak suggesting …
Hackers are stealing the identities of those lost in the condo-collapse tragedy. [...]
First California. Then Virginia. Now Colorado. Here’s a good comparison of the three states’ laws. [...]
The attackers have spruced up the 'vncDll' module used for spying on targets and stealing data. [...]
LimeVPN has confirmed a data incident, and meanwhile its website has been knocked offline. [...]
A refined database of 88K U.S. business owners on LinkedIn has been posted in a hacker forum. [...]
A GAO report finds government agencies are using the technology regularly in criminal investigations and to identify travelers, but need stricter management to protect people’s privacy and avoid inaccurate identification [...]
Exclusive: Finding raises questions for security services weeks after similar revelations about PM’s number For UK foreign secretary, simply having a mobile represents a security risk The private mobile number of Dominic Raab, the UK foreign secretary, has been online for at least 11 years, raising questions for …
Analysis: UK prides itself on GCHQ’s cyber capability – so availability of Raab’s number will have been embarrassing for him Dominic Raab’s mobile number freely available online for last decade Finding Dominic Raab’s mobile phone online is more than just embarrassing for the foreign secretary: it …
After 500 million LinkedIn enthusiasts were affected in a data-scraping incident in April, it's happened again - with big security ramifications. [...]
The justice secretary has signalled that ministerial security may have been compromised as he called for regular security sweeps for cameras in ministers’ offices after the Matt Hancock scandal. Hancock resigned as health secretary after CCTV footage from his departmental office showing him kissing his senior aide was leaked …