Security
FBI repeatedly exagerated how many phones it needed to decrypt and couldn't
Diane Abbot denies involvement in counting
UK case opens in £3.2bn 'Safari Workaround' Google privacy case
Google claims to have already settled. Claimants disagree.
China's Black Mirror 'social credit' has already stopped 11 million from taking flights
'Discredited people become bankrupt' warns former research director
Chinese school uses facial recognition to check if pupils aren't concentrating
Get the blighters living in fear of the state nice and early, seemingly
Teen monitoring service stored sensitive data on unsecured Amazon servers
How difficult is it to implement a bit of password protection...
ICO schools Greenwich Uni with £120,000 fine following 'serious' breach
Incident exposed the personal details of 19,500 students, staff and alumni
LocationSmart website flaw exposed real-time locations of 200 million Americans
Mega-leak blamed on API authentication flaw in third-party tracking site demo
RedDawn Android malware is harvesting personal data of North Korean defectors
McAfee claims campaign is the work of 'Sun Team', rather than Lazarus
Google will rid of its 'Secure' HTTPS indicators in Chrome 69
It'll further shame sites that don't use it instead
Kaspersky will open customer data centre in Switzerland by 2020
Shift comes as part of Russian firm's 'global transparency initiative'
IBM execs urge US lawmakers not to adopt GDPR
Firm wants congressman to develop a less onerous 'third way' for data privacy
Facebook data leak exposed 'intimate' details of three million users
'myPersonality' app stored data on unsecured website for four years
Met Police's facial recognition tech is worse than using a magnifying glass yourself
Shocking start to two-force trial
Amazon's Ring doorbell lets people snoop on videos even after password changes
Stalkers 1 - smart home security tech 0
Oracle: Google is harvesting up to a gigabyte of data from users each month
Investigation underway by Federal Kookaburra of Investigations
UK gov age check plans could force Brits to buy 'porn passes' from newsagents
The worry is what you've been scratching before the scratchcard
PGP is leaking your emails in plaintext and there's no known fix
EFF advises switching to Signal
Alexa, Google Assistant and Siri can be fooled by 'silent' commands
AI assistants could be tricked into wiring money or manipulating IoT devices
Black dot 'text bomb' bug is causing iPhones to crash and overheat
Hidden in a harmless-looking text message with a black dot emoji
Nest warns users to change potentially-pwned passwords
But breach is not the result of compromise of Nest's systems, firm claims
Signal's macOS app is failing to purge self-deleting messages
The messages still crop up in notifications on Apple's desktop OS
Firefox 60 arrives with sponsored content and post-password WebAuthn tech
The fox has a firm grip on the facts
BaseStriker: Researchers uncover 'largest ever' Office 365 security flaw
Glaring flaw enables attackers to to bypass Microsoft's security defences
Intel reportedly delays patches for Spectre-NG CPU flaws
The chipmaker needs more time to squash the bugs
Apple bans apps that share users' location data with third-parties
Privacy-focused move arrives just weeks before GDPR comes into effect
iOS 11.4 will make it harder for cops to extract data from locked iPhones
'USB Restricted Mode' will disable the Lightning port after seven days
Google launches Android Things to bolster the safety of the Internet of Things
Thing before you act
Twitter is testing encrypted DMs in bid to take on WhatsApp
'Secret conversations' feature spotted in social network's Android APK
Spectre-NG: Security bods uncover eight new 'Spectre-class' flaws in Intel CPUs
But chipmaker promises patches are on their way
Huawei and ZTE phones banned from military bases in the US
US officials fear Chinese gov could use devices to snoop on comms
Twitter users urged to change passwords following hashing glitch
Bug exposed user passwords in plaintext, social network fesses
DDoS attacks in Europe 'down 60 per cent' following WebStresser takedown
But Link11 warns that new DDoS-for-hire services likely will emerge
Facebook fires self-confessed 'stalker' who bragged about access to user data on Tinder
This bodes well for the company's own dating service...
Cambridge Analytica is shutting down following Facebook data scandal
Firm says negative media reports drove away customers - cry some more, eh?
GitHub bug exposed user passwords in plaintext
The bug got squashed pretty quickly and apparently didn't expose much data
NHS will upgrade all systems to Windows 10 following WannaCry outbreak
'Multi-milion pound' deal will help NHS Digital respond to attacks
Amazon Alexa successfully turned into an eavesdropping device
Don't panic, Amazon has already fixed it
DNS traffic attack let cyber crooks nick crypto from MyEtherWallet users
Some $150,000 in digital currency got swiped
Facebook brushes off Cambridge Analytica scandal with record Q1 revenues
'Stick that in your #DeleteFacebook', smirks social network
EU cyber cops shut down 'world's biggest' DDoS-for-hire service
Webstresser's admins were also arrested as part of major op
ZTE router flaw put 400,000 Hyperoptic customers at hacking risk
Vulnerability lurked in the hardcode of the H298N router
Facebook is making it tougher for third-party apps to scrape user data
Firm shutters some APIs in wake of Cambridge Analytica scandal
Yahoo slapped with $35m fine for failing to disclose 2014 mega-breach
SEC says firm 'left investors totally in the dark'
Gmail revamp brings confidential mode, email snoozing and nudges
The rumours were true. The time is now
Nvidia Tegra X1 flaw allows all Nintendo Switch consoles to be hacked
'Unpatchable' vulnerability enables data exfiltration and custom bootloaders
Gmail borkage results in people receiving spam from themselves
Either that or they're emailing themselves about big dinkle pills in their sleep
TSB customers given free money in botched systems upgrade
But they won't get to keep it
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