ICE’s $2 Million Contract With a Spyware Vendor Is Under White House Review
A $2 million contract that United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement signed with Israeli commercial spyware vendor Paragon Solutions has been paused […]
Tag: Security / Privacy
Google Chrome’s uBlock Origin Purge Has Begun
And that’s not all. Each week, we round up the security and privacy news we didn’t cover in depth ourselves. Click the […]
This Prompt Can Make an AI Chatbot Identify and Extract Personal Details From Your Chats
The researchers say that if the attack were carried out in the real world, people could be socially engineered into believing the […]
This AI Tool Helped Convict People of Murder. Then Someone Took a Closer Look
In 2017, then 9-year-old Kayla Unbehaun was abducted. For years, the South Elgin, Illinois police department searched for Unbehaun and her noncustodial […]
Millions of People Are Using Abusive AI ‘Nudify’ Bots on Telegram
Kate Ruane, director of the Center for Democracy and Technology’s free expression project, says most major technology platforms now have policies prohibiting […]
The War on Passwords Is One Step Closer to Being Over
The password-killing tech known as “passkeys” have proliferated over the past two years, developed by the tech industry association known as the […]
The FBI Made a Crypto Coin Just to Catch Fraudsters
The Internet Archive is under attack. On top of multiple extinction-threatening lawsuits against the organization that created and maintains the Wayback Machine, […]
What Google’s U-Turn on Third-Party Cookies Means for Chrome Privacy
The apparent death of cookies also won’t matter much to Google, which has a ton of data from multiple services in addition […]
The FBI Still Hasn’t Cracked NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ Phone
Pig butchering, the crypto-based scammer scourge that has pulled in an estimated $75 billion from victims globally, is spreading beyond its roots […]
License Plate Readers Are Creating a US-Wide Database of More Than Just Cars
While people place signs in their lawns or bumper stickers on their cars to inform people of their views and potentially to […]