China’s Police State Targets Zero-Covid Protesters
It was another busy week in security that saw big news about protests, surveillance, spyware, data breaches, and more. In the US, recent […]
Tag: Security / Privacy
Google Moves to Block Invasive Spanish Spyware Framework
The commercial spyware industry has increasingly come under fire for selling powerful surveillance tools to anyone who can pay, from governments to […]
Apple Tracks You More Than You Think
Cybersecurity startup Corellium offered or sold its software to spyware and hacking-tool creators in multiple repressive countries, a WIRED investigation revealed this week. […]
Redacted Documents Are Not as Secure as You Think
“Even if you do the redaction, supposedly correctly, even if you remove the text, there’s a lot of latent information that is […]
A Leak Details Apple’s Secret Dirt on Corellium, a Trusted Security Startup
Zach Edwards, an independent privacy and security researcher, says that “sensitive technology cannot be haphazardly sold to any company, in any country […]
A Destabilizing Hack-and-Leak Operation Hits Moldova
It was a truly wild week in the tech industry as new details emerged about the FTX cryptocurrency exchange’s collapse and Elon […]
Telehealth Sites Put Addiction Patient Data at Risk
Lisa McLaughlin, co-CEO of WorkIt Health, says her company “is committed to creating a safe place for our members to receive discreet […]
Inside the ‘Election Integrity App’ Built to Purge US Voter Rolls
Ten days before Georgia’s Senate runoff election in 2021, Gamaliel Warren Turner Sr., a 69-year-old veteran, found out that someone in his […]
The Secret Ballot Is US Democracy’s Last Line of Defense
Though foreign Disinformation campaigns have targeted the 2022 United States midterm elections to a degree, most of the pressure on US voting […]
TikTok Admits Staff in China Can Access Europeans’ Data
Open internet proponents were relieved last month when an American candidate beat a Russian challenger in an election to run the International […]