LA Police Collected Social Media Account Info From People They Talked To I’m sure they were just curious. The LA police watchdog says that officers were instructed to collect civilians’ social media details when they interviewed them. An Email from the Chief dating back to 2015. He said it could be beneficial to investigations and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Apple has always said that they are privacy focused and they usually are except when they are not. Here is a case where they are and if you do email marketing, it is going to spell trouble. Version 15 of the iPhone, Mac and Watch OSes are coming out on September 20th. For users of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Signal Provides Customer IP Address to Swiss Police While police all over the world complain about the universe going dark on them, that is only true to an extent. Proton maintains no logs, but they can capture data in real time. In this case they received an order from the Swiss Federal Department of Justice, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design have published details about BrakTooth, a new family of security vulnerabilities in Bluetooth software implementations. They assessed 13 Bluetooth devices from about a dozen vendors including Intel, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments and Cypress and found 16 vulnerabilities. On the good side, they can cause a denial of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well, we assume that it is. After all, we think our data is sold all the time. But mega-data-company Thompson Reuters ran across a judge that disagrees. We shall see where the appeals go. The case hinges on a product that TR sells called CLEAR. If you sign up as a CLEAR customer then you […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]One possible answer is that they wanted to steal your email, impersonate you and use your email accounts to send spam and malware. This is certainly possible, but there is another, more sinister possibility. What if – China was looking for mountains of data to train its AI systems? The attacks gave them tens of […]
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