In a Silicon Valley town where the median home value is $2.5m, next to a university with a $22.5bn endowment, not far from a shopping mall with Burberry and Cartier outlets, they present an eye-popping sight: dozens of run-down RVs and trailers parked in a line along a main road. Their homeless inhabitants must live […]
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Google Must Alter Worldwide Search Results, Per Order from Canada’s Top Court…
A small Canadian firm has acquired an injunction against Google from the Supreme Court of Canada that is being called the first global de-indexing order. Equustek, a Vancouver-based maker of networking devices, sued a former distributor called Datalink Technologies. Equustek accused Datalink of illegally re-labelling products and stealing Equustek intellectual property to make its own […]
With a Single Wiretap Order, U.S. Authorities Listened in on 3.3M Phone Calls…
US authorities intercepted and recorded millions of phone calls last year under a single wiretap order, authorized as part of a narcotics investigation. The wiretap order authorized an unknown government agency to carry out real-time intercepts of 3.29 million cell phone conversations over a two-month period at some point during 2016, after the order was […]
New Device Allows Cops to Download All of Your Smartphone Activity in Seconds…
“Any person who operates a motor vehicle in the state shall be deemed to have given consent to field testing of his or her mobile telephone and/or personal electronic device for the purpose of determining the use thereof while operating a motor vehicle, provided that such testing is conducted by or at the direction of […]
What Is An Algorithm?…
In the modern world, algorithms do much of the digital heavy lifting. Algorithms control the inner-workings of everything from particle accelerators to stock markets. They determine the news you see, what search results you get, how computers learn, and what gets recommended to you on Netflix or Amazon. In short, as Visual Capitalist’s Nick Routley […]
EU Fines Google a Record 2.4 Billion Euros in Antitrust Case…
The European Union slapped a record 2.42 billion-euro ($2.72 billion) fine on internet giant Google on Tuesday for taking advantage of its dominance in online searches to direct customers to its own online shopping business. European regulators gave the company based in Mountain View, California, 90 days to stop or face more fines of up […]
This House IT Story Gets Stranger and Stranger: House Dems Hired a Fired McDonald’s Worker as Their IT Guy…
Multiple members of Congress hired as their information technology (IT) administrator an individual whose most recent job experience was being fired from McDonald’s, The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group has learned. Spokesmen for the members won’t say what their bosses knew at the time, but the hiring decisions highlight the role — witting or […]
Petya Ransomware Spreading Rapidly Worldwide, Just Like WannaCry…
Watch out, readers! It is ransomware, another WannaCry, another wide-spread attack. The WannaCry ransomware is not dead yet and another large scale ransomware attack is making chaos worldwide, shutting down computers at corporates, power supplies, and banks across Russia, Ukraine, Spain, France, UK, India, and Europe and demanding $300 in bitcoins…
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REPORT: Prior to Snowden, NSA Had No Clue How Many Were Approved to Download Top Secret Info…
The National Security Agency did not know how many officials were authorized to download and transfer top secret data from its servers prior to the high-profile leaks by former contractor Edward Snowden, according to a recently declassified government report. The NSA was also unsuccessful in attempts to meaningfully cut the number of officials with “privileged” […]
Private Investigators: Seth Rich Murder Evidence Vanishing…
Several online accounts belonging to murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich have been deleted in recent weeks, according to team of private, nonpartisan investigators working on the case. Attorney and lobbyist Jack Burkman, who is funding the independent investigation, filed an emergency motion Wednesday to require police to “preserve, protect and properly organize the all-important online […]
Websites Found Collecting Data from Online Forms Even Before You Click Submit…
‘Do I really need to give this website so much about me?’ That’s exactly what I usually think after filling but before submitting a web form online asking for my personal details to continue. I am sure most of you would either close the whole tab or would edit already typed details (or filled up […]
No, WannaCry Is Not Dead! Hits Honda & Traffic Light Camera System…
It’s been over a month since the WannaCry ransomware caused chaos worldwide and people have started counting its name as ‘the things of past,’ but…WannaCry is not DEAD! The self-spreading ransomware is still alive and is working absolutely fine. The latest victims of WannaCry are Honda Motor Company and 55 speed and traffic light cameras […]
REPORT: WikiLeaks Disclosures on Iraq, Afghanistan Did Not Damage U.S….
The whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, providing access to classified intelligence, military and diplomatic documents, has been making headlines since its creation. The US government was hunting and prosecuting whistleblowers, saying the leaks pose a huge threat to national security. But it turns out that the leaked data, specifically on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, was not […]
Independent Group Releases New Report on Seth Rich Murder Investigation…
DNC worker Seth Rich was murdered in the Bloomingdale neighborhood of D.C. 11 months ago and his killer is still on the loose. Now, a group of George Washington University graduate students calling themselves the Profiling Project are releasing a report on their own investigation into Rich’s murder. The Profiling Project doesn’t buy it. A […]
Leaked Recording: Inside Apple’s Global War on Leakers…
A recording of an internal briefing at Apple earlier this month obtained by The Outline sheds new light on how far the most valuable company in the world will go to prevent leaks about new products. The briefing, titled “Stopping Leakers – Keeping Confidential at Apple,” was led by Director of Global Security David Rice, […]
President Trump Roundtable with the American Technology Council (VIDEO and Transcript)…
Earlier this evening President Trump participated in a roundtable with technology executives as part of an administration effort to bring the operational and organizational objectives of the federal government into the 21st century. The overall goal of the administration is to increase federal efficiency standards, reduce the size of government through elimination of bureaucratic waste, […]
Amazon Granted a Patent That Prevents In-Store Shoppers from Online Price Checking…
Amazon’s long been a go-to for people to online price compare while shopping at brick-and-mortars. Now, a new patent granted to the company could prevent people from doing just that inside Amazon’s own stores. The patent, titled “Physical Store Online Shopping Control,” details a mechanism where a retailer can intercept network requests like URLs and […]
Republican Data-Mining Firm Exposed Personal Information for Virtually Every American Voter…
The GOP’s 2016 presidential upset wasn’t surprising just because it put Donald Trump in the White House; it also proved the party had vastly improved its ability to exploit data, including precision ad targeting campaigns on Facebook. Now comes the fallout of all that information hoarding: A California-based security researcher says Republican-linked election databases were […]
Hospital Sends Legal Threats to Researcher, Then Asks for Her Help Identifying Breach Victims…
Shooting the messenger is the most popular response to reported data breach, making the job of security researcher far more dangerous than it should ever be. The twist in the latest “shoot the messenger” story is the shooter coming back around to ask the shooting victim for help. Bad idea. Even if the body is […]
WikiLeaks Releases CIAs ‘Cherry Blossom’ Project Docs: Shows CIA Has Been Hacking WiFi Routers For Years…
Today, June 15th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes documents from the CherryBlossom project of the CIA that was developed and implemented with the help of the US nonprofit Stanford Research Institute (SRI International). CherryBlossom provides a means of monitoring the Internet activity of and performing software exploits on Targets of interest. In particular, CherryBlossom is focused on […]
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