security Wireless vulns in Medtronic's implanted defibrillators allow remote shocks, shutdown, denial-of-service battery attacks and data theft Cory Doctorow

security Security researchers reveal defects that allow wireless hijacking of giant construction cranes, scrapers and excavators Cory Doctorow

security Security researcher reveals grotesque vulnerabilities in "Yelp-for-MAGA" app and its snowflake owner calls in the FBI Cory Doctorow

infosec Leaked Chinese database of 1.8 million women includes a field indicating whether they are "BreedReady" Cory Doctorow

security Defect in car security system aids carjackers, thieves Cory Doctorow

security Towards a general theory of "adversarial examples," the bizarre, hallucinatory motes in machine learning's all-seeing eye Cory Doctorow

privacy Bounty hunters and stalkers are able to track you in realtime by lying to your phone company and pretending to be cops Cory Doctorow

security Facebook forces you to expose your phone number to the whole world in order to turn on two-factor authentication Cory Doctorow

security Automated reception kiosks are a security dumpster fire Cory Doctorow

security Comcast assigned every mobile customer the same unchangeable PIN to protect against SIM hijack attacks: 0000 Cory Doctorow

security Bad security design made it easy to spy on video from Ring doorbells and insert fake video into their feeds Cory Doctorow

Business Bunnie Huang's tour-de-force explanation of how hardware implants and supply chain hacks work Cory Doctorow

Business Companies reveal mountains of sensitive commercial data in their APIs Cory Doctorow

security Security researcher warns of power company customers' passwords being stored in the clear, software provider responds with lawyer-letter Cory Doctorow

Gadgets A malicious USB cable with its own wifi rig Cory Doctorow

security "We take your privacy and security seriously" is the "thoughts and prayers" of data-breaches Cory Doctorow

Gadgets The Internet of Dongs remains a security dumpster-fire — UPDATED Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Chasing down that list of potential Predpol customers reveals dozens of cities that have secretly experimented with "predictive policing" Cory Doctorow

Kids After more than a year of inaction,one of those privacy-leaking kids' smart watches has been recalled in Europe Cory Doctorow

Kids 18 months on, kids' smart watches are STILL a privacy & security dumpster-fire, and a gift to stalkers everywhere Cory Doctorow