security Study: Popular iOS apps use 'background app refresh' to send your location and IP address Xeni Jardin
security Analysis of a far-right disinformation campaign aimed at influencing the EU elections Cory Doctorow
Business Real estate title insurance company exposed 885,000,000 customers' records, going back 16 years: bank statements, drivers' licenses, SSNs, and tax records Cory Doctorow
security HACKED: Perceptics, license plate reader provider for US Border Patrol at Mexico border Xeni Jardin
security In less than one second, a malicious web-page can uniquely fingerprint an Iphone, Pixel 2 or Pixel 3 without any explicit user interaction Cory Doctorow
corruption The government of Baltimore has been taken hostage by ransomware and may remain shut down for weeks Cory Doctorow
security Research shows that 2FA and other basic measures are incredibly effective at preventing account hijacking Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Sleuthing from public sources to figure out how the Hateful Eight leaker was caught Cory Doctorow
Business Grifty "information security" companies promised they could decrypt ransomware-locked computers, but they were just quietly paying the ransoms Cory Doctorow
security Discovering whether your Iphone has been hacked is nearly impossible thanks to Apple's walled garden Cory Doctorow
Business A year after Meltdown and Spectre, security researchers are still announcing new serious risks from low-level chip operations Cory Doctorow
security DOJ accuses Verizon and AT&T employees of participating in SIM-swap identity theft crimes Cory Doctorow
