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A smartphone smuggled out of North Korea automatically captures screenshots every five minutes and stores them in a hidden folder inaccessible to users, according to analysis by the BBC. Authorities can later review these images to monitor citizen acti…
Collection of migrants’ DNA has increased by 5,000% in three years in a ‘massive expansion of genetic surveillance’US immigration authorities are collecting and uploading the DNA information of migrants, including children, to a national criminal datab…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: If you’ve left a comment on a YouTube video, a new website claims it might be able to find every comment you’ve ever left on any video you’ve ever watched. Then an AI can build a profile of the commen…
Video games are more than entertainment; they’re a $200 billion global industry. But as gaming grows, so do cyberattacks. Hackers now see games as goldmines for stealing data, extorting companies, and exploiting players. According to Infosecurity…
Traditionally, trust came from centralized institutions. Banks, payment networks, and clearinghouses are closed systems. Users cannot see the inner workings, but they rely on external audits, government regulation, and long histories of compliance to f…
The only links are from The Daily Mail and The Mirror, but a marital affair was discovered because the cheater was recorded using his smart toothbrush at home when he was supposed to be at work.
A recent investigation by cybersecurity researchers at Oasis Security has revealed a data overreach in how Microsoft’s OneDrive…
Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed an online child safety bill, bucking a lobbying push from big tech companies that included a personal phone call from from Apple CEO Tim Cook. From a report: The measure requires app stores to verify users’ ages and se…
German sportswear giant Adidas disclosed a data breach after attackers hacked a customer service provider and stole some customers’ data. From a report: “adidas recently became aware that an unauthorized external party obtained certain consumer data th…
“In large, companies failed to self-regulate,” writes long-time Slashdot reader BrendaEM:
They have not been respected the individual’s right to privacy. In software and web interfaces, companies have buried their privacy setting so deep that they cann…