Data Breach at Planned Parenthood Lab Partner Exposes Info of 1.6M
Data breach at Laboratory Services Cooperative (LSC) exposed the sensitive health and personal information of 1.6 million individuals…
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Kaspersky Shares 12 Essential Tips for Messaging App Security and Privacy
In an era where instant messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, iMessage, Viber, and WeChat dominate personal and professional communication, digital privacy and security have never been more critical. To help users keep their accounts secure a…
Google Eyes User Browsing Data Search in New Patent Filing
Tech giant Google may soon help users find content they’ve previously seen, not by searching the web but by scanning their own digital history.
DIRNSA Fired
In “Secrets and Lies” (2000), I wrote:
It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.
It’s something a bunch of us were saying at the time, in reference to the vast NSA’s surveillance capabilities.
I have been thinking of that quote a lot as I read news stories of President Trump firing the Director of the National Security Agency. General Timothy Haugh.
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote:
We don’t know what pressure the Trump administration is using to make intelligence services fall into line, but it isn’t crazy to …
Benefits from privacy investment are greater than the cost
Cisco released its 2025 Data Privacy Benchmark Study. The report looks at global trends in data privacy and how they affect businesses. The study gathered responses from 2,600 privacy and security experts in 12 countries. It highlights the need for str…
AI Image Site GenNomis Exposed 47GB of Underage Deepfakes
Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler uncovers a massive 47.8GB database with disturbing AI-generated content belonging to GenNomis.
Floppy disks and vaccine cards: exhibition tells tale of privacy rights in UK
Forty items on display in Manchester, collated by information commissioner, chart evolution of personal data usage over 40 yearsForty years ago, it would take a four-drawer filing cabinet to store 10,000 documents. You would need 736 floppy disks to ho…
Aura or LifeLock: Who Offers Better Identity Protection in 2025?
The Growing Threat of Digital Identity Theft Identity theft is a continuous online threat that lurks behind every…
Alleged Deel Spy Confesses To Coordinating with Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz
Newcomer: Keith O’Brien, the man who allegedly spied for Deel while working at Rippling, is apparently clearing his conscience, according to a sworn Irish affidavit. O’Brien says in the affidavit that Deel paid him to spy on Rippling and that he coordi…
Google is making sending end-to-end encrypted emails easy
Sending end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) emails from Gmail enterprise accounts is about to become much easier than it is now, Google has announced on Tuesday. The company will first make available this simplified capability to users who want to send E2EE em…