Court Rules the FBI Does Not Need a Warrant to Hack a Computer
2016-06-24
In one of the many ongoing legal cases surrounding a dark web child pornography site, a judge has written that the FBI did not require a warrant to hack aRead More →
Why You Should Always Log Out Of Facebook When Watching Porn
2016-06-23
Last year, we wrote about how Broadband could be banning porn in the near future, and last month the petrifying news emerged that watching porn on your phone could haveRead More →
Firm pays $950,000 penalty for using Wi-Fi signals to secretly track phone users
2016-06-23
InMobi ad network, which reaches more than 1 billion devices, settles FTC charges. A mobile advertising company that tracked the locations of hundreds of millions of consumers without consent hasRead More →
3 Million Strong Botnet Grows Right Under Twitter’s Nose
2016-06-22
There’s something fishy about this botnet. Social media and advertising fraud investigations firm Sadbottrue has discovered a botnet of three million Twitter accounts, along with two smaller botnets of 100,000 botsRead More →
‘GODLESS’ Mobile Malware Uses Multiple Exploits to Root Devices
2016-06-22
We came across a family of mobile malware called Godless (detected as ANDROIDOS_GODLESS.HRX) that has a set of rooting exploits in its pockets. By having multiple exploits to use, GodlessRead More →
Exploiting Recursion in the Linux Kernel
2016-06-21
On June 1st, I reported an arbitrary recursion bug in the Linux kernel that can be triggered by a local user on Ubuntu if the system was installed with homeRead More →
Hacker breached the Canadian Quebec Liberal Party’s video conferencing software
2016-06-20
An unnamed hacker hacked the video conferencing software used by the Quebec Liberal Party and shared the news with the media. Politicians are a privileged target of hackers, in manyRead More →
Tor Browser Integrates Tool to Fend Off Deanonymization Exploits
2016-06-20
Selfrando is an alternative to ASLR memory randomization. At the start of June, the Tor Project released version 6.5a1 of the Tor Browser, but compared to previous releases, this one alsoRead More →
FBI’s facial recognition system can access 411 million photos including foreigners
2016-06-18
Today the federal Government Accountability Office (GAO) finally published its exhaustive report on the FBI’s face recognition capabilities. The takeaway: FBI has access to hundreds of millions more photos thanRead More →
The Pirate Bay Co-Founder Slapped $395,000 Fine By Finnish Court
2016-06-18
The Pirate Bay cofounder Peter Sunde says ‘Bullying is the new Black’ after being fined $395,000 in damages to media companies The Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde has been orderedRead More →
