Antitrust battle latest: Google, Facebook 'colluded' to smash Apple's privacy protections
Amended Texas complaint alleges backroom efforts to maintain ad dominance and more
22 Oct 2021 | 27
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It's 'near-impossible to escape persistent surveillance' by American ISPs, says FTC
Watchdog finds dubious data gathering, illusory solicitations for consent
22 Oct 2021 | 19
How your phone, laptop, or watch can be tracked by their Bluetooth transmissions
Unique fingerprints lurk in radio signals more often than not, it seems
22 Oct 2021 | 20
Google trims the cut its Play Store takes from digital subscriptions, ebooks, music streaming
But with 97 per cent of Android devs offering free software, web giant's share of mobile ad spend matters more
21 Oct 2021 | 4
Theranos blood-test machine demos for VIPs rigged to hide any failures, court told
Error messages effectively piped to /dev/null, it is alleged
21 Oct 2021 | 45
Uncle Sam to clip wings of Pegasus-like spyware – sorry, 'intrusion software' – with proposed export controls
Surveillance tech faces trade limits as America syncs policy with treaty obligations
20 Oct 2021 | 18
You've heard of HTTPS. Now get a load of HTTPA: Web services in verified remote trusted environments?
Intel duo propose fresh use of, yes, SGX but also Arm's TrustZone and similar TEEs
20 Oct 2021 | 17
Google Pixel 6, 6 Pro Android 12 smartphone launch marred by shopping cart crashes
Chocolate Factory talks up Tensor mobile SoC, Titan M2 security ... for those who can get them
19 Oct 2021 | 24
If your apps or gadgets break down on Sunday, this may be why: Gpsd bug to roll back clocks to 2002
Alternative headline: Yet another widely used project maintained thanklessly by 'some random person in Nebraska'
19 Oct 2021 | 56
Apple arms high-end MacBook Pro notebooks with M1 Pro, M1 Max processors
x86 is an eighty-sixed ex
18 Oct 2021 | 103
Amazon textbook rental service scammed for $1.5m
Michigan man arrested for borrowing costly textbooks and selling them
15 Oct 2021 | 45
Computer scientists at University of Edinburgh contemplate courses without 'Alice' and 'Bob'
Academics advised to consider excluding certain terminology for the sake of inclusivity
15 Oct 2021 | 284
Client-side content scanning as an unworkable, insecure disaster for democracy
Hopefully we're still listening to experts
15 Oct 2021 | 60
WhatsApp's got your back(ups) with encryption for stored messages
Global messaging giant extends security and privacy to Google Drive and Apple iCloud
14 Oct 2021 | 6
Apple warns sideloading iOS apps will ruin everything
Analysis Opening the iOS ecosystem to competition would harm security and privacy, company says
14 Oct 2021 | 132
Amazon India accused of copying merchant products and juicing search results to sell its own knockoffs
Report claims documents show employees abusing access
13 Oct 2021 | 14
Android OS vendor variants transmit data with no opt-out
Updated Study finds privacy gaps in Android implementations from Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, Realme, and LineageOS
13 Oct 2021 | 62
Microsoft Patch Tuesday bug harvest festival comes to town
With 71 new CVEs, there are patches enough for everyone
12 Oct 2021 | 8
Google Cloud will let you know how your workloads are damaging the environment
Google Cloud Next '21 brings Distributed Edge, emissions metrics, and a Cybersecurity Action Team
12 Oct 2021 | 7
Google's Privacy Budget doesn't add up, says Mozilla CTO - amazingly enough
Chocolate Factory says its fingerprinting spec is unfinished
11 Oct 2021 | 15
Maker of ATM bombing tutorials blew himself up – Euro cops
Vid filming ended in deadly disaster
02 Oct 2021 | 155
One-character bug gives away $90m in COMP tokens – recipients can keep 10% or consider themselves doxxed
Hand back the money or I'm letting the IRS know, says DeFi biz boss
01 Oct 2021 | 43
Revealed: How to steal money from victims' contactless Apple Pay wallets
Updated Boffins devise tricks to dupe stolen or nearby iPhones into paying out when in transit mode and using Visa
30 Sep 2021 | 57
What do iOS and Android have in common? Their apps suck at privacy, boffins say
Plus 'widespread potential violations of US, EU, UK privacy law' as an added bonus
30 Sep 2021 | 21
