On March 18th, 2026 with 63 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Musi, a free music streaming app that had tens of millions of iPhone downloads and garnered plenty of...
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On February 26th, 2026 with 7 comments
A Greek court has convicted four individuals linked to the marketing of Predator spyware in the wiretapping scandal that shook the country in 2022. The BBC...
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On January 30th, 2026 with 56 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from SecurityWeek: The White House has announced that software security guidance issued during the Biden administration has...
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On January 7th, 2026 with 3 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The founder of a U.S.-based spyware company, whose surveillance products allowed customers to spy on the...
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On December 31st, 2025 with 35 comments
Reuters reports that the United States Department of the Treasury under the Donald Trump administration has lifted sanctions on three executives linked to the...
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On November 5th, 2025 with 90 comments
A bungled October 18 heist that saw $102 million of crown jewels stolen from the Louvre in broad daylight has exposed years of lax security at the national art...
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On November 4th, 2025 with 6 comments
A massive cyberattack on Swedish IT supplier Miljodata exposed personal data from up to 1.5 million citizens, prompting a national privacy investigation and...
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On March 18th, 2025 with 106 comments
The Dutch parliament approved motions urging the government to reduce reliance on U.S. software companies by developing a sovereign cloud platform and...
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On January 27th, 2025 with 47 comments
chicksdaddy share a report from the Security Ledger: Vulnerabilities in Subaru's STARLINK telematics software enabled two, independent security researchers to...
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On January 16th, 2025 with 13 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: On Tuesday, the United Nations Security Council held a meeting to discuss the dangers of commercial...
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On October 26th, 2024 with 78 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Delta Air Lines on Friday sued cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike in a Georgia state court after a global outage...
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On September 18th, 2024 with 66 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to consider two bills Thursday that would effectively...
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On July 19th, 2024 with 98 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Record: When Florida real estate professional Susan Hicks discovered the app Forewarn over a year ago, she was...
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On June 28th, 2024 with 36 comments
Samantha Cole reports via 404 Media: A woman is suing Microsoft and two major U.S. sex toy retailers with claims that their websites are tracking users...
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On March 5th, 2024 with 36 comments
Piracy was traditionally seen as something that predominantly young males were interested in. This is a largely outdated representation of reality, as girls...
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On February 16th, 2024 with 47 comments
Lauren Feiner reports via The Verge: Reps. Mark Takano (D-CA) and Dwight Evans (D-PA) reintroduced the Justice in Forensic Algorithms Act on Thursday, which...
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On December 20th, 2023 with 60 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Rite Aid has been banned from using facial recognition software for five years, after the Federal Trade...
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On April 25th, 2023 with 111 comments
In a blog post today, the Free Software Foundation is calling on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to provide free/libre tax-filing software for Americans to...
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On February 3rd, 2023 with 8 comments
Password management company Dashlane has made its mobile app code available on GitHub for public perusal, a first step it says in a broader push to make its...
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On January 9th, 2023 with 198 comments
AmiMoJo writes: Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko has signed a new law that legalizes piracy of movies, music, TV shows and software owned by...
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On December 29th, 2022 with 99 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from KOMO: Ermenildo Castro, 28, of Tacoma, allegedly told detectives that he was inspired by the 90's movie "Office...
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On December 12th, 2022 with 23 comments
Tax authorities from Australia, Canada, France, the UK and the USA have conducted a joint probe into "electronic sales suppression software" -- applications...
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On November 23rd, 2022 with 87 comments
The U.S. Navy was found guilty of piracy and is ordered to pay a software company $154,400 for a lawsuit filed back in 2016. Gizmodo reports: The company,...
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On November 16th, 2022 with 31 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Privacy-focused search site DuckDuckGo has added yet another way to prevent more of your data from going...
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On October 18th, 2022 with 110 comments
"Everyone visiting Qatar for the World Cup needs to install spyware on their phone," writes security researcher Bruce Schneier. His comments are in response to...
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On September 14th, 2022 with 9 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: FishPig, a UK-based maker of e-commerce software used by as many as 200,000 websites, is urging...
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On July 19th, 2022 with 6 comments
NSO Group's Pegasus spyware was used to target Thai pro-democracy protesters and leaders calling for reforms to the monarchy. "We forensically confirmed that...
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On June 29th, 2022 with 40 comments
A leader of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission said he has asked Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their app stores over China-related data...
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On May 31st, 2022 with 23 comments
IBM must pay $1.6 billion to BMC Software for swapping in its own software while servicing their mutual client, a Houston federal judge ruled. From a report:...
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On May 12th, 2022 with 7 comments
The F.B.I. informed the Israeli government in a 2018 letter that it had purchased Pegasus, the notorious hacking tool, to collect data from mobile phones to...
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