On December 5th, 2025 with 54 comments
Two Virginia brothers Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, previously convicted of hacking the U.S. State Department, were rehired as federal contractors and are now...
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On January 10th, 2025 with 18 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: A leading education software maker has admitted its IT environment was compromised in a cyberattack,...
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On April 11th, 2024 with 30 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Amid a flurry of lawsuits over AI models' training data, US Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) has...
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On February 24th, 2024 with 100 comments
Ashley Belanger reports via Ars Technica: Canada-based University of Waterloo is racing to remove M&M-branded smart vending machines from campus after...
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On November 17th, 2023 with 6 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Intercept: A joint project of Human Rights Watch and New York University to document human rights abuses in the...
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On October 2nd, 2023 with 67 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Britain's passport database could be used to catch shoplifters, burglars and other criminals under...
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On May 17th, 2022 with 83 comments
Han Bing, a former database administrator for Lianjia, a Chinese real-estate brokerage giant, has been sentenced to 7 years in prison for logging into...
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On May 12th, 2022 with 31 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) says it is investigating reports that hackers gained...
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On February 15th, 2022 with 132 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The San Francisco Police Department's crime lab has been checking DNA collected from sexual assault...
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On April 5th, 2021 with 64 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Intercept: The popular legal research and data brokerage firm LexisNexis signed a $16.8 million contract to sell...
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On August 19th, 2020 with 19 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Forbes: The security research team at Comparitech today disclosed how an unsecured database left almost 235 million...
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On August 7th, 2020 with 17 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg Law: The U.S. government charges too much for access to an electronic database of federal court records, the...
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On July 22nd, 2020 with 28 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BuzzFeed News: On July 19, genealogy enthusiasts who use the website GEDmatch to upload their DNA information and find...
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On June 23rd, 2020 with 140 comments
The state of California has lost again in its attempt to punish IMDb for ageism perpetrated by movie studios who seem to refuse to cast actresses above a...
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On January 22nd, 2020 with 45 comments
Kashmir Hill reporting for The New York Times: A mysterious company that has licensed its powerful facial recognition technology to hundreds of law...
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On January 22nd, 2020 with 32 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Microsoft disclosed today a security breach that took place last month in December 2019. In a blog post today,...
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On December 11th, 2019 with 39 comments
"The crime scene DNA sequencing company Verogen announced yesterday that they've acquired the genomics database and website GEDmatch," reports The Verge....
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On December 5th, 2019 with 58 comments
Mark Wilson shares a report from BetaNews: When it comes to the extensive and invasive use of biometric data, the USA is one of the worst offenders in the...
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On November 13th, 2019 with 63 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Intercept: For years, the New York Police Department illegally maintained a database containing the fingerprints...
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On November 12th, 2019 with 22 comments
Researchers at Intezer and IBM X-Force have detected an unconventional form of ransomware that's being deployed in targeted attacks against enterprise servers....
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On November 1st, 2019 with 35 comments
schwit1 writes: A private DNA ancestry database that's been used by police to catch criminals is a security risk from which a nation-state could steal DNA...
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On October 22nd, 2019 with 357 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Associated Press: The Trump administration is planning to collect DNA samples from asylum-seekers and other...
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On October 8th, 2019 with 23 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Wall Street Journal: Some of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's electronic surveillance activities violated the...
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On September 27th, 2019 with 40 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Science Magazine: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released new rules yesterday governing when police can use...
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On August 1st, 2019 with 76 comments
"The New York Police Department (NYPD) has been loading thousands of arrest photos of children and teenagers into a facial recognition database despite...
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On June 20th, 2019 with 33 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: A MongoDB database was left open on the internet without a password, and by doing so, exposed the personal...
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On June 10th, 2019 with 79 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: U.S. Customs and Border Protection has confirmed a data breach has exposed the photos of travelers and...
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On February 27th, 2019 with 207 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Police, social services, and health workers in Canada are using shared databases to track the behavior of...
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On February 20th, 2019 with 357 comments
technology_dude writes: One by one, thresholds are being crossed where the collection and storage of personal data is accepted as routine. Being recorded by...
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On February 2nd, 2019 with 54 comments
A Dutch security researcher says he found credentials for the Russian government's backdoor account for accessing servers of businesses operating in Russia,...
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