Since 2010, the National Security Agency has been exploiting its huge collections of data to create sophisticated graphs of some Americans’ social connections that can identify their associates, their locations at certain times, their traveling companions and other personal information, according to newly disclosed documents and interviews with officials, an investigation by The New York Times has revealed.
It's widely understood that the ads Google puts in Gmail are based on the content of e-mails. The millions of Gmail users presumably accept the company's promise that "no humans read your e-mail."
The NSA has released some details of 12 incidents in which analysts used their access to America’s high-tech surveillance infrastructure to spy on girlfriends, boyfriends, and random people they met in social settings. It’s a fascinating look at what happens when the impulse that drives average netizens to look up long-ago ex-lovers on Facebook is mated with the power to fire up a wiretap with a few keystrokes.
An identity theft service that sells Social Security numbers, birth records, credit and background reports on millions of Americans has infiltrated computers at some of America’s largest consumer and business data aggregators, according to a seven-month investigation by KrebsOnSecurity.
In this digital age when our whole lives are online, it is no surprise that security has become an increasing concern of many. Whilst you're busy worrying about your privacy settings on Facebook and whether your boss is able to see your status updates, there are more pressing issues at hand. Your social media profile that you so religiously update daily with your latest purchases and your check-ins to fancy restaurants makes you a perfect target for cyber criminals.
Ars expressed surprise on Monday that a hacker was able to bypass fingerprint protection less than 48 hours after its debut in Apple's newest iPhone, but not everyone felt the same way. The hack, carried out by well-known German hacker Starbug, required too much expertise and pricey equipment to make it practical, according to critics.
A Virginia Tech official Tuesday blamed human error for a data breach that may have exposed sensitive data on about 145,000 people who applied online for jobs at the school over the past 10 years.
The compromised data includes names, addresses, employment and education history -- and data on prior convictions. In the case of about 16,650 individuals, the compromised data includes driver's license numbers.
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Countries that have pledged to support Internet freedom should allow technology vendors to report the number of electronic surveillance requests they receive, a tech advocacy group said Thursday.
The Global Network Initiative, whose members include Facebook, Google and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, has made the request to the 21 governments in the Freedom Online Coalition.
Belgium’s main phone operator said Monday its systems have been hacked in what the government described as a suspected incident of cyber-espionage.
Initial information points toward a sophisticated system of intrusion not for sabotage purposes but for “strategic information gathering” with the technology used suggesting “a high-level involvement by another country,” Belgian Prime Minister Elio di Rupo said in a statement.
