Privacy

A fresh batch of leaked documents reportedly stolen from the computer networks of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) has been released online and include opposition research, political donor lists and internal memos.

The files were released by a hacker known as Guccifer 2.0, who has previously leaked sensitive information from the internal Democratic Party networks, including over 200 files relating to presumptive presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and a research dossier on her opponent, Donald Trump.

Anonymity networks protect people living under repressive regimes from surveillance of their Internet use. But the recent discovery of vulnerabilities in the most popular of these networks — Tor — has prompted computer scientists to try to come up with more secure anonymity schemes.

LTE is a more advanced mobile network but not absolutely secure.

In this presentation, we will introduce a method which jointly exploits the vulnerabilities in tracking area update procedure, attach procedure, and RRC redirection procedure in LTE networks resulting in the ability to force a targeted LTE cellphone to downgrade into a malicious GSM network where an attacker can subsequently eavesdrop its voice calls and GPRS data.

Backdoors into encrypted communications may soon be mandatory in Russia.

A new bill in the Russian Duma, the country's lower legislative house, proposes to make cryptographic backdoors mandatory in all messaging apps in the country so the Federal Security Service—the successor to the KGB—can obtain special access to all communications within the country.

A new GAO report blasts the FBI over concerns for privacy and accuracy of its facial recognition systems and its huge database of photographs. The FBI facial recognition program has access to over 411 million photographs gathered from state driver's license databases as well as from passport and visa applications.

You may have left Myspace and its indie bands behind years ago, but Myspace hasn’t forgotten you. Or rather, it hasn’t forgotten your password, which is unfortunate, because it just revealed that a hacker stole username and password infomation from what could be more than 360 million accounts.

Nearly a year after the initial launch, Facebook has launched a new version of its Moments photo-sharing tool for Europe and Canada, and there's one very important difference from its US counterpart: the European version of the app won't scan your face.

A Southern California woman was recently ordered to provide her fingerprint to unlock a seized iPhone, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times.

A US congressman has learned first-hand just how vulnerable cellphones are to eavesdropping and geographic tracking after hackers were able to record his calls and monitor his movements using nothing more than the public ten-digit phone number associated with the handset he used.