April 08, 2020

As if the world couldn’t get any weirder, this AI toilet scans your anus to identify you

It's what the researchers call "A mountable toilet system for personalized health monitoring via the analysis of excreta."

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February 19, 2020

Private photos leaked by PhotoSquared’s unsecured cloud storage

With no password required and no encryption in place, a burglar or ID thief could have seen your photos, your address and more.

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February 18, 2020

Sensitive plastic surgery images exposed online

Researchers at VPN advisory company vpnMentor have found yet another online data exposure caused by a misconfigured cloud database.

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February 12, 2020

Data about inmates and jail staff spilled by leaky prison app

A web-mapping project came across detainees' prescriptions and other PII that could be used by identity thieves to victimize prisoners.

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February 05, 2020

Someone else may have your videos, Google tells users

As the well-worn internet saying goes - there is no cloud, it’s just someone else’s computer.

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December 05, 2019

iCloud-hacking politician to be sentenced on Christmas eve

Former Dutch city council member Mitchel van der K invaded hundreds of iCloud accounts “frequently and repeatedly”.

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November 28, 2019

Ransomware attack freezes health records access at 110 nursing homes

In some cases, nurses can’t update and order drugs. For one assisted-living facility, lack of timely Medicaid billing could force closure.

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October 22, 2019

Storing your stuff securely in the cloud

How much of our stuff is going to the cloud? Probably a lot more than you realize. Let's look at the risks and how to mitigate them.

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September 17, 2019

Teen music hacker arrested in UK for stealing bands’ unreleased music

"If he's guilty, he'll face the music." Heh.

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