December 19, 2019

Get in line! 38,000 students and staff forced to queue for new passwords

It's not a bread line, and it's not a line to see Santa - it's an analog response to a nasty cyber attack.

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December 02, 2019

Convicted murderer wins ‘right to be forgotten’ case

Google must remove details of a convicted murderer from its search results in Europe following a German court ruling, it emerged last week.

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October 01, 2019

Darknet hosting provider in underground NATO bunker busted

Police overcame not only digital defenses of the "bulletproof" provider CyberBunker but also barbed wire fences and surveillance cams.

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July 17, 2019

Microsoft, Google and Apple clouds banned in Germany’s schools

Citing privacy issues, Germany just banned its schools from using Microsoft Office 365, Google Docs, and Apple's iWork cloud services.

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January 07, 2019

Hacker doxes hundreds of German politicians

For over a month, hackers published data from hundreds of German politicians in a Twitter advent calendar - a massive government assault.

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July 05, 2018

Tor-linked nonprofit raided by police

They were after the authors behind a blog calling for violent protests but didn't even bother with the authors' email provider.

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February 13, 2018

Facebook’s privacy settings are illegal, says court

Forcing real name use is illegal, as are default settings such as making profiles available to search engines so anybody can bump into them.

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December 12, 2017

Spies are watching… on LinkedIn

The young professionals portrayed in the LinkedIn listings are hot, enticing, and fictitious.

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August 09, 2017

News in brief: Venezuelan protest hacking; Hutchins released on bail; Facebook steps up moderation

Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news

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