January 07, 2020

IT exec sets up fake biz to scam his employer out of $6m

He cooked up an IT vendor, its invoices, its vapor-gear, and the phantom employees who never showed up to do all those services.

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August 29, 2019

Microsoft may still be violating privacy rules, says Dutch regulator

EU data watchdogs are yet again sniffing at Windows 10.

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November 02, 2017

Mr. Robot eps3.3_metadata.par2 – the security review

We're looking at how Mr Robot's treatment of security stacked up in s3 e4

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August 24, 2017

Verizon: US government requests for phone records on the up

Cellphone provider warns that it's increasingly being asked to provide huge and broad data dumps - such as records of every phone that passed by a given tower

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July 06, 2016

The Dark Web: just how dark is it?

Tor is "the onion router" because it hides your journey. But it doesn't stop you saying things you shouldn't once you arrive.

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May 17, 2016

Basic phone logs can reveal intimate details, study finds

Using call and text logs, Stanford researchers gleaned names, partners' names, where people live, someone's plans to grow cannabis, and more.

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March 18, 2016

What your encrypted data says about you

Your encrypted traffic could tell the government (or the crooks) more than you think, no decryption required.

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May 08, 2015

NSA metadata collection is illegal, rules US court

Three appeal court judges have ruled that the NSA's bulk collection of metadata went far beyond the original intent of the Patriot Act.

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January 22, 2015

Whisper editor’s out the door after scandal, internal investigation

The internal investigation into the secret-sharing app's use and/or abuse of users' data didn't find any wrongdoing, but plenty of questions are still unanswered.

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