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TechDirt: “Last year almost a dozen major U.S. ISPs were the victim of a massive, historic intrusion by Chinese hackers who managed to spy on public U.S. officials for more than a year. The “Salt Typhoon” hack was so severe, the intruders spent much of the last year rooting around the ISP networks even after discovery. AT&T and …
PC World – “How to see if you’re affected. Have I Been Pwned just acquired a huge collection of unique email addresses and passwords that have been leaked and/or stolen. Security expert Troy Hunt, who operates Have I Been Pwned, recently received 2 billion unique email addresses that were found across multiple malicious lists and …
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TechDirt: “We’ve long established that modern “smart” devices aren’t always all that smart. Whether it’s “smart” door locks that are easily hacked to gain entry, “smart” refrigerators that leak your Gmail credentials, or “smart” vehicles that sell data to insurance companies without your permission, the act of modernizing something with internet access and a CPU …
404 Media: “Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has publicly released an app that Sheriff Offices, police departments, and other local or regional law enforcement can use to scan someone’s face as part of immigration enforcement, 404 Media has learned. The news follows Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) use of another internal Department of Homeland Security …
FAS – “Below you’ll find a roundup of the spookiest federal data losses across USDA, SAMHSA, EPA, FEMA, and OMB. This carousel is not for the faint of heart, but I also wrote some context –and it’s not all doom and gloom. Read more here in the Federation of American Scientists blog: https://lnkd.in/eF-yD9Qf – Visit the …
404 Media: “Most people probably have no idea that when you book a flight through major travel websites, a data broker owned by U.S. airlines then sells details about your flight, including your name, credit card used, and where you’re flying to the government. The data broker has compiled billions of ticketing records the government …
Ars Technica: “Last month, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine archived its trillionth webpage, and the nonprofit invited its more than 1,200 library partners and 800,000 daily users to join a celebration of the moment. To honor “three decades of safeguarding the world’s online heritage,” the city of San Francisco declared October 22 to be “Internet …
ZDNET – Opt-out of AI: “Google somewhat buries a Gemini toggle in settings. If you know where to look, you can find it and turn off Gemini in Gmail, Google Docs, Google Photos, and every other Google product you know and love. Here’s how…”
Via LLRX – The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health, and the Rule of Law – Part 4 – This the fourth in a series by Sabrina I. Pacifici documenting the Trump administration’s relentless attacks against science, medicine and public health, government sponsored data collection and reporting, climate science, and censorship of government …
404 Media – No Paywall: “You don’t got no ID?” a Border Patrol agent in a baseball cap, sunglasses, and neck gaiter asks a kid on a bike. The officer and three others had just stopped the two young men on their bikes during the day in what a video documenting the incident says is Chicago. …
EFF: Viewpoint-based Online Surveillance of Permanent Residents and Visa Holders Violates First Amendment, Lawsuit Argues. The United Automobile Workers (UAW), Communications Workers of America (CWA), and American Federation of Teachers (AFT) filed a lawsuit today against the Departments of State and Homeland Security for their viewpoint-based surveillance and suppression of protected expression online. The complaint …
