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University implies they helped FBI break Tor protection because of a subpoena

Carnegie Mellon University has finally issued a statement commenting on the recent accusations that their researchers have aided the FBI to unmask a subset of Tor users …

Mass adoption of mobile payment services derailed by security, privacy concerns

Evaluating the mobile payment preferences of 1,217 consumers from the U.S., a new Research Now survey revealed that 17 percent of respondents who did not make holiday …

A Jihadi Help Desk assists ISIS terrorists and sympathizers with encryption?

The recent Paris attacks by ISIS have become the perfect pretext for governments to resume their attack on encryption.Even though the New York Times pulled an article blaming …

Cross-device tracking via imperceptible audio beacons threatens user privacy

As consumers use multiple devices through the day, and tracking cookies become increasingly less effective, the advertising industry is looking for new ways to track …

Video: General Data Protection Regulation, Safe Harbor Agreement, Copyright reform and the Google case

After having been ruled invalid by the ECJ, the Safe Habor Agreement is now back in the spotlight as the Commission has finally issued a communication on the Trans-Atlantic …

Database of 70 million prisoner phone calls breached, leaked

A vast collection containing metadata of over 70 million records of phone calls placed by prisoners to at least 37 US states and links to actual recordings for each call has …

Researchers hack Vizio Smart TVs to access home network

Not only do Vizio’s Smart TVs track users’ viewing habits by default (and that information is sold to third parties who can then use it to deliver targeted ads to …

Tor Project claims FBI paid university researchers $1m to unmask Tor users

Have Carnegie Mellon University researchers been paid by the FBI to unmask a subset of Tor users so that the agents could discover who operated Silk Road 2.0 and other …

Comcast resets passwords for 200,000 users after login credentials go on sale

Over the weekend, someone has been peddling a batch of 590,000 email address/password combinations allegedly belonging to Comcast customers. The price set for the lot was 3.23 …

Vizio Smart TVs track your viewing habits, info is sold to third parties

Owners of Smart TVs manufactured by California-based consumer electronics company Vizio should be aware that their viewing habits are being tracked and that information sold …

ProtonMail restores services after epic DDoS attacks

After several days of intense work, Switzerland-based end-to-end encrypted e-mail provider ProtonMail has largely mitigated the DDoS attacks that made it unavailable for hours …

Beware of Apple-themed phishing emails threatening to limit your account

A new email phishing campaign is targeting businesses and consumers who have Apple IDs, trying to get them to enter their Apple login credentials, personal and credit card …

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