Security News

Printers all over the US “hacked” to spew anti-Semitic fliers (Help Net Security)
2016-03-29 18:07

Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer, one of the two men who were prosecuted and convicted for harvesting e-mails and authentication IDs of 114,000 early-adopters of Apple’s iPad from AT&T’s servers, is back...

Mass Surveillance Silences Minority Opinions (Schneier on Security)
2016-03-29 17:58

Research paper: Elizabeth Stoycheff, "Under Surveillance: Examining Facebook's Spiral of Silence Effects in the Wake of NSA Internet Monitoring": Abstract: Since Edward Snowden exposed the...

Truecaller Fixes Data Leaking Hole in Android App (Threatpost)
2016-03-29 16:55

Truecaller, an app that specializes in phone call management, has patched a hole that inadvertently leaked user information.

US govt has unlocked San Bernardino gunman’s iPhone (Help Net Security)
2016-03-29 16:15

The US Department of Justice has found a way to get into the iPhone 5C owned by Syed Farook, one of the San Bernardino shooters. With a short status report filed with the Central California...