Security News

ProtonMail Accused of Voluntarily Helping Police Spy on Users
2019-05-30 13:56

Privacy-focused email service ProtonMail has been accused of voluntarily helping law enforcement spy on users. The company has denied the accusations. read more

Amazon Shareholders Support Selling Face Recognition Tech to Police
2019-05-23 00:59

Amazon on Wednesday confirmed that shareholders rejected proposals to prohibit sales of facial recognition technology to governments and study how it might threaten privacy or civil rights. read more

San Francisco bans police use of facial recognition
2019-05-16 12:29

The city that gave us facial recognition tech says "not in my back yard".

San Francisco Bans Facial Recognition Use by Police
2019-05-15 01:38

San Francisco on Tuesday became the first US city to ban use of facial recognition technology by police or other government agencies. Backers of the legislation argued that using software and...

Dark web marketplace Wall Street Market busted by international police
2019-05-07 09:59

It went down in flames, with a rogue admin blackmailing vendors and buyers and leaking login credentials and the IP address.

German Police Shut Down Major 'Darknet' Illegal Trading Site
2019-05-03 11:34

German police have shut down one of the world's largest illegal online markets in the so-called darkweb and arrested the three men allegedly running it, prosecutors said Friday. The operation...

Police and NCSC to Breach Victims: We Won't Tell Regulators
2019-04-26 13:48

Incident Responders and Law Enforcement Promise Firewall With GDPR WatchdogNearly one year after the EU's new privacy law came into effect, the U.K.'s National Cyber Security Agency continues to...

Google’s location history data shared routinely with police
2019-04-16 10:22

Law enforcement officials in the US have been routinely mining Google’s location history data for criminal investigations.

Is there a link between videogaming and cybercrime? Police think so
2019-04-15 12:42

UK police are planning to issue online warnings to young gamers hoping to deter them from a life of cybercrime, they revealed last week.

Google Helps Police Identify Devices Close to Crime Scenes Using Location Data
2019-04-15 12:03

It's no secret that Google tracks you everywhere, even when you keep Google's Location History feature disabled. As revealed by an Associated Press investigation in 2018, other Google apps like...