Security News

Cisco ‘Knowingly’ Sold Hackable Video Surveillance System to U.S. Government
2019-08-01 09:18

Cisco Systems has agreed to pay $8.6 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the company of knowingly selling video surveillance system containing severe security vulnerabilities to the U.S....

Researchers Discover Android Surveillance Malware Built by Sanctioned Russian Firm
2019-07-26 15:00

Mobile security firm Lookout has discovered a new set of sophisticated custom Android surveillanceware tools developed and distributed by a Russian-based company. read more

Palantir's Surveillance Service for Law Enforcement
2019-07-15 11:12

Motherboard got its hands on Palantir's Gotham user's manual, which is used by the police to get information on people: The Palantir user guide shows that police can start with almost no...

Facial recognition surveillance must be banned, says Fight for the Future
2019-07-11 12:54

“We don’t need to regulate it, we need to ban it entirely.”

We are shocked to learn that China, an oppressive surveillance state, puts spyware on foreigners' phones
2019-07-02 19:55

Border police accused of loading visitors' mobiles up with snoop app in Muslim area Authorities in a tumultuous region of China have been accused of loading spyware onto the phones of people visiting.…

Data, Surveillance, and the AI Arms Race
2019-06-17 10:52

According to foreign policy experts and the defense establishment, the United States is caught in an artificial intelligence arms race with China -- one with serious implications for national...

Computers and Video Surveillance
2019-06-14 17:04

It used to be that surveillance cameras were passive. Maybe they just recorded, and no one looked at the video unless they needed to. Maybe a bored guard watched a dozen different screens,...

Video Surveillance by Computer
2019-06-14 11:28

The ACLU's Jay Stanley has just published a fantastic report: "The Dawn of Robot Surveillance" (blog post here) Basically, it lays out a future of ubiquitous video cameras watched by increasingly...

Surveillance-Savvy Hong Kong Protesters Go Digitally Dark
2019-06-13 16:09

Hong Kong's tech-savvy protesters are going digitally dark as they try to avoid surveillance and potential future prosecutions, disabling location tracking on their phones, buying train tickets...

Will self-driving cars represent a new mode for surveillance?
2019-06-12 05:00

Picture the future, where driving is a thing of the past. You can hop in your car or one from a ride-share, buckle up and tell the car where you want to go. During your ride, you can check your...