Security News

MI5 slapped on the wrist for 'serious' surveillance data breach
2019-05-15 11:38

Auditors poked around for a week after too many Peeping Toms had a trawl Home Secretary Sajid Javid has confessed to Parliament that MI5 bungled the security of "certain technology environments...

Reverse Engineering a Chinese Surveillance App
2019-05-13 11:37

Human Rights Watch has reverse engineered an app used by the Chinese police to conduct mass surveillance on Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang. The details are fascinating, and chilling. Boing Boing post....

Xinjiang Surveillance App Targets Legal, Everyday Behaviour: Rights Group
2019-05-02 12:24

Chinese authorities are using a mobile app designed for mass surveillance to profile, investigate and detain Muslims in Xinjiang by labelling "completely lawful" behaviour as suspicious, a Human...

NSA asks to end mass phone surveillance
2019-04-26 10:47

The NSA has asked the White House to end its mass phone surveillance program because the work involved outweighs its intelligence value.

Fooling Automated Surveillance Cameras with Patchwork Color Printout
2019-04-25 11:31

Nice bit of adversarial machine learning. The image from this news article is most of what you need to know, but here's the research paper....

Defense against the Darknet, or how to accessorize to defeat video surveillance
2019-04-19 21:16

Boffins from Belgium break people recognition software with a colorful placard A trio of Belgium-based boffins have created a ward that renders wearers unrecognizable to software trained to detect people.…

The surveillance economy has set its sights on smartphone sensors
2019-04-12 06:00

The most successful companies of our time are those who’ve mastered user data – collecting it, analyzing it and profiting from it – typically at the expense of user privacy. The Internet of things...

'Exodus' Surveillance Malware Found Targeting Apple iOS Users
2019-04-09 07:33

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an iOS version of the powerful mobile phone surveillance app that was initially targeting Android devices through apps on the official Google Play Store....

On Surveillance in the Workplace
2019-03-12 11:38

Data & Society just published a report entitled "Workplace Monitoring & Surveillance": This explainer highlights four broad trends in employee monitoring and surveillance technologies: Prediction...

Appeals Court to Hear Case of Reporter Alleging Surveillance
2019-01-28 21:47

When Sharyl Attkisson first began hearing clicking sounds on her phone and her computers started turning on and off in the middle of the night, she thought it was a technical glitch that could be...