Whistleblowers and electronic activists were shocked at the violation of privacy online for a long time. Now a host of technology entrepreneurs aim to turn an increasing awareness of the…
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American Civil Liberties Union Sues FBI, DEA, and Justice Department Over Facial Recognition Secrecy
The ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) sued the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and Justice Department for records detailing their use of facial-recognition software. The ACLU lawsuit states that the…
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A Texas man found guilty of hacking and abusing the LASC network for sending phishing emails was sentenced to a federal prison this week. The man, Oriyomi Sadiq Aloba, 33,…
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Hostinger web hosting provider resets all customer passwords during the weekend, after learning that an attacker has unauthorized access to one of their internal systems. Hostinger, which was founded in…
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Micro-blogging site Twitter has disclosed that some of their advert partners are abusing a bug in their system that allowed the latter to extract user information without the consent of…
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Capital One is the latest victim of a large-scale breach, which happened from 2005 and 2019. The 14-year worth data collection may be considered as the data breach with the…
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The probability that Lenovo has earned the infamous record for becoming a subject of the world’s biggest data breach in history is shaping-up fast. The culprit? The still online legacy…
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U.S. telecom giant, Sprint has recently revealed that a certain number of Sprint customer accounts were taken over by unauthorized users using a loophole in Samsung.com’s “add a line” feature….
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British Airways is now in hot water, as they are facing a £183-million fine in order to compensate the 2018 data breach it experienced. The airline company expressed its dissatisfaction…
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There were many data breach 2016. It seemed like there was a new one in the news every other week during that year. From a cybersecurity perspective, it was one…
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