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President Biden Signs Executive Order Encouraging Greater Regulation of Tech and Communications Companies
On July 9, 2021, President Biden issued a far-reaching Executive Order seeking to fight market concentration and anticompetitive practices across the entire U.S. economy
Inside the Industry That Unmasks People at Scale
Unique IDs linked to phones are supposed to be anonymous. But there’s an entire industry that links them to real people and their address.
This tool tells you if NSO’s Pegasus spyware targeted your phone
The toolkit scans iPhone and Android backup files for evidence of a compromise.
Calls to end social media anonymity give platforms more power without actually fixing the problem
The online abuse the England football team received after the Euro 2020 final has pushed people towards drastic measures to stop it happening again: giving social media companies their legal identification.
In Viktor Orban’s Hungary, spyware was used to monitor journalists
The deployment of the tool, confirmed with forensics, shows a willingness to use tactics previously deemed out-of-bounds.
94% of organizations have suffered insider data breaches
Human error is the top cause of serious breaches but malicious attacks are IT leaders’ biggest concern.
Spyware leak suggests lawyers and activists at risk across globe
Leaked records show dissidents and those who help them prominent among those under threat from NSO spyware.
Thinking about selling your Echo Dot—or any IoT device? Read this first
Deleting data from Echo Dots—and other IoT devices from Amazon and elsewhere—is hard.
We need a new strategy to tackle ‘exponential’ growth of ransomware, says Interpol
The International Criminal Police Organization, Interpol, has called for collaboration between police and industry to prevent a “potential ransomware pandemic”.
Android and iPhone spyware linked to assaults and murder
Android and iPhone spyware sold by NSO Group enables state terror attacks in multiple countries.
Faces Are the Next Target for Fraudsters
Hackers are pioneering new ways of tricking facial-recognition systems, from cutting the eyes out of photos to making a portrait ‘nod’ with AI.