Privacy Stories for 2016

Creepy Site Claims To Reveal Torrenting Histories 211
How Russia Recruited Elite Hackers For Its Cyberwar 236
Smart Electricity Meters Can Be Dangerously Insecure, Warns Expert 163
Firefox 52 Borrows One More Privacy Feature From the Tor Browser 81
FBI and Homeland Security Detail Russian Hacking Campaign In New Report 404
Snowden Doc Shows NSA Blamed Russia For Hack of Murdered Journalist 110
Singapore Will Add Iris Scans As Identifier For Citizens And Permanent Residents Starting January 1 57
Nevada Website Bug Leaks Thousands of Medical Marijuana Dispensary Applications 55
Ask Slashdot: Is Computing As Cool and Fun As It Once Was? 449
Destructive KillDisk Malware Turns Into Ransomware 56
North Korea's Android Tablet Takes a Screenshot Every Time You Open an App 85
Amazon Patents System To Defend Drones Against Hackers, Jammers and Arrows 122
Millions of Websites Vulnerable Due To Security Bug In Popular PHP Script 104
Police Request Amazon Echo Recordings For Homicide Investigation 168
Turkey Says It's Investigating 10,000 Social Network Users 83
Sony Music Apologises To Britney Spears, Fans After Fake RIP Tweet Sent 52
Uber Says App Doesn't Keep Track of Location; iOS Maps Extension to Blame 38
China 'Smart Restaurant' Uses Facial Recognition To Make Meal Suggestions 61
US Court Demands Documents On AT&T/Police Collaboration 48
U2F Security Keys May Be the World's Best Hope Against Account Takeovers 162
US Government Begins Asking Foreign Travelers About Social Media 121
FBI Probes FDIC Hack Linked To China's Military: Reuters 22
Leaked Files Reveal Scope of Cellebrite's Smartphone-Cracking Technology 37
Russians Used Malware On Android Devices To Track and Target Ukraine Artillery, Says Report 101
Congressional Report Claims Snowden In 'Contact With Russian Intelligence' 185
Yahoo Email Scan Shows US Spy Push To Recast Constitutional Privacy 65
White Hat Security Group Hacks Marvel Twitter Accounts 27
Government Requests For Facebook User Data Up 27 Percent in First Half of 2016 19
Google Employee Sues For $3.8 Billion Over Confidentiality Policies 102
EU's Highest Court Delivers Blow To UK Snooper's Charter 156
Barnes & Noble's Latest Tablet Is Running Spyware From Shanghai 63
US Fails To Renegotiate Arms Control Rule For Hacking Tools 31
Twitter Will Hand Over Data On the User Who Sent a Seizure-Inducing Tweet To a Journalist 492
South Carolina Bill Wants To Put Porn Blocks On New Computers 351
House Committee Urges Congress To Pass Stingray Surveillance Legislation 25
LinkedIn Warns 9.5 Million Lynda Users About Database Breach 35
EFF Begins Investigating Surveillance Technology Rumors At Standing Rock 147
Massive Mirai Botnet Hides Its Control Servers On Tor 149
Election Assistance Commission Hacked Using SQL Injection 103
Yahoo's Billion-User Database Reportedly Sold On the Dark Web for Just $300,000 - NYT 71
Evernote Reverses Course On Opt-out Privacy Policy That Would've Exposed Users' Content To Employees 52
Twitter Blocks Government 'Spy Centers' From Accessing User Data 46
A $300 Device Can Steal Mac FileVault2 Passwords 88
White House Supports Claim Putin Directed US Election Hack 715
Newly Uncovered Site Suggests NSA Exploits For Direct Sale 33
Malvertising Campaign Infects Your Router Instead of Your Browser 137
Most Businesses Pay Ransomware Demands, IBM Finds 69
Yahoo Says Hackers Stole Information From Over 1 Billion Accounts 71
Starting Next Year, Evernote Employees Could Access Your Unencrypted Notes 98
A Typo Led To Podesta's Email Hack, Says Report 274
Florida Court Says Suspected Voyeur Must Reveal His iPhone Passcode To Police 184
Uber Defends Privacy Practices After Allegations It Spies On Riders 40
Why China Can't Lure Tech Talent 219
Quest Diagnostics Says Personal Health Information of 34,000 Customers Hacked 69
First Version of Sandboxed Tor Browser Available 28
Uber Employees Used the Platform To Stalk Celebrities and Their Exes, Says Former Employee 99
NSA's Best Are 'Leaving In Big Numbers,' Insiders Say 412
Does The 'Snoopers Charter' Also Enshrine Lying In Court? 123
Researchers Point Out 'Theoretical' Security Flaws In AMD's Upcoming Zen CPU 57
DHS Tried To Breach Our Firewall, Says Georgia's Secretary of State 146
Twitter Cuts API Access For Media Sonar, Spy Tool Used To Target Black Lives Matter 104
Watchdog Group Claims Smart Toys Are Spying On Kids 70
NSA, GCHQ Have Been Intercepting In-Flight Mobile Calls For Years 99
Nintendo Offers Up To $20,000 To Hack the 3DS 45
Backdoor Accounts Found in 80 Sony IP Security Camera Models 55
New Stegano Exploit Kit Hides Malvertising Code In Banner Pixels 207
Google Preparing 'Invisible ReCAPTCHA' System For No User Interaction 57
New Google Trusted Contacts Service Shares User Location In Real Time 89
Does Windows 10's Data Collection Trade Privacy For Microsoft's Security? 181
Virginia Police Spent $500K For An Ineffective Cellphone Surveillance System 36
For The UK's 'Snoopers' Charter', Politicians Voted Themselves An Exemption 134
iOS's 'Activation Lock' For Stolen iPads And iPhones Can Be Easily Bypassed 54
China's New 'Social Credit Score' Law Means Full Access To Customer Data 83
Encryption Backdoor Sneaks Into UK Law 137
Hackers Steal $31 Million at Russia's Central Bank 78
Facebook Knows What You're Streaming 100
Multiple Vulnerabilities In AirDroid Opens At Least 10 Million Android Users To MITM Attacks, Hijackings 30
Firefox Zero-Day Can Be Used To Unmask Tor Browser Users 55
Trump Appoints Third Net Neutrality Critic To FCC Advisory Team 191
Uber Wants To Track Your Location Even When You're Not Using the App, Here's Why 131
FBI To Gain Expanded Hacking Powers as Senate Effort To Block Fails 153
China Pilots a System That Rates Citizens on 'Social Credit Score' To Determine Eligibility For Jobs, Travel 204
Muni System Hacker Hit Others By Scanning For Year-Old Java Vulnerability 30
Holding Shift + F10 During Windows 10 Updates Opens Root CLI, Bypasses BitLocker 138
Jolla's Sailfish OS Now Certified as Russian Government's First 'Android Alternative' 98
The UK Is About to Legalize Mass Surveillance [Update] 394
Microsoft Confirms Its Chinese-Language Chatbot Filters Certain Topics 19
48 Organizations Now Have Access To Every Brit's Browsing Hstory 251
Julian Assange Could Be Time's 'Person Of The Year', And Is Also Still Not Dead 145
Delete Yourself From Many Internet Sites By Pressing This Button 46
Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn Had 'Forbidden' Internet Connection At the Pentagon, Says Report 314
Locky Ransomware Uses Decoy Image Files To Ambush Facebook, LinkedIn Accounts 36
Edward Snowden Loses Norway Safe Passage Case 73
Microsoft Shares Windows 10 Telemetry Data With Third Parties 175
Security Researchers Can Turn Headphones Into Microphones 122
Nearly 40% of Americans Would Give Up Sex For Better Online Security, Survey Finds 230
Telegram Launches Telegraph, An Anonymous Blogging Platform 30
Snowden Can Be Asked To Testify In Person In Germany NSA Probe 72
FBI Hacked Over 8,000 Computers In 120 Countries Based on One Warrant 90
Tech Firms Seek To Frustrate Internet History Log Law 85
WordPress Auto-Update Server Had Flaw Allowing Persistent Backdoors In Websites 33
Tor-Enabled Smartphone Is Antidote To Google 'Hostility' Over Android, Says Developer 39
Surveillance Firm 'Geofeedia' Cuts Half of Staff After Losing Access To Twitter, Facebook 31
Hacker Explains How He Hacked Into Tel Aviv's Public Wi-Fi Network In Three Days 45
'ClickClickClick' Site Reveals How Much Browsers Know About Your Online Behavior 74
President Obama Says He Can't Pardon Snowden 534
Ask Slashdot: Could A 'Smart Firewall' Protect IoT Devices? 230
Spammers Compromised Popular Twitter Accounts Including Viacom And Microsoft Xbox 23
Should Domain-Name Registrations Require A Verifiable Real Name? 241
Privacy Group Sues The FBI, Demanding Details About Biometric Database Sharing 16
IRS Demands Identities of All US Coinbase Traders Over Three Year Period 124
Antivirus Firm Kaspersky Launches Its Own Hackproof OS, Based On Microkernel 108
LinkedIn-Russia: US Says Concerned Over Decision to Block Professional Networking Site 95
Mozilla Launches Firefox Focus, a Stripped-Down Private Browser For iOS 35
LinkedIn Blocked By Russian Government 68
Facebook Stops Collecting WhatsApp User Data in Europe After Government Pressure 24
Britain Has Passed the 'Most Extreme Surveillance Law Ever Passed in a Democracy' 359
iPhones Secretly Send Call History To Apple, Security Firm Says 124
A $5 Tool Called PoisonTap Can Hack Your Locked Computer In One Minute 172
Office Depot Allegedly Diagnosing Computers With Nonexistent Viruses To Meet Sales Goals 161
US Internet Firms Ask Trump To Support Encryption, Ease Regulations 173
Shazam Keeps Your Mac's Microphone Always On, Even When You Turn It Off 126
Hack Exposes 412 Million Accounts on AdultFriendFinder Sites 78
Will Trump's Presidency Bring More Surveillance To The US? 412
WikiLeaks Calls for Pardons From President Obama -- Or President Trump 445
FBI Operated 23 Tor-Hidden Child Porn Sites, Deployed Malware From Them 176
Researchers Set To Work On Malware-Detecting CPUs 40
Russia To Block LinkedIn After Court Ruling on User Data 44
iOS WebView Bug Can Force iPhones To Make Calls While UI Freezes 22
Fake Fingerprint Stickers Let You Access a Protected Phone While Wearing Gloves 74
Telco CEO: Consumers Have 'Double Standards' Over Data Privacy 67
Researchers Hack Philips Hue Smart Bulbs Using a Drone 50
Web of Trust, Downloaded 140M Times, Pulled From Extension Stores After Revelations That It Sells Users' Data 115
Teachers 'Unwittingly' Spying On School Children With Surveillance Software 76
DRM is Used to Lock in, Control and Spy on Users, Says Free Software Foundation 72
Unsealed Court Docs Show FBI Used Malware Like 'A Grenade' 59
UK Privacy Watchdog Says Facebook Agrees To Suspend Using WhatsApp Users' Data 18
Fake Shopping Apps Are Invading the iPhone 41
China Adopts Controversial Cybersecurity Law; Experts Say It Will Hurt Businesses 61
Nvidia Adds Telemetry To Latest Drivers 243
Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way to Browse the Web Anonymously? 177
A Powerful New Android Spyware Targets Business Executives 18
New Software Remembers Everything Your Computer Has Ever Displayed 117
Aaron Swartz Remembered With Annual Hackathon In San Francisco 18
On Wall Street, a High-Ranking Few Still Avoid Email 168
UK Auto Insurer Will Use Facebook Data To Set Premium 95
Tim Berners-Lee Warns of Danger of Chaos in Unprotected Public Data 20
Google Security Engineer Claims Android Is Now As Secure As the iPhone 173
New, More-Powerful IoT Botnet Infects 3,500 Devices In 5 Days 56
Montreal Police Monitored iPhone of La Presse Journalist Patrick Lagace 56
Microsoft Says Russia-Linked Hackers Are Exploiting Newly Discovered Flaw In Windows OS 111
Firefox Disables Loophole that Allows Sites To Track Users Via Battery Status 104
Computer Scientists Believe a Trump Server Was Communicating With a Russian Bank 548
NSA Hackers The Shadow Brokers Dump More Files 50
EFF Suggests Halloween Costume To Protest Facial Recognition Databases 65
Serious Hacks Possible Through Inaudible Ultrasound 109
'Robocall Strike Force' Proposal Could Stop Caller ID Spoofing 97
Police Used Cell Tower Logs To Text 7,500 Possible Crime Witnesses 153
Apple Shared User Data With Governments, Says WikiLeaks Email 106
US Bank Regulator Notifies Congress of Major Data Security Breach 48
FBI Probes Newly Discovered Hillary Clinton Emails and Reopens Investigation 822
WhatsApp-Facebook Privacy U-Turn Now Being Probed by EU Data Watchdog 25
Red Cross Blood Service Admits To Personal Data Breach Affecting Half a Million Donors 32
Feds Charge 61 People In Indian-Based IRS Phone Scam Case 139
FCC Imposes ISP Privacy Rules and Takes Aim At Mandatory Arbitration 51
How Vigilante Hackers Could Stop the Internet of Things Botnet 64
Canadian Police Are Texting Potential Murder Witnesses 121
Dyn DNS DDoS Likely The Work of Script Kiddies, Says FlashPoint 85
The Phone Hackers At Cellebrite Have Had Their Firmware Leaked Online 29
Snapchat, Skype Put Users' 'Human Rights at Risk', Amnesty Int'l Reports 47
AT&T Is Spying on Americans For Profit, New Documents Reveal 161
Rowhammer Attack Can Now Root Android Devices 100
Alibaba Founder To Chinese Government: Use Big Data To Stop Criminals 46
Swedish Administrative Court Bans Drones With Cameras 113
A New Attack Allows Intercepting Or Blocking Of Every LTE Phone Call And Text 80
Feds Walk Into a Building, Demand Everyone's Fingerprints To Open Phones 432
Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban On Personally Identifiable Web Tracking 155
WikiLeaks To Its Supporters: 'Stop Taking Down the US Internet, You Proved Your Point' 338
Mirai and Bashlight Join Forces Against DNS Provider Dyn 56
Prosecutors Say NSA Contractor Could Flee To Foreign Power 44
43 Million Weebly and 22 Million Foursquare Accounts Stolen 15
How Hackers Broke Into John Podesta and Colin Powell's Gmail Accounts 116
Prosecutors Say Contractor Stole 50 Terabytes of NSA Data 90
Researchers Bypass ASLR Protection On Intel Haswell CPUs 72
Czechs Arrest Russian Hacker Wanted By FBI 55
Your Dynamic IP Address Is Now Protected Personal Data Under EU Law 38
Traditional Keyboard Sounds Can be Decoded By Listening Over a VoIP Connection, Researchers Say 57
DNA Testing For Jobs May Be On Its Way, Warns Gartner 228
CIA-Backed Surveillance Tool 'Geofeedia' Was Marketed To Public Schools 41
Half of American Adults Are In a Face-Recognition Database 64
Hackers Steal Credit Card Data From Visitors of US Senate GOP Committee Website 29
UK Police Begins Deployment of 22,000 Police Body Cameras 65
Journalists Face Jail Time After Reporting on North Dakota Pipeline Protest 357
UK Security Agencies Unlawfully Collected Data For 17 Years, Court Rules 56
Assange Internet Link Cut By State Actor, Claims Wikileaks 475
Google Reveals It Received Secret FBI Subpoena 61
Hackers Hit 6,000 Sites On Active 18-Month Carding Spree 39
Top Democrats Request FBI Investigation of Trump Campaign Ties To Russia Over Hacking 493
Android Trojan Asks Victims To Submit a Selfie Holding Their ID Card 25
DHS Warns of Mirai Botnet Threat To Cellular Modems 21
Android Devices That Contain Foxconn Firmware May Have a Secret Backdoor 95
4Chan Hackers Claim To Have Remotely Wiped John Podesta's iPhone and iPad 269
Yahoo Patents Smart Billboard That Would Deliver Targeted Ads To Passersby or Motorists 131
Senator Wants Nationwide, All-Mail Voting To Counter Election Hacks 454
US Military Is Looking At Blockchain Technology To Secure Nuclear Weapons 62
White House Vows 'Proportional' Response For Russian DNC Hack 396
How a Video Game About Sheep Exposes the FBI's Broken FOIA System 116
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter Block Tool For Cops To Surveil You On Social Media 80
WikiLeaks Publishes Cryptic UFO Emails Sent To Clinton Campaign From Former Blink 182 Singer 205
Yahoo Disables Automatic Email Forwarding Feature, Making It Difficult For Users To Leave 205
UK Is Banning Apple Watch From Cabinet Meetings Over Russian Hacking Fears 106
WikiLeaks Posts 2,000 More Emails From John Podesta 377
Physically-Secure 'ORWL' Computer Expands Its Open Source Policy 68
As Contradictions Mount, Experts Call For Declassification of Yahoo's Email-Scanning Order 50
UK's Chief Troll Hunter Targets Doxxing, Virtual Mobbing, and Nasty Images 100
Feds Convinced Police To Use License Plate-Scanning Tech At Gun Shows 277
CIA 'Siren Servers' Can Predict Social Uprisings Several Days Before They Happen 174
Baltimore Police Took 1 Million Surveillance Photos of City 74
FBI Looks Into Unlocking Minnesota Mall Stabber's iPhone 99
Facebook Wins 'Big Brother' Award in Belgium After Being Declared Worst Privacy Villain 37
US Intel Officially Blames the Russian Government For Hacking DNC 287
Verizon Wants $1 Billion Discount On Yahoo Deal After Reports of Hacking, Email Scanning 77
FCC Proposal: Internet Providers Must Ask To Share Your Data 83
New York To Test Facial Recognition Cameras At 'Crossing Points' 96
Yahoo Scan By US Fell Under Foreign Spy Law Expiring Next Year 50
53% of DDoS Attacks Result In Additional Compromise, Says Neustar 31
Judge Allows Small Businesses To Sue Credit Card Giants For Forcing Them To Adopt Chip Readers 311
NSA Contractor Arrested in Possible New Theft of Secrets 101
Yahoo Offers Non-Denial Denial of Bombshell Spy Report 103
BadKernel Vulnerability Affects One In 16 Android Smartphones 58
Apple, Google, Microsoft: We Have No Government Email Scanning Program Like Yahoo's 139
Encryption App Signal Wins Fight Against FBI Subpoena and Gag Order 88
Johnson & Johnson Discloses That Its Insulin Pump Is Hackable 79
Yahoo Secretly Scanned Customer Emails For US Intelligence 194
Police Complaints Drop 93 Percent After Deploying Body Cameras 332
Researchers Develop System To Send Passwords, Keys Through Users' Bodies 61
FBI Agreed To Destroy Laptops of Clinton Aides With Immunity Deal, Sources Say 500
Tim Cook Defends Apple's Approach To Security: 'Encryption is Inherently Great' 198
WikiLeaks' Big Tuesday Announcement Will Now Take Place Via Video 380
No One's Bidding on The Shadow Brokers' Stolen NSA Hacking Tools 51
Yahoo Insiders Believe Hackers Could Have Stolen Over 1 Billion Accounts 125
LastPass On Mobile Is Now Free 10
New US 'Secret' Clearance Unit Hires Firm Linked To 2014 Hacks 23
Newsweek Website Attacked After Report On Trump, Cuban Embargo 342
Researchers Ask Federal Court To Unseal Years of Surveillance Records 24
AT&T To End Targeted Ads Program, Give All Users Lowest Available Price 44
Oscar Winners, Sports Stars and Bill Gates Are Building Lavish Bunkers 332
The Psychological Reasons Behind Risky Password Practices 210
The Yahoo Hackers Weren't State-Sponsored, Security Firm Says 34
WhatsApp Won't Comply With India's Order To Delete User Data 79

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