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The website for ODIN Intelligence, a company that provides technology and tools for law enforcement and police departments, was defaced on Sunday.
The apparent hack comes days after Wired reported that an app developed by the company, SweepWizard, which allows police to manage and coordinate multi-agency raids, had a...
Arrested, seized, doxed and detained. These are just some of the ways police and prosecutors around the world took down the biggest cyber-crime operations of the year, even if it meant resorting to new and unconventional eyebrow-raising methods. From stashing billions of bitcoin under the floorboards to teenage...
A year after it was banned by the Federal Trade Commission, a notorious phone surveillance company is back in all but name, a TechCrunch investigation has found.
A groundbreaking FTC order in 2021 banned the stalkerware app SpyFone, its parent company Support King, and its chief executive Scott Zuckerman...
Apple’s long-awaited iOS 16 update for iPhones lands Monday with new security and privacy features, aimed at preventing spyware, protecting users against domestic and spousal abuse and replacing passwords that let hackers break into your online accounts.
Here’s a rundown of what to expect to see after you install.
Lockdown Mode
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A massive Chinese database storing millions of faces and vehicle license plates was left exposed on the internet for months before it quietly disappeared in August.
While its contents might seem unremarkable for China, where facial recognition is routine and state surveillance is ubiquitous, the sheer size of the...
Ax Sharma is a security researcher and reporter. His areas of interest include open source software security, malware analysis, data breaches, and scam investigations.
If combating attacks and hijackings of legitimate software on open source registries like npm weren’t challenging enough, app makers are increasingly experiencing the consequences of...
Security vulnerabilities in a popular Chinese-built GPS vehicle tracker can be easily exploited to track and remotely cut the engines of at least a million vehicles around the world, according to new research. Worse, the company that makes the GPS trackers has made no effort to fix them.
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Apple said Wednesday it will bring a new “Lockdown Mode” to its upcoming iPhone and Mac software that will switch off certain features aimed at helping targeted individuals combat government-grade spyware.
The technology giant said the new feature is an “extreme optional protection” for device owners who are more...
A new security feature in Apple’s upcoming macOS 13 Ventura will automatically block new USB-C devices from communicating with the operating system until the accessory can be approved by the user.
Apple dropped details of the new security feature in its release notes, which appears to be aimed at...
For 10 months in 2018, Ovalbek Turdakun was a prisoner in one of China’s notorious detention camps, where he was tortured, subject to horrific conditions, and under constant surveillance.
In a makeshift courtroom inside the detention camp he was being held, Turdakun was not permitted to speak and was...
