It's not clear exactly for what purpose the recording device was used, but FBI director Kash Patel said the scheme was to "capture sensitive communications about the company’s super intelligence technology."
A federal lawsuit claims that Dmitry Belkin and his companies routinely failed to deliver on services to protect customers, generated fake evidence and denied refunds to victims. The post FTC says ‘sextortion’ protection companies deceived customers about services appeared first on CyberScoop.
In an extremely disappointing ruling, a California trial court dismissed SIREN v. San Jose, our case challenging the city of San Jose’s warrantless searches of its vast stores of automated license plate reader (ALPR) data. EFF and the ACLU of Northern California represent SIREN and CAIR California, two non-profits that serve San Jose residents, in this case. Make no mistake: We believe this ruling is wrong on the law…
When we communicate online today – from your personal emails and DMs to secure international commerce – we usually do so with encryption. Encryption converts readable data into unreadable gibberish to protect our privacy and security. This didn’t just happen organically. Three decades ago, the U.S government treated encryption like a weapon, and it took some unlikely heroes to set it free: a grad student, a junior la…
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to view video information without authentication. The following versions of Swann Communications SWIFI-SE2KIC are affected: SWIFI-SE2KIC firmware <=2.0.22 (CVE-2026-107605, CVE-2026-107606, CVE-2026-107607) CVSS Vendor Equipment v3 6.2 Swann Communications SWIFI-SE2KIC firmware 1 Vulnerability Missing Authentication for Critica…
Mozilla’s Firefox Enterprise is a paid platform that lets organizations control how sensitive data is shared, check device security, and manage employee access to web applications. The platform pairs the browser with a management dashboard hosted on an organization’s own infrastructure. IT teams can set policies across their workforce, restrict AI tools, and connect browser activity to existing security monitoring sy…
Expanded plugin count allows the malware to monitor users’ location, stream live audio, and interact with authenticated browser sessions. The post XWorm RAT Evolves Into Surveillance Platform appeared first on SecurityWeek.
AI has brought us to a familiar inflection point in the story of privacy, cybersecurity, and online safety. We have an opportunity to apply decades of cybersecurity experience before the next generation of technology creates consequences we cannot easily reverse. I learned the importance of that responsibility through a three-year-old child I’ll call Adia. Her name is a protective pseudonym. Adia appeared in an image…
Flock joined the CVE Program as a CNA, giving the company authority to assign IDs to vulnerabilities in its own surveillance cameras and license plate readers. The post Flock can now issue CVEs for its own products. Should we trust it? appeared first on CyberScoop.
Norway’s data protection regulator has fined Microsoft-owned advertising company Xandr NOK 92 million, approximately €8.6 million, for unlawfully processing and sharing Grindr users’ personal data, including information revealing their sexual orientation. The penalty is the largest issued by the Norwegian Data Protection Authority to date and concerns violations between July 2018 and April 2020, before … The post Mic…
The personal AI agents rollout is going about as smoothly as expected: Amazon now blocks Meta's Muse because it doesn't identify itself as a bot while browsing; Instinct keeps raising privacy concerns; and the horror stories from pretty much every personal AI agent keep piling up. Regardless, the tech world is mesmerized by the capabilities and potential of these services. Less than a year
Investigators also sought permission to use an invasive surveillance tool called a cell-site simulators against journalist Georgia Fort and a Minnesota state Senate candidate.
In the past two years, the federal government has unlawfully consolidated data exposing our private information. This consolidation has been chaotic but generally came in three rolling waves: It started with DOGE, moved to agency-to-agency data sharing with ICE, and then attempted data-driven purges of state voter rolls. We all deserve to live in a world where the data we use to pay our taxes, receive benefits, and v…