The New #Surveillance State Is You
WIRED
The New Surveillance State Is You
Privacy may be dead, but civilians are turning conventional wisdom on its head by surveilling the cops as much as the cops surveil them.
 #privacy #politics
#Texas father rescues kidnapped 15-year-old daughter after tracking her phone’s location
the Guardian
Texas father rescues kidnapped 15-year-old daughter after tracking her phone’s location
Authorities say they arrested a man, 23, for kidnapping teen in a Houston suburb as she walked her dog on Christmas
 #privacy #Houston #news
Exploited #MongoBleed flaw leaks #MongoDB secrets, 87K servers exposed
BleepingComputer
Exploited MongoBleed flaw leaks MongoDB secrets, 87K servers exposed
A severe vulnerability affecting multiple MongoDB versions, dubbed MongoBleed (CVE-2025-14847), is being actively exploited in the wild, with over ...
 #cybersecurity #privacy #DataBreach
Hacker claims to leak #WIRED database with 2.3 million records
BleepingComputer
Hacker claims to leak WIRED database with 2.3 million records
A hacker claims to have breached Condé Nast and leaked an alleged WIRED database containing more than 2.3 million subscriber records, while ...
 #privacy #cybersecurity #DataBreach #journalism
#AshleyMacIsaac concert cancelled after #AI wrongly accuses him of being sex offender https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/ashley-macisaac-ai-accusation-9.7026786 #privacy #nsfw
Single voice command exposes humanoid robots to hijacking and cascading attacks
Interesting Engineering
China demo shows one whispered command could let hackers seize robots
Chinese security tests show robots hacked in minutes via voice or wireless flaws, spreading attacks to other machines and raising safety fears.
 #cybersecurity #robotics #DARKNAVY
Meet the team that investigates when journalists and activists get hacked with government #spyware
TechCrunch
Meet the team that hunts government spyware
For years, Access Now’s Digital Security Helpline has been aiding journalists and dissidents who have been targeted with government spyware. This...
 #cybersecurity #activism #journalism #AccessNow #Intellexa #Paragon #NSOGroup #Pegasus #Predator #Apple
Free Software Foundation Receives 'Historic' Donations Worth Nearly $900K - in #Monero
Free Software Foundation Receives
On Wednesday (Christmas Eve), the Free Software Foundation announced it had received two major contributions totaling around $900,000 USD — i...
 #privacy #crypto #FSF #FOSS #FLOSS
German minister sees 'merit' to #SocialMediaBan for teens
dw.com
German minister sees 'merit' to social media ban for teens
Looking into age restrictions on social media is "more than justified," Germany's Digital Minister Karsten Wildberger told the dpa news agency, com...
 #SocialMedia #Germany #privacy #AgeVerification #IdentityVerification #AgeAssurance #politics #cybersecurity
Fake #Grubhub emails promise tenfold return on sent #cryptocurrency
BleepingComputer
Fake Grubhub emails promise tenfold return on sent cryptocurrency
Grubhub users received fraudulent messages, apparently from a company email address, promising a tenfold bitcoin payout in return for a transfer to...
 #phishing #spoofing #cybersecurity #scam #crypto