UK police arrest four people, a 20-year-old woman and three men aged 17 to 19, in connection to the M&S and Co-op hacks that began in mid-April and caused havoc
Dunno, not making a particular point, other than that I've been around for ages. Don't cause havoc kids, at least not in these kinds of ways. [embedded post] Eric Geller / @ericjgeller.com : British...
GM, Honda, Kia, Hyundai, and others added optional features in their apps to rate people's driving in recent years, offering the data to brokers like LexisNexis
LexisNexis, which generates consumer risk profiles for the insurers, knew about every trip G.M. drivers had taken in their cars … Mastodon: @dangillmor@mastodon.social . X: @evan_greer , @ccanonne_ , ...
Investigation: UK biomedical research database Biobank shared the sensitive health data of ~500K volunteers with insurance companies despite pledging not to
Investigation: Biobank, the UK's biomedical research database, shared sensitive health data of ~500K volunteers with insurance companies despite pledging not to
Observer investigation reveals UK Biobank opened its biomedical database to insurance firms despite pledge it would not do so Mastodon: @StevenFrench@writing.exchange and @JackTheCat@mastodon.scot X: ...
US investigators traced ransomware payments back to companies in Moscow skyscraper Federation Tower East, suggesting Russia tolerates ransomware operators
Cybersecurity experts tracing money paid by American businesses to Russian ransomware gangs found it led to one of Moscow's most prestigious addresses. Tweets: @hatr , @adam_k_levin , @ericgarland , @...
A task force of 60+ experts from industry, government, nonprofits, and academia calls on the US and allies to take steps to fight a surge in ransomware attacks
the Secret Weapon to Combatting Ransomware Danny Palmer / ZDNet : Ransomware is now a national security risk. This group thinks it knows how to defeat it Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE : Expert task for...
Interviews and documents show that One Concern, which wants to use AI to help emergency responders in disasters, dangerously exaggerated its tools' abilities
Sheri Fink / New York Times : Tweets: @random_walker , @nytimes , @jimmyjwu , @robreich , @jswatz , @kellyhereid , @kellyhereid , and @kellyhereid Tweets: Arvind Narayanan / @random_walker : The fake...
A look at Life360, a location-sharing app aimed at families, and conversations with teens who installed the app and their concerns about privacy and autonomy
@lmatsakis in @Wired https://www.wired.com/... Ted / @tedonprivacy : 1. This is child abuse 2. If you feel the need to do this to your *16 year old*, you seriously failed at parenting https://twitter....
By not giving consumers control over performance and maintenance data collected by their cars, manufacturers can limit where cars are repaired and serviced
Vehicles collect a lot of unusual data. But who owns it? — Mr. Hanvey is president and chief executive officer of the Auto Care Association. Tweets: @privacyproject , @nytimes , and @jathansadowski...
Inside the illicit world of “iCloud unlocking”, where cybercriminals trick iPhone owners or Apple staff into removing an iCloud account to resell the iPhone
In a novel melding of physical and cybercrime, hackers, thieves, and even independent repair companies are finding ways to “unlock iCloud” from iPhones. Tweets: @josephfcox , @jason_koebler , @jason_k...