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Chicken Carcass Firearms And Fentanyl Skittles: The Weirdest US Airport Security Finds Of 2022

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Every year US authorities release a list of the weird and wacky things seized at airports. Read more

He Called Himself The King Of Fraud. Now This Bot Lord Will Reign In Prison For Years

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Thousands of servers, hundreds of thousands of IP addresses used by scammer to drum up $7m in fake web advert impressio... Read more

Non-profit's IT Manager Accused Of Embezzling $400k By Buying Gear, Services From His Own Fake Companies

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Boss used org's credit card to buy stuff from Amazon, Square accounts he set up, say prosecutors An IT manager in the U... Read more

It's 'near-impossible To Escape Persistent Surveillance' By American ISPs, Says FTC

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Watchdog finds dubious data gathering, illusory solicitations for consent The US Federal Trade Commission on Thursday s... Read more

Android OS Vendor Variants Transmit Data With No Opt-out

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Study finds privacy gaps in Android implementations from Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, Realme, and LineageOS Updated  Googl... Read more

Boffins Unveil SSD-Insider++, Promise Ransomware Detection And Recovery Right In Your Storage

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Firmware-based system recovers encrypted data in seconds, but manufacturers are proving reluctant A team of researchers... Read more

BrakTooth Vulnerabilities Put Bluetooth Users At Risk – And Some Devices Are Going Unpatched

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Qualcomm, Texas Instruments alleged to be leaving Bluetooth chips open to attack White-hat hackers have disclosed a bun... Read more

Apple Wants To Scan ICloud To Protect Kids, Can't Even Keep Them Safe In Its Own App Store – Report

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Tech Transparency Project accuses iGiant of lip service to child safety Apple, having recently invoked the "think of th... Read more

Bumble Fumble: Dude Divines Definitive Location Of Dating App Users Despite Disguised Distances

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And it's a sequel to the Tinder stalking flaw Up until this year, dating app Bumble inadvertently provided a way to fin... Read more

WhatsApp Pulls Plug On Taliban Helpline, Shuts Down Official-looking Accounts

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Terrorists' complaint service a bridge too far for encrypted chat biz For months, Facebook's WhatsApp paid no attention... Read more

Euro Watchdog Will Try To Extract $900m From Amazon For Breaking Data Privacy Laws

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You miss every shot you don't take, we guess Amazon says a European Union privacy watchdog has mustered the temerity to... Read more

Amazon Says It's All Social Media's Fault For Letting Fake Review Schemes Thrive

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Won't someone else save us from our policies and our decision to forego editorial control? Amazon, which for years has ... Read more

Now That Trump Is Useless To Zuckerberg, Ex-president Is Exiled From Facebook For Two Years, Possibly Indefinitely

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Donald, you're fired. Again Facebook on Friday announced that former US President Donald Trump will be banned from its ... Read more

Security Is An Architectural Issue: Why The Principles Of Zero Trust And Least Privilege Matter So Much Right Now

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We need to solve underlying problems, not increase complexity with point fixes Systems Approach  I’ve been intereste... Read more

LibreBMC Project To Open Source Baseboard Management Controllers With Security As A Priority

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Freely available from the hardware schematics to OpenPOWER cores on an FPGA, to the firmware on top The OpenPOWER Found... Read more

Signal Banned For Booking Obviously Targeted Ads? That Story's Too Good To Be True, Facebook Claims

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Antisocial giant dismisses chat app rival's 'stunt' in escalating war of words Encrypted messaging service Signal on Tu... Read more

Appeals Court Nixes Online Blueprint Sharing Ban On 3D-printed 'ghost Guns'

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Biden administration rules expected in the next week or so A federal appeals court in America has overturned a district... Read more

OK So What's Going With These Millions Of Pentagon-owned IPv4 Addresses Lighting Up All Of A Sudden?

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Network advertisement of military addresses by obscure corporation not so exciting after all The unexplained awakening ... Read more

Absolutely Fab: As TSMC Invests $100bn To Address Chip Shortage, Where Does That Leave The Rest Of The Industry?

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Semiconductor sovereignty, meet supply chain security Analysis  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., also known as ... Read more

Wi-Fi Devices Set To Become Object Sensors By 2024 Under Planned 802.11bf Standard

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Security and privacy still left to fix, preferably before launch In three years or so, the Wi-Fi specification is sched... Read more