Meet the research team using AI to help catch suspects in mass shootings
Data in the public domain like tweets and social media video is increasingly relied on to make sense of the immediate aftermath of tragedies like...
Air Force X-37B space plane at 500 days in orbit.
The latest secretive mission of the United States Air Force's X-37B space plane has cruised beyond 500 days in Earth orbit since its launch last...
Audio: How a Jailbird Con Artist Uncovered a Secret FBI Surveillance Tool
A disgraced lawyer, sitting in jail, obsessed with a kooky theory that the government tracked him by sending secret rays into his house... ends up...
Disable Google’s Location History settings
I'll admit I'm pretty good about protecting my privacy as well as I'm a large fan of Google. This one however slipped under my radar...
Listening in on WiFi
Frank Swain can hear Wi-Fi, and he's been tuning in to London's networks for the past week. (more…)
Legal Ruling Suspects Fingerprint may be used to UNLOCK his mobile device.
A Virginia Circuit Court judge has ruled that the Fifth Amendment does not protect one's fingerprint to unlock a device. However it does protect passcodes....
Shellshock botnet targets Akamai, as well as US DoD networks.
Attackers were quick to capitalized on the Shellshock Bash command interpreter bug disclosed yesterday. Constructing a botnet that is rapidly try to infect other servers, according to...
UK spies ‘intercepted webcam images of Yahoo users’
British spy agency GCHQ intercepted webcam images from millions of Yahoo users around the world, according to a report in the Guardian. (more…)
NSA spying through Angry Birds, Google Maps
The NSA and its British counterpart are tapping popular smartphone apps such as Angry Birds to peek into the tremendous amounts of very personal data...
Turn Off Your Smartphone Camera’s GPS to Protect Your Privacy
If you don’t like to broadcast your whereabouts and privacy is something you care about, you’ve likely got it under control: No Foursquare for you,...