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A hacker has breached the Argentinian government's IT network and stolen ID card details for the country's entire population, data that is now being sold in private circles.
Surveillance as a security threat
Early last October my phone rang. On the line was a researcher calling from Today, the BBC’s agenda-setting morning radio programme. She told me that something strange had happened, and she hoped I…
The moves comes after the founder of Signal discussed the security issues in their own blog post.
The local school system failed to properly redact personal information from a document requested through the Virginia Freedom of Information Act, inadvertently releasing to a parent last week the names of all Chesterfield County Public Schools students and employees who have reported testing positive for COVID-19. Chesterfield resident Grace Olsen, the mother of a CCPS student, had asked for the […]
MACHINES CANNOT GAUGE ACCESSIBILITY. AI DOES NOT FIX THIS.
Nearly a month after advising patrons that a system-wide ransomware attack had hit Contra Costa County’s libraries, officials had restored the vast majority of online services and those available at the 26 branches. On Jan. 3, administrators alerted patrons via email of the network outage and took the affected servers offline. The Sheriff’s Department and the District Attorney’s Office [...]
"something went wrong"
Recent VPN data leaks and breaches highlight the importance—and difficulty—of fully trusting a VPN provider. Here are tips on who to trust.