Edward Snowden designs phone case to show when data is being monitored

Snowden and co-designer Andrew ‘Bunnie’ Huang’s ‘introspection engine’ knows when a cellular, Wi-Fi or Bluetooth connection is being used to share data American whistleblower Edward Snowden delivers a speech during the Roskilde Festival in Denmark last month. Edward...

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Police recreate murder victim’s finger so they can unlock his iPhone

It could be the crucial clue to solving a murder mystery. A lab in Michigan has managed to recreate a dead man’s finger A dead man’s finger has been 3D printed at a Michigan lab in order to unlock their iPhone. Police hope that the technology will help...

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KickAssTorrents down: US authorities seize domain name in move that could kill world’s biggest torrent site

The suspected founder of the site has been arrested and it could never go back online Protesters demonstrate in Stockholm over the conviction of four men involved with The Pirate Bay filesharing site The world’s biggest torrent site has been taken offline...

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Investigatory Powers Bill: Theresa May-led legislation could be killed by ruling from European Court, privacy campaigners claim

The case was originally brought by a member of Ms May's own cabinet During her speech at the 2011 Conservative Party conference, Theresa May announced plans to clamp down on illegal immigrants hiding behind the human rights act A European Court of Justice...

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Google My Activity shows everything that company knows about its users – and there’s a lot

The new site collects every website you’ve been on, everything you’ve searched and many of the things you’ve done with your phone There's a lot to see Google has launched a new site that shows absolutely everything it knows about its users. And there’s an...

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Theresa May could launch huge attack on privacy and internet surveillance protections as prime minister, campaigners warn

The new Prime Minister was labelled the villain of the year by the internet industry, and has come to stand for many of the most invasive parts of the modern surveillance state Britain's Home Secretary Theresa May passes a police officer as she arrives in...

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Are YOU on the FBI's SECRET facial scanning database?

AN ALARMING number of citizens are included in the most advanced facial recognition service run by the US' top law enforcement agency, a new report has claimed. Facial scanning is more widespread than thought as law enforcement agencies step up their activity New...

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Hackers are using this nasty text message trick to break into people's accounts

The attacker can sometimes even spoof their identity - so the text looks like it comes from Google, or Facebook he hacker enters the victim's password, followed by an ill-gotten 2FA code, and they're in Two-factor authentication is a godsend for securing...

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Details of 33 million Twitter accounts hacked and posted online

Twitter security officials said they are 'confident the information was not obtained from a hack of Twitter’s servers' Security experts said the most common password affected by the breach was '123456' Twitter has been forced to lock around 33 million accounts...

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Why is everyone covering up their laptop cameras?

Stickers and slides serve to ease concerns that spooks could be watching our every move, as even the FBI director says he puts tape on his camera The crowdfunded product Eyebloc failed to reach its $5,000 funding target despite appealing to a legitimate concern...

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Google's upcoming Allo messaging app is 'dangerous', Edward Snowden claims

Snowden said Google's decision to disable end-to-end encryption by default makes it 'unsafe' The new chat app will be released this summer Using Google’s upcoming messaging app is “dangerous”, according to Edward Snowden. In a tweet, the whistleblower...

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Charging your mobile phone by plugging it into a computer could be enough to get you HACKED

If you thought plugging your phone into a computer to charge it up was fairly safe, you thought wrong When your phone starts complaining that its battery is running low, you probably wouldn't think twice about plugging it into a computer to charge it up. But...

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US nuclear weapons are still controlled by floppy disks, report finds

The US Government Accountability Office found that the defense department was still using 1970s-era computer systems The Pentagon plans to update its computer systems by the end of 2017 The Pentagon coordinates the US' nuclear weapons – using a floppy disk,...

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Jennifer Lawrence photo hacker Ryan Collins pleads guilty

A man has pleaded guilty to the hacking of emails and online accounts belonging to Hollywood stars and stealing private assets, including nude photos and video clips. Ryan Collins used a ‘phishing’ scam to gain access to celebrity accounts Ryan Collins,...

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Uber has the ability to access one surprising piece of information from your mobile phone

Taxi app admits to having capability to pull data straight from the smartphone of many of its customers The taxi app Uber has admitted to having the ability to detect the battery level on its users' phones. However, it denied using this information to charge...

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60 per cent of Androids exposed by new attack on mediaserver

Yet again, the fix would be proper vetting of code in Google Play and other app stores Duo Security researcher Kyle Lady says attackers can compromise more than half of enterprise Android phones by chaining two operating system and chip vulnerabilities. The...

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Your money or your files: the growing threat of ransomware

Ransomware – whereby phishers lock data-access and blackmail the owners into paying for the key – is the new internet plague coming from the US. But since the criminals’ transactions are untraceable, what is the remedy? Seung Lee reports Some cyber-security...

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Face recognition app taking Russia by storm may bring end to public anonymity

FindFace compares photos to profile pictures on social network Vkontakte and works out identities with 70% reliability Findface has amassed 500,000 users in the short time since the launch If the founders of a new face recognition app get their way, anonymity...

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GCHQ says you should change your passwords LESS often, as one in three Brits admits to snooping on their partner's social media

Forcing people to change their passwords regularly is ineffectual, according to the UK spy agency In a piece of advice that seemingly contradicts everything else we've ever heard, GCHQ has recommended you should change your password LESS often. According...

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Fraudsters bribing insurance company staff for YOUR information

Fraudsters are bribing insurance company staff for information about their customers, the City of London Police has found. Some scammers follow staff into pubs, cafes and car parks to corner them and coerce them into divulging data. Stolen information is used...

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