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IPCO report also lets us recognise Britain's Creepiest Council 2017

Police employees who make typos in warrants to use Snooper’s Charter spy powers are still getting innocent people arrested, the Investigatory Powers Commissioner’s delayed annual report has revealed.…

Logins, IP address, personal data and the kitchen sink at risk

Home improvement website Houzz has urged users to reset their passwords after an "unauthorised third party" made off with a file containing customer data.…

Gizmo deafens eavesdroppers, and you can build one yourself

Project Alias is a homebrew gizmo that aims to deafen Alexa and Google Home until a user is good and ready for the creepy little cylinders to pay attention.…

You have been warned... Tech giants abuse dev program, iPhone maker eventually undoes ban

Analysis  After briefly punishing Facebook and Google for violating the rules of its enterprise developer program, Apple has relented. Cupertino is in the process of restoring the digital certificates used by Facebook and Google to sign and distribute in-house iOS apps internally to employees, after revoking them within the past 24 hours.…

Facebook is continuing to crack down on misinformation, political meddling, and "coordinated inauthentic behavior" on its platform.

A new module allows it to be rented to other malicious actors -- and it's likely other new capabilities are coming down the pike.

Swarm technology may be a game changer for the bad guys if organizations don’t change their tactics.

So far, 2019 shows no signs of a decline in data incidents.

A cyberattack lifts employee data at the French aerospace giant as news hits of "Collections 2-5" being passed around the underground.

The Department of Justice is looking to dismantle the Joanap botnet, which has been built and controlled by North Korea-linked hackers since 2009.

Techies exhausted, customers deflated, management tyred... you can't get better

Car servicing chain Kwik-Fit has suffered a malware attack that has caused delays in customers' car repairs.…

Complainant seeks damages for 'lost ability to earn a living'

A Texas lawyer is suing Apple over its FaceTime eavesdropping bug, claiming it allowed someone to overhear a meeting with a client.…

A day after Facebook was dinged for shady iOS distribution techniques of its data-collecting research app, Google was discovered using the same methods for its own app.

A newly discovered malware steals cookies, credentials and more to break into victims' cryptocurrency exchange accounts.

Advanced composites, Eurofighter... lots of goodies ripe for espionage

Comment  Airbus has admitted that a "cyber incident" resulted in unidentified people getting their hands on "professional contact and IT identification details" of some Europe-based employees.…