Cover Your Tracks
When you visit a website, your browser makes a "request" for that site. In the background, advertising code and invisible trackers on that site might also cause your browser to…
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Researchers demonstrate new browser-based side-channel attack that affects Intel and M1 Macs
A group of researchers has uncovered what looks to be the first browser-based side-channel attack that's built entirely from CSS and HTML. The JavaScript-free attack has been found to work…
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A hacker who exposed Verkada’s surveillance camera snafu has been raided
Tillie Kottmann, a 21-year-old hacker, has been raided by Swiss authorities and their devices seized, Bloomberg reports — days after helping to reveal how Silicon Valley security startup Verkada’s own…
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Firefox 85 Cracks Down on Supercookies
In short, supercookies can be used in place of ordinary cookies to store user identifiers, but they are much more difficult to delete and block. This makes it nearly impossible…
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Tech Companies Are Profiling Us From Before Birth
Children today are the very first generation of citizens to be datafied from before birth. The social and political consequences of this historical transformation have yet to be seen. Tens…
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Face Surveillance and the Capitol Attack
After last week’s violent attack on the Capitol, law enforcement is working overtime to identify the perpetrators. This is critical to accountability for the attempted insurrection. Law enforcement has many,…
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Many iOS Encryption Measures ‘Unused,’ Say Cryptographers
iOS does not utilize built-in encryption measures as much as it could do, allowing for potentially unnecessary security vulnerabilities, according to cryptographers at Johns Hopkins University (via Wired). Using publicly…
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This Android malware claims to give hackers full control of your smartphone
A new combination of two older types of Android malware, which provides hackers with access to almost everything a user does on an Android smartphone, is up for sale on…
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EFF: Stop Pushing For More Cryptocurrency Surveillance
EFF submitted comments to the Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) opposing the agency’s proposal for new regulations of cryptocurrency transactions. As we explain in our comments,…
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How Much Should We Really Care about Data Privacy
As data scientists how much should we care data privacy? Well more data means better models and less data means less accurate models. So in a sense the value we…
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