Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
Author Jean M. Twenge examines how smartphone and tablet access has impacted the "iGen" (those who grew up around these technologies), including its impact on loneliness, depression, sleep, and other aspects.
Yahoo Secretly Scanned Customer Emails for U.S. Intelligence - Sources
Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials.
Scroogled
In science-fiction author Cory Doctorow's short story "Scroogled," a woman shrugs when she sees "Immigration--Powered by Google" on an airport sign, but that's just the beginning of the search giant's presence in a not-too-distant future.
“Anonymized” Data Really Isn’t—and Here’s Why Not
A computer science graduate student exposes that 87 percent of all Americans could be uniquely identified using only three bits of information, highlighting that almost all information can be "personal" when combined with enough other relevant bits of data.
The Solace of Oblivion
The European Court of Justice, in a broadly worded directive, stated that all individuals in the countries within its jurisdiction had the right to prohibit Google from linking to items that were “inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant, or excessive in relation to the p
A Series of Delays and Major Errors Led to Massive Equifax Breach
A series of costly delays and crucial errors caused Equifax to remain unprotected for months against one of the most severe Web application vulnerabilities in years, the former CEO for the credit reporting service said in written testimony investigating the massive breach that
SamSam Ransomware Hits Hospitals, City Councils, ICS Firms
SamSam Ransomware group targets hospitals, a city council group, and an industrial control system firm in the beginning of 2018. The article provides brief details on the scam.
New Study Shows Just How Bad Vehicle Hacking has Gotten
A report says that the automotive industry has experienced 94% year-over-year growth in hacks since 2016. White hat hackers/bug bounties have accounted for 38% of these hacks, but majority are from black hat hackers.
That Smart TV You Just Bought May be Spying on You, FBI Warns
The FBI issues a statement that smart TVs can make it easier for malicious actors to hack into insecure devices.