It’s the first time we’ve gone after a stalking app, the FTC said. In this case, that would be a stalking app that got breached – twice.

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The researchers’ “Smart Spies” apps showed how Amazon Alexa and Google Home users could be exposed to vishing and eavesdropping.

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NordVPN has been forced to admit that a hacker stole an expired TLS certificate key used to securely connect customers to its web servers.

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It took down four foreign interference campaigns and announced initiatives to prevent foreign interference in US elections.

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A property management company owned by hotel chain Best Western has exposed 179 GB of sensitive travel information on thousands of travelers.

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The disks are part of the command centres that run the country’s nuclear missile deterrent on behalf of SACCS.

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How much of our stuff is going to the cloud? Probably a lot more than you realize. Let’s look at the risks and how to mitigate them.

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Now fixed, the Vatican’s new fitness-and-prayer eRosary and its accompanying app, Click to Pray, were found to have a serious privacy bug.

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It’s not a violation of her Fifth Amendment rights, the court said, because it’s a “foregone conclusion” that she knows her phone passcode.

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Rick Osterloh says he discloses smart speaker use when someone enters his home, and the products should probably do so themselves.

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