The multiple suppliers of commercial spyware (nearly) all claim to only sell their products to national governments or authorised law enforcement agencies – yet the use of these products by other agencies seems widespread. Then there is who the national government is! The Canadian based research group Citizen Lab have …
For the parents out there
Also for the grandparents, aunts, uncles, carer, guardians…. This will not make comfortable reading but I thought it was important to highlight this story, in the light of my position on the UK Government’s Online Safety Bill. I am for any actions that work to stop Big Tech ignoring or …
Twitter user data is from an old data breach but Uber’s is a new one!
The vast amount of Twitter user data that has recently been exposed online is from a data breach from 2021, not a new data breach according to Twitter. Twitter confirms recent user data leak is from 2021 breach (bleepingcomputer.com) None of these big tech companies ever give the impression in …
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Law enforcement successes against cyber-crime – even though the criminals used end-to-end encryption
The UK Online Safety Bill wants end to end encryption for everyone removed so law enforcement can solve cyber-crime easier – but good policing does not need it
There are no “good news” Twitter stories
There are reports of even more information about Twitter users is being leaked into the public domain or sold privately between hackers: 5.4 million Twitter users’ stolen data leaked online — more shared privately (bleepingcomputer.com) Just the time to be without a CISO. It looks like you will have to …
