Webcam hacker spent up to 12 hours a day watching his victims
A hacker who used the notorious Blackshades RAT malware to hijack webcams on computers, and secretly watch people engaged in sexual activity, has received a suspended prison sentence.
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A hacker who used the notorious Blackshades RAT malware to hijack webcams on computers, and secretly watch people engaged in sexual activity, has received a suspended prison sentence.
The convenience of public Wi-Fi for many people is invaluable, yet there are risks. With all this in mind, here are 10 tips to staying safe.
In this hi-tech age, your face is increasingly becoming a digital ID for authenticating who you are online. We look at how facial recognition works.
The Impact Team have released stolen Ashley Madison data on the dark web, which includes personal information belonging to 37 million users of the website.
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Windows 10 offers more personalisation and integration than ever before. We take a look at the privacy implications of this.
Hacker sends woman images of herself and her boyfriend, which were captured through their own webcam.
Security researchers have created a practical privacy attack out of a well-known theory around user behaviour. The attack appears to defeat privacy measures such as Tor.
Accidental ‘pocket dials’ are now admissible in evidence against you, the US Appeals court has ruled.
A group of six academics have published a paper describing a new high speed anonymity network that could increase the privacy of internet users everywhere.
Smartwatch security is noticeably absent in most devices, leaving users at risk of cyberattacks.
A planned Defcon talk around a low-cost privacy device called ProxyHam has been cancelled.
Telco T-Mobile’s US arm received more data requests than its larger peers in 2014.
A series of more than 160 data breaches have struck local authorities in Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire over the past year, according to new reports.
Internet name authority ICANN has unsettled privacy advocates after a new working group document flagged changes to the way domain proxy services can operate.
Apple will reportedly introduce a new privacy update for the iPhone that will prevent installed iOS apps from seeing which other apps have been downloaded to the device.
An ingenious team of Israeli security researchers at Tel Aviv University have discovered a way to steal secret encryption keys using a gadget so small it can be hidden inside some pita bread.
Popular meme site Reddit has announced that it will soon encrypt all traffic with HTTPS by default.
Privacy search engine DuckDuckGo has seen traffic rocket after recent widely publicized privacy scares, according to the company.
The 28 EU member states have taken a significant step towards a historic overhaul of EU-wide data protection laws, first proposed three years ago.
Wikimedia has announced that all of its web properties – including the enormously popular crowd-sourced dictionary Wikipedia – will now use HTTPS encryption by default.