Meta Hid Face-Recognition Code on 50M Phones, The UK's Device-Scanning Ultimatum & A Burner Phone Ban
Meta quietly embedded unreleased facial-recognition code, internally called "nametag" onto more than 50 million phones through its Meta AI app, then deleted it the day after Wired exposed it. This wee...
12 Jun 35min
Dashlane Confirms Hackers Stole Password Vaults, Pentagon Location Tracking, and Hackers Trick Meta's AI
Dashlane has confirmed hackers stole around 20 encrypted password vaults, and the company is being unusually quiet about how it happened. Plus the Pentagon admits US troops were tracked using commerci...
4 Jun 38min
A Rare Age Verification Win, AI Cameras On School Buses, And A License Plate Tracking Ban
A rare and genuine win against age verification with California following Colorado in exempting Linux and other open source operating systems from its Digital Age Assurance Act, directly because of co...
28 Mai 32min
A Brutal Week for Microsoft Security, Signal Threatens to Leave Canada, And Bitwarden Quietly Shifts
A brutal week for Microsoft with seven vulnerability stories, an actively exploited Exchange zero-day, the MiniPlasma exploit (rooted in a six-year-old Project Zero report Microsoft sat on), and Pwn2O...
20 Mai 41min
Linux's Rough Run, ICE's 20M Palantir Database & Android Good/Bad News
Linux gets hit with a third major vulnerability in as many weeks, a Palantir-built database of 20 million people, and Android delivers both bad news (a new VPN leak Google has refused to patch) and go...
14 Mai 37min
CopyFail Explained, Utah's New VPN Law, and Microsoft Edge Keeping Passwords in Plaintext
This week's Surveillance Report covers the most severe Linux threat in years sending researchers and admins scrambling, Apple patching the bug police were using to extract deleted Signal messages from...
8 Mai 32min
VPNs Could Make You an NSA Target, North Korea's Supply Chain Hijack & the EU Kills Chat Control
The government told you to use a VPN, but are you actually making yourself a target for NSA surveillance in the process? This week's highlight story digs into a letter from six US lawmakers pressing i...
10 Apr 54min
Two iOS Exploits, Google's Android Lockdown & Instagram Drops Encryption
This week's Surveillance Report covers two sophisticated zero-click iOS exploit frameworks: Coruna and DarkSword hit hundreds of millions of iPhones in the span of a single week. Google finally reveal...
31 Mar 49min
