Privacy & Intellectual Property
Sneaky Change Allows UK Spies to Legally Hack
A legal complaint by Privacy International and seven comms providers may have been derailed by a little-discussed change to the Computer Misuse Act, making it lawful for spies to hack.
A Summary of That 10-Hour Rand Paul Speech on Bulk Phone Record Collection
US Senator Rand Paul retained the floor of the Senate for 10 hours and 31 minutes whilst voicing his objections to bulk collection of phone CDRs by the NSA. These were the highlights.
Academics Slam Insecure Smart Meter Comms
University researchers have criticized the cryptography in ETSI's Open Smart Grid Protocol (OSGP). They explain how hackers would break its privacy and authenticity.
NSA Mass CDR Collection Was Not Authorized
The US government was defeated when an appeal court ruled the NSA did not have the authority to collect CDRs en masse.
Piracy Workarounds Can Turn You Upside Down
What should you say when a 'customer' asks for help with pirating your software?
Italy and Spain Apply Anti-Piracy Rules
Recent legal decisions demonstrate that Italy and Spain will strictly follow new rules designed to curb internet piracy.
USD25mn Payout for AT&T Data Breach
An FCC investigation of AT&T resulted in the regulator's largest ever penalty for a privacy breach. The personal data of 280,000 customers had been abused as part of a scam to unlock stolen and second-hand handsets.
Euro Law: Hyperlinks are not Comms
A decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union means TV companies cannot be compensated for lost revenues if hyperlinks are used to circumvent their paywalls.
Rare Insight Into GCHQ’s Comms Spies
British parliamentarians have responded to Edward Snowden's NSA leaks with a report that discusses the workings of GCHQ, the UK's international communications spies.
Silent Circle to Offer Blackphone 2, Tablet and More Secure Services
The Blackphone supplier announces a string of new products and services aimed at security-conscious enterprise customers.
Wikimedia Bots Categorize cVidya Under ‘Espionage’
The CTO of cVidya granted a CC license to corporate images and uploaded them to Wikimedia Commons, but failed to notice that a logo was automatically placed in the 'espionage' category.
Hackers Steal TalkTalk Customer Data
Customers of TalkTalk have been plagued by malicious scammers after hackers stole data from the UK telco.
The Commsrisk Global Fraud Dashboard
Our Global Fraud Dashboard uses AI-powered search to collate, update and visualize data about scams and other network abuses from around the world. New charts are added each month. See it here.
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