Millions of Apple Airplay-Enabled Devices Can Be Hacked via Wi-Fi
Apple’s AirPlay feature enables iPhones and Macbooks to seamlessly play music or show photos and videos on other Apple devices or third-party speakers and TVs…
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Car Subscription Features Raise Your Risk of Government Surveillance, Police Records Show
What is also clear from the documents is that US police are aware of the control corporations have over their ability to acquire vehicle location…
Pete Hegseth’s Signal Scandal Spirals Out of Control
As the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration policy ramps up, people have started to seriously consider their privacy and security when crossing into the United States.…
Protecting Your Phone—and Your Privacy—at the US Border
Lauren Goode: I think Katie should go first. She’s the boss. Katie Drummond: So as you all know, because I can’t stop talking about it,…
Gmail’s New Encrypted Messages Feature Opens a Door for Scams
Google announced at the beginning of April that it is launching a streamlined tool that will allow business users to easily send “end-to-end encrypted” emails—an…
The Tech That Safeguards the Conclave’s Secrecy
In 2005, cell phones were banned for the first time during the conclave, the process by which the Catholic Church elects its new pope. Twenty…
How to Protect Yourself From Phone Searches at the US Border
Privacy and digital rights advocates largely prefer the approach of building a travel device from scratch, but they caution that a phone that is too…
Florida Man Enters the Encryption Wars
Just three months into the Trump administration’s promised crackdown on immigration to the United States, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement now has a $30 million contract…
ICE Is Paying Palantir $30 Million to Build ‘ImmigrationOS’ Surveillance Platform
“No other vendor could meet these timeframes of having the infrastructure in place to meet this urgent requirement and deliver a prototype in less than…
New Jersey Sues Discord for Allegedly Failing to Protect Children
Discord is facing a new lawsuit from the state of New Jersey, which claims that the chat app is engaged in “deceptive and unconscionable business…
This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops
On June 5, a Pinal County Board of Supervisors meeting was asked to approve a $500,000 contract between the county and Massive Blue in order…
‘Stupid and Dangerous’: CISA Funding Chaos Threatens Essential Cybersecurity Program
In an eleventh-hour scramble before a key contract was set to expire on Tuesday night, the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency renewed its…