Ex-White House Cyber Policy Director: Microsoft is a National Security Risk - Slashdot
This week the Register spoke to former senior White House cyber policy director A.J. Grotto —...
Lying to Investors? Co-Founder of Startup 'HeadSpin' Gets 18-Month Prison Sentence for Fraud - Slashdot
The co-founder of Silicon Valley-based software testing startup HeadSpin was sentenced Friday to 18 months in...
EU: Meta Cannot Rely On 'Pay Or Okay' - Slashdot
The EU's European Data Protection Board oversees its privacy-protecting GDPR policies. Earlier this week, TechCrunch reported...
Insufficient Redundancy? Light-Pole Installation Cut Fiber Line, Triggered Three-State 911 Outage - Slashdot
"Workers installing a light pole in Missouri cut into a fiber line," reports the Associated Press,...
US Passes Bill Reauthorizing 'FISA' Surveillance for Two More Years - Slashdot
Late Friday night the U.S. Senate "reauthorized the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a key. U.S. surveillance...
Sell or Be Banned: Anti-TikTok Bill Passed by US Representatives - Slashdot
The U.S. House of Representatives just passed its long-delayed Ukraine aid bill. But along with it...
Two Major ISPs Threaten They'll Stop Complying With US FISA Orders - Slashdot
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: U.S. government officials were scrambling Friday...
Dutch Privacy Watchdog Recommends Government Organizations Stop Using Facebook - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The Dutch privacy watchdog AP on Friday said...
Cops Can Force Suspect To Unlock Phone With Thumbprint, US Court Rules - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The US Constitution's Fifth Amendment protection against...
Colorado Bill Aims To Protect Consumer Brain Data - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Consumers have grown accustomed to...
Crypto Trader Eisenberg Convicted of Fraud in $110 Million Mango Markets Scheme - Slashdot
A jury found Avraham "Avi" Eisenberg guilty on all three counts of fraud and manipulation in...
Hackers Are Threatening To Publish a Huge Stolen Sanctions and Financial Crimes Watchlist - Slashdot
An anonymous reader shares a report: A financially motivated criminal hacking group says it has stolen...
House Passes Bill Requiring Warrant To Purchase Data From Third Parties - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Hill: The House on Wednesday approved a bill...
Google Workers Arrested After Nine-Hour Protest In Cloud Chief's Office - Slashdot
CNBC reports that nine Google workers were arrested on trespassing charges Tuesday night in protest of...
Escobar Brother Barred by EU Court From Trademarking Family Name - Slashdot
Pablo Escobar, the name of the late Colombian drug kingpin, can't be registered as a trademark...
A Spy Site Is Scraping Discord and Selling Users' Messages - Slashdot
404 Media: An online service is scraping Discord servers en masse, archiving and tracking users' messages...
Telegram Founder Accuses Google and Apple of Censorship Threat - Slashdot
Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram messaging app, has accused tech giants Google and Apple of...
SEC Targets Its Own Staff's Texting, Nixes WhatsApp On Work Phones - Slashdot
The SEC has blocked third-party messaging apps and texts from employees' work phones, "bringing its own...
Google Workers Protest Cloud Contract With Israel's Government - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Dozens of Google employees began occupying company offices...
Apple's iOS 18 AI Will Be On-Device Preserving Privacy, and Not Server-Side - Slashdot
According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple's initial set of AI-related features in iOS 18 "will work...
Judge Refuses To Ctrl-Z Divorce Order Made By a Misclick - Slashdot
Richard Currie reports via The Register: A simple misclick at a London law firm led to...
US Senate To Vote on a Wiretap Bill That Critics Call 'Stasi-Like' - Slashdot
The United States Senate is poised to vote on legislation this week that, for the next...
Justice Department To File Antitrust Suit Against Ticketmaster-Parent Live Nation - Slashdot
The Justice Department is preparing to sue Live Nation as soon as next month [non-paywalled link],...
The IRS's New Tax Software: Rave Reviews, But Low Turnout - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Washington Post: The Biden administration marked the close...
Roku Makes 2FA Mandatory For All After Nearly 600K Accounts Pwned - Slashdot
Roku has made two-factor authentication (2FA) mandatory for all users following two credential stuffing attacks that...
America's Legal System May Be 'Closing In' on Regulating Cryptocurrencies - Slashdot
A business columnist at the Los Angeles Times notes Sam Bankman-Fried's judge issued another ruling "that...
Stop 'Harmful 5G Fast Lanes', Legal Scholar Warns America's FCC - Slashdot
America's FCC votes on net neutrality April 25th. And the director of Stanford Law School's "Center...
Data Collected by the US Justice Department Exposed in Consultant's Breach - Slashdot
DOJ-Collected Information Exposed In Data Breach Affecting 340,000 Information Collected An anonymous reader shared this report...
US Government Says Recent Microsoft Breach Exposed Federal Agencies to Hacking - Slashdot
From the Washington Post: The U.S. government said Thursday that Russian government hackers who recently stole...
Should the US Ban Chinese EVs? - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Influential US Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) has...
House Votes To Extend -- and Expand -- a Major US Spy Program - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: A controversial US wiretap program days from expiration...
96% of US Hospital Websites Share Visitor Info With Meta, Google, Data Brokers - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Hospitals -- despite being places where people...
Your Anonymous OpenTable Reviews Will Soon Display Your First Name - Slashdot
OpenTable's restaurant pages still feature a lot of reviews left by anonymous diners at the moment,...
We Never Agreed To Only Buy HP Ink, Say Printer Owners - Slashdot
HP "sought to take advantage of customers' sunk costs," printer owners claimed this week in a...
Google Is Killing Its VPN Service - Slashdot
An anonymous reader shares a report: If you're -- apparently, one of the few people --...
Amazon Owes $525 Million In Cloud-Storage Patent Fight, US Jury Says - Slashdot
A federal jury in Illinois on Wednesday said Amazon Web Services owes tech company Kove $525...
Hackable Intel and Lenovo Hardware That Went Undetected For 5 Years Won't Ever Be Fixed - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Hardware sold for years by the likes...
US Lawmaker Proposes a Public Database of All AI Training Material - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Amid a flurry of lawsuits over AI...
Apple Will Open the iPhone To Repair With Used Parts - Slashdot
Apple is finally making it easier for users to repair their iPhones with used parts. From...
DuckDuckGo Launches Privacy Pro: A 3-in-1 Service That Includes a VPN - Slashdot
DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused web search and browser company, announced on today the launch of its first...
UK Considers Banning Smartphone Sales To Children Under 16 - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Ministers are considering banning the sale of...
Microsoft Employees Exposed Internal Passwords In Security Lapse - Slashdot
Zack Whittaker and Carly Page report via TechCrunch: Microsoft has resolved a security lapse that exposed...
Biden Considering Request To Drop Assange Charges - Slashdot
President Joe Biden said he is "considering" a request from Australia to drop the prosecution of...
MPA Has Big Plans To Crack Down on Movie Piracy Again - Slashdot
The Motion Picture Association is going off on piracy again. During CinemaCon in Las Vegas, MPA...
Proton Acquires Standard Notes - Slashdot
Privacy startup Proton already offers an email app, a VPN tool, cloud storage, a password manager,...
Cox Plans To Take Piracy Liability Battle To the Supreme Court - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Cox Communications doesn't believe that ISPs should be...
A Breakthrough Online Privacy Proposal Hits Congress - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Congress may be closer than ever to passing...
Insurers Are Spying on Your Home From the Sky - Slashdot
Across the U.S., insurance companies are using aerial images of homes as a tool to ditch...
Crypto Scam Criminal Trial Tests 'Code Is Law' Claim by Trader - Slashdot
A jailed trader accused of stealing $110 million on the Mango Markets exchange faces a criminal...
NIST Blames 'Growing Backlog of Vulnerabilities' Requiring Analysis on Lack of Support - Slashdot
It's the world's most widely used vulnerability database, reports SC Magazine, offering standards-based data on CVSS...