Tag: hacking
  • Oct 4, 2021 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • Cybersecurity, Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media, Surveillance,

Australian Police Can Now Spy On Citizens, Disrupt Their Computers, Take Over Their Online Accounts, and Change Their Data

Privacy News Online has just written about a troubling proposal by Apple to carry out surveillance directly on iPhones. In Australia, the situation is even worse. There, the government has just rushed through the Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill 2020, which gives the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission … Continue reading “Australian Police Can Now Spy On Citizens, Disrupt Their Computers, Take Over Their Online Accounts, and Change Their Data”

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  • May 3, 2021 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Social Media, Surveillance,

What happens to privacy once AIs start hacking systems – and people?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has mostly figured in this blog because of its ability to sift through information – for example, finding patterns in data, or matching faces. But one of the reasons that AI is such a powerful and important technology is that it is completely general: it can be applied to almost anything. As … Continue reading “What happens to privacy once AIs start hacking systems – and people?”

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Teen who hacked Twitter accounts of Biden, Obama, Musk, Bezos and more is sentenced to 3 years in prison

Graham Ivan Clark, age 18 was sentenced to three years in prison followed by three years of probation after pleading guilty to hacking into high-profile Twitter accounts when he was 17 years old. Clark managed to gain access to numerous accounts of powerful people and celebrities, such as: Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Elon … Continue reading “Teen who hacked Twitter accounts of Biden, Obama, Musk, Bezos and more is sentenced to 3 years in prison”

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  • Feb 13, 2020 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments,

What happens to privacy when China has personal data and the social graph of nearly everyone in the US?

The speech by US Attorney General William P. Barr hardly seems earth-shattering. But buried within its business-like announcement of the indictment of four Chinese military hackers, there is the following statement, which has huge implications for privacy: For years, we have witnessed China’s voracious appetite for the personal data of Americans, including the theft of … Continue reading “What happens to privacy when China has personal data and the social graph of nearly everyone in the US?”

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Performing Ethical Hacking Through a VPN Service for a Full Attack Simulation

A major difficulty in defending against attackers and performing accurate attribution, lies in the fact that threat actors often route their traffic through the proverbial seven proxies. Defenders often spend many hours determining the source of malicious traffic, only to find that the attacker has compromised the web server of an unrelated victim somewhere on … Continue reading “Performing Ethical Hacking Through a VPN Service for a Full Attack Simulation”

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  • Nov 20, 2017 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments,

Two ways to help preserve privacy in an age of massive leaks and deep hacks

We live in the golden age of leaks. That’s not to say that leaks didn’t happen before. But the move to digital data and the availability of high-speed Internet connections has made the exfiltration of data on a massive scale much easier. Where in 1971 Daniel Ellsberg had to photocopy 7,000 pages of what became … Continue reading “Two ways to help preserve privacy in an age of massive leaks and deep hacks”

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