Zack Whittaker reports: Last October, TechCrunch revealed a consumer-grade spyware security issue that’s putting the private phone data, messages and locations of hundreds of thousands of people, including Americans, at risk. But in this case it’s not just one spyware app exposing people’s phone data. It’s an entire fleet of Android spyware apps that share the same…
Category: Breaches
NWMSU student charged for invasion of privacy
Nick Ingram reports: A Northwest Missouri State University student has been charged after allegedly filming students without their consent. According to court documents, Logan D. Fainter was charged with felony invasion of privacy after two victims reported that a cell phone was pointed at them while they were in the shower on on the third…
After Sexual Harassment Lawsuit, Critics Attack Harvard’s Release of Therapy Records
Anemona Hartocollis reports: In 2020, after Lilia Kilburn, a graduate student, filed a formal complaint notifying Harvard University that an anthropology professor was sexually harassing her, an investigation was opened, as required by federal law. What happened next stunned Ms. Kilburn, according to her lawyers. In the course of that investigation, Harvard obtained notes from…
Privacy Family Safety App Touting Digital Security Leaves Its Own Users’ Sensitive Data at Risk
Family Safety App Touting Digital Security Leaves Its Own Users’ Sensitive Data at Risk Former employees said Life360 executives knew about security gaps By: Alfred Ng and Jon Keegan The family safety app Life360 doesn’t have some standard guardrails to prevent a hacker from taking over an account and accessing sensitive information, The Markup has…