James Ball reports: GCHQ’s bulk surveillance of electronic communications has scooped up emails to and from journalists working for some of the US and UK’s largest media organisations, analysis of documents released by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals. Emails from the BBC, Reuters, the Guardian, the New York Times, Le Monde, the Sun, NBC and the…
Category: Breaches
All Verizon Customer Emails Were Opened Up To Hackers Thanks To Glaring Bug
Thomas Fox-Brewster reports: US telecoms giant Verizon has had a bad couple of years from a privacy point of view, from revelations of unrestrained NSA access to its’ customers call metadata or “permacookies” that could have permanently tracked users web activity. It could do without any other embarrassment, but on Sunday a researcher revealed a glaring vulnerability related…
Pittsburgh Police Chief McLay has officers sign memo not to leak info
Margaret Harding and Bob Bauder report: A city administration that prides itself on transparency and openness said Wednesday it supports a message to police officers to zip their lips or face discipline. Pittsburgh police Chief Cameron McLay ordered officers and other police employees this week to sign a “memorandum of individual responsibility” in the presence…
How Verizon and Turn Defeat Browser Privacy Protections
Jacob Hoffman-Andrews writes: Verizon advertising partner Turn has been caught using Verizon Wireless’s UIDH tracking header to resurrect deleted tracking cookies and share them with dozens of major websites and ad networks, forming a vast web of non-consensual online tracking. Explosive research from Stanford security expert Jonathan Mayer shows that, as we warned in November, Verizon’s UIDH header is…