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Sri Lanka reveals another missing payment, days after hackers stole $2.5 million from its finance ministry
Sri Lanka said on Tuesday that a payment of about $625,000 (about 199.7 million Sri Lankan rupees) to the US Postal Service has been missing for…
The US Supreme Court appears divided on the controversial use of ‘geofence’ search warrants.
The US Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments in a landmark legal case that could redefine digital privacy rights for people across the United States. The…
Paragon is not cooperating with Italian authorities investigating spyware attacks, the report said
Last year, WhatsApp and Apple notified several people in Italy, including journalists and activists, that they had been targeted by government spyware. In particular, WhatsApp pointed…
US energy technology company Itron has confirmed that it was cyberattacked in mid-April and that hackers had gained access to some of its systems. In a…
A man accused of conducting cyberattacks on behalf of the Chinese government has been extradited to the United States and faces more than a decade in…
More than half the world’s governments have access to commercial spyware that can break into computers and phones to steal sensitive information, according to British intelligence…
Surveillance vendors caught abusing telecom access to track people’s phone locations, investigators say
Security researchers have uncovered two separate spying campaigns that exploit known weaknesses in the global telecommunications infrastructure to track people’s locations. Researchers say these two campaigns…
Yet another government spyware maker has been arrested after its customers used fake Android apps to install the surveillance software on targets, according to a new…
Trump’s two-time pick to head the US federal cybersecurity agency CISA has asked to step down from the post, leaving the agency without a clear person…
App and website hosting giant Vercel on Thursday said hackers accessed some of its customers’ data before the company discovered the recent data breach, suggesting that…