WhatsApp says Paragon is spying on specific users

WhatsApp has accused the professional spyware company Paragon of spying on a select group of users. WhatsApp, the Meta-owned, end-to-end encrypted messaging platform, said it has reliable information that nearly 100 journalists and other “members of civil society” were targets of a spyware campai...

Free Press Advocates Decry Cybercrime Charges Against Glenn Greenwald

Brazil has accused journalist Glenn Greenwald of aiding a hacking ring, with seemingly scant evidence...

Ecuador to Withdraw Asylum for Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange

After protecting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for almost six years, Ecuador is now planning to withdraw its political asylum, probably next week, and eject him from its London embassy—eventually would turn him over to the British authorities. Lenín Moreno, the newly-elected President of...

Hotspot Shield VPN accused of redirecting user traffic to advertisers

By Waqas A renowned privacy group Center for Democracy Technology CDT has This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hotspot Shield VPN accused of redirecting user traffic to advertisers...

Craig Wright Will Move Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin to Prove His Claim

Yesterday, BBC broke a story allegedly revealing Craig Wright as the original creator of Bitcoin digital currency Satoshi Nakamoto. However, the highly skeptical cryptographic community is definitely not yet convinced with the technical proofs Wright has yet provided to the media outlets and on h...

Ubuntu Linux is a spyware ?

Creator of the GNU Project & Free Software Foundation's Leader Richard Stallman has called out Ubuntu as being "spyware". Why ? Because the operating system sends data to Ubuntu maker Canonical when a user searches the desktop. How ? Due to the Amazon search capabilities that have been integrated...

Trojan Makes Child-Porn Accusation, Locks Computer, Requests $17

A new ransomware scam locks down its victims’ computers, attempting to convince them that child pornography has been found therein, and informs users that their machine will be unlocked only after paying a $17 500 ruble fine, according to a BitDefender analysis reported by MalwareCity. The trojan...

Mozilla Apologizes for Blaming Malware on Developers

Mozilla acknowledged that it had falsely accused a developer of infecting a Firefox add-on with attack code. The admission came a week after Mozilla announced that a pair of add-ons, Sothink Web Video Downloader 4.0 and Master Filer, had slipped through its security check-in. Read the full articl...