Enhanced License Plate Tracking

The surveillance company Leonardo wants more data: A surveillance company plans to add sensors to automatic license plate readers ALPRs that would mean the devices, as well as capture the license plate of passing vehicles, would also sweep up unique identifiers of mobile phones, wearables, and...

CVE-2026-26340

Tattile Smart+, Vega, and Basic device families firmware versions 1.181.5 and prior expose RTSP streams without requiring authentication. A remote attacker can connect to the RTSP service and access live video/audio streams without valid credentials, resulting in unauthorized disclosure of...

CVE-2026-26340

The CVE-2026-26340 entry affects Tattile Smart+, Vega, and Basic device families on firmware versions 1.181.5 and earlier, where RTSP streams are exposed without authentication. The underlying issue is unauthenticated access to live video/audio streams, enabling unauthorized surveillance data dis...

PT-2026-21788

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Tattile Smart+ versions prior to 1.181.6 Tattile Vega versions prior to 1.181.6 Tattile Basic versions prior to 1.181.6 Description The firmware on Tattile Smart+, Vega, and Basic device families, versions 1.181.5 and earlier, allows...

Car Subscription Features Raise Your Risk of Government Surveillance, Police Records Show

Records reviewed by WIRED show law enforcement agencies are eager to take advantage of the data trails generated by a flood of new internet-connected vehicle features...

Bruce Schneier predicts a future of AI-powered mass spying: Lock and Code S05E03

This week on the Lock and Code podcast… If the internet helped create the era of mass surveillance, then artificial intelligence will bring about an era of mass spying. That’s the latest prediction from noted cryptographer and computer security professional Bruce Schneier, who, in December, share...

Google Is Using Its Vast Data Stores to Train AI

No surprise, but Google just changed its privacy policy to reflect broader uses of all the surveillance data it has captured over the years: Research and development: Google uses information to improve our services and to develop new products, features and technologies that benefit our users and...

Feds Forced Travel Firms to Share Surveillance Data on Hacker

The U.S. government ordered two travel companies to provide information about the movement of a Russian citizen suspected of hacking. The surveillance data was used as part of an investigation by the U.S. Secret Service, according to court documents recently unsealed. The revelation of the extent...

North Korean Hackers Used 'Torisma' Spyware in Job Offers-based Attacks

A cyberespionage campaign aimed at aerospace and defense sectors in order to install data gathering implants on victims' machines for purposes of surveillance and data exfiltration may have been more sophisticated than previously thought. The attacks, which targeted IP-addresses belonging to...

Security and Privacy Implications of Zoom

Over the past few weeks, Zoom's use has exploded since it became the video conferencing platform of choice in today's COVID-19 world. My own university, Harvard, uses it for all of its classes. Boris Johnson had a cabinet meeting over Zoom. Over that same period, the company has been exposed for...