Concerned that browser cookies fall short when it comes to tracking mobile devices and their owners on the internet, computer-science boffins believe they can recognize phone-toters using only their keystrokes and accelerometer data.

Microphone embedded in RJ45 plug.

People should worry about online data collection by technology companies because it gives them unparalleled insight into users lives, the creator of one of the biggest web browsers, Opera, said on Thursday.

Dystopia is not very evenly distributed.

I think I aspire to naturalism, which today is easily mistaken for the dystopian. When Neuromancer was published in 1984, it was seen by many as a very dark view of the future indeed; yet I knew that the world was full of millions of people who’d migrate to the Sprawl in a flash, if only they had the chance, and be socioeconomically much better off for it.

The popular 104-key Mantistek GK2 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard that costs around €49.66 has allegedly been caught silently recording everything you type on your keyboard and sending them to a server maintained by the Alibaba Group.

People known to the South Australian police as being at risk of starting fires will be tracked via number plate recognition technology during the 2017-18 bushfire season.

Face ID is the iPhone X’s new touted security feature which is said to be more secure than fingerprints and harder to fool. In fact Apple made a pretty big deal about it by claiming to have worked with makeup artists, mask makers, and others to ensure that all the ways that one could trick Face ID would be covered.

In Pinneberg wird es für einen Nutzer von Amazons Alexa teuer. Der digitale Assistent drehte nachts so laut Musik auf, dass die Polizei gerufen werden musste.

The Tor Project has issued an emergency security bugfix release of Tor Browser, to prevent user IP address leakage due to a still unpatched Firefox bug.

Die Zahl der Internetsperren durch Regierungen hat sich innerhalb von zwei Jahren mehr als verdreifacht: 2017 wurden weltweit bisher 61 Blockaden des Internets gezählt - 43 mehr als im Jahr 2015, wie die deutsche UNESCO-Kommission mitteilte. Die Zahlen gehen aus dem UNESCO-Bericht „Weltweite Trends - Meinungsfreiheit und Medienentwicklung“ hervor, der heute am Hauptsitz der UNO-Kulturorganisation in Paris vorgestellt wird.

Congress just introduced multiple bills to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a law that authorizes controversial NSA surveillance programs and is set to expire at the end of this year. Some of the bills include various ways to fix what is called the "backdoor search" loophole. Currently, the NSA "incidentally" collects the communications of countless Americans and stores those communications in vast databases. 

Demands for more access to private data and control over personal communications devices 'sounds a lot like China', says Obama's director for Cybersecurity Policy.

The formal agreement will allow financial regulators in Australia and China to confidentially share information pertaining to fintech activity in each jurisdiction.

Clickjacking is a malicious technique of tricking a Web user into clicking on something different from what the user perceives they are clicking on, thus potentially revealing confidential information while clicking on seemingly innocuous web pages

 Die Zahl der Internetsperren durch Regierungen hat sich innerhalb von zwei Jahren mehr als verdreifacht: 2017 wurden weltweit bisher 61 Blockaden des Internets gezählt – 43 mehr als im Jahr 2015, wie die Deutsche Unesco-Kommission mitteilte

In a world where most of us are just surplus population, certain temptations are acute indeed.

Mr. Baby’s club in Archangel is envisioned as a scaled-up version of what you get when Berlin’s Weimar bohemia becomes a platform for the postwar black market, so imagine it as primarily extra-legal, but staffed in part by pre-war counterculturists.

My most recent novel, The Peripheral, has two futures, one mid 21st-century, the other mid 22nd-century. And the mid 22nd-century is out-there post-Singularity weird-ass, so I guess I'm already there.

The book I'm currently finishing, called Agency, is set in that same 22nd Century future, but also in a 2017 San Francisco, in a timeline where Trump lost the election (but which is itself no picnic).

the watches allow remote parties to seize control over them in order to monitor children's movements and see where they've gone, covertly listen in on them, and steal their personal information. The data the watches gather and transmit to offshore servers is copious and sent in the clear. The watches incorporate cameras and the photos children take are also easily plundered by hackers.