Tag: Cybersecurity

AWS wiped my account of 10 years, says open source dev An open source developer claims that AWS has deleted his decade-old account, along with all the data it contained.…

Summary The Library of Congress reported a coding error led to the temporary disappearance of parts of the US Constitution from its online resources. This issue was highlighted by users…

Ron Deibert, the director of Citizen Lab, cautions the cybersecurity industry about the dangers of escalating authoritarianism in the U.S. He warns that big tech companies could hinder the fight…

Facial Recognition Tech Mistook Me For Wanted Man Shaun Thompson’s ordeal with facial recognition technology has sparked a legal challenge against the Metropolitan Police. Stopped outside London Bridge Tube station,…

Call of Duty’s Anti-Cheat Will Require TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot for PC Players Activision has announced that PC players of the upcoming *Call of Duty: Black Ops 7* will…

Summary Amnesty International has accused Elon Musk’s X platform of playing a “central role” in fuelling racially charged violence in the UK after the Southport murders. Following the attack that…

Summary In an alarming incident for users of cloud services, open source developer Abdelkader Boudih claims that Amazon Web Services (AWS) deleted his account of ten years, along with all…

Coding Error Blamed After Parts of Constitution Disappear From US Website The Library of Congress announced that a coding error led to the temporary removal of several sections of the…

Summary Ron Deibert, director of Citizen Lab, is raising alarms about the intersection of technology and authoritarianism in the United States. Speaking prior to his keynote at the Black Hat…

Facial Recognition Tech Mistook Me For Wanted Man Shaun Thompson, a man challenging the Metropolitan Police after being misidentified by live facial recognition technology, describes the incident as “stop and…