surveillance

Facial recognition algorithms can track your movements with amazing accuracy. But if you know how they work you can trick them.

Kaspersky Lab researchers examined one city’s network of surveillance cameras and determined that the systems were not very secure.

Everybody knows about flying drones, but there are also swimming and diving drones that patrol ports and ships, demine shores and so on. Let’s take a closer look at maritime robots.

A New York artist made an exhibition out of making a single private and anonymous cell phone call outside the scope of government spying. Here’s how he did it:

The Electronic Frontier Foundation recently graded a slew of mobile and Internet messaging services based on security and privacy. Here we list the low scorers.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation recently graded a slew of mobile and Internet messaging services based on security and privacy. Here we detail the top scorers.

In the news this week: more APT campaigns, a look forward at the DEF CON and Black Hat Hacker conferences, and good and bad news for Facebook.

In the news: Microsoft’s No-IP takedown fiasco, Chinese APT groups curious about U.S. Iraq policy, Verizon says the government wants locations data, and Microsoft denies backdoor insinuations.