HOPE Hacking Conference Banned From University Venue Over Apparent ‘Anti-Police Agenda’

The legendary hacker conference Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) says that it has been “banned” from St. John’s University, the venue where it has held the last several HOPE conferences, because someone told the university the conference had an “anti-police agenda.” HOPE was held at St. John’s University in 2022, 2024, and 2025, and was…

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ACLU and EFF Sue a City Blanketed With Flock Surveillance Cameras

Lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sued the city of San Jose, California over its deployment of Flock’s license plate-reading surveillance cameras, claiming that the city’s nearly 500 cameras create a pervasive database of residents movements in a surveillance network that is essentially impossible to avoid.  The lawsuit…

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Airlines Will Shut Down Program That Sold Your Flights Records to Government

Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), a data broker owned by the U.S.’s major airlines, will shut down a program in which it sold access to hundreds of millions of flight records to the government and let agencies track peoples’ movements without a warrant, according to a letter from ARC shared with 404 Media. ARC says it…

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Infostealers: The silent doorway to identity attacks — and why proactive defense matters

Credential theft isn’t just an inconvenience. It’s often the first move in a chain reaction that ends in full-scale compromise.  Beyond the dreaded password reset process, information stealers, as shown in several recent cyberattacks, can have far more consequential follow-on effects.   For many small and mid-sized organizations, a single stolen identity can lead to…

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