A Police App Exposed Secret Details About Raids and Suspects
[ad_1] Last September, law enforcement agents from five counties in Southern California coordinated an operation to investigate, raid, and arrest more than 600 suspected sex offenders. The mission, Operation Protect the…
What Is Flipper Zero? The Hacker Tool Going Viral on TikTok, Explained
[ad_1] Across the US, countless buildings, from government offices to your next hotel room door, are protected by RFID-controlled locks. On a recent trip to my office, I passed nearly…
China’s Police State Targets Zero-Covid Protesters
[ad_1] It was another busy week in security that saw big news about protests, surveillance, spyware, data breaches, and more. In the US, recent court filings detail how the FBI’s use…
Elon Musk Introduces Twitter Mayhem Mode
[ad_1] The United States took to the polls this week to vote in a high-stakes midterm election. With public trust in election systems at an all-time low, the secret ballot…
Inside the ‘Election Integrity App’ Built to Purge US Voter Rolls
[ad_1] Ten days before Georgia’s Senate runoff election in 2021, Gamaliel Warren Turner Sr., a 69-year-old veteran, found out that someone in his county had challenged his eligibility to vote.…
Swatted: A Shooting Hoax Spree Is Terrorizing Schools Across the US
[ad_1] At 1:15 pm on September 15, a man who identified himself as Tom Gomez called Sangamon County Central Dispatch in Illinois to report that two gunmen had shot a…
The Ungodly Surveillance of Anti-Porn ‘Shameware’ Apps
[ad_1] “It’s really not about pornography,” says Brit, a former user of Accountable2You who asked to only be identified by her first name, due to privacy concerns. “It’s about making…