1.8 TB of Police Helicopter Surveillance Footage Leaks Online - WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/ddosecrets-police-helicopter-data-leak/

The leak illustrates the inherent risk of collecting and retaining sensitive footage that could be breached.

Fraudsters Cloned Company Director’s Voice In $35 Million Bank Heist, Police Find

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/10/14/huge-bank-fraud-uses-deep-fake-voice-tech-to-steal-millions/

AI voice cloning is used in a huge heist being investigated by Dubai investigators, amidst warnings about cybercriminal use of the new technology.

In early 2020, a bank manager in the Hong Kong received a call from a man whose voice he recognized—a director at a company with whom he’d spoken before.

Østre Toten kommune får fire millioner i bot etter dataangrepet mot kommunen – NRK

https://www.nrk.no/innlandet/ostre-toten-kommune-far-fire-millioner-i-bot-etter-dataangrepet-mot-kommunen-1.15695776

kommunen har hatt store mangler på grunnleggende sikkerhet.

– Vi ser at det har vært mangler i logging, av tofaktorautorisering, innen sikkerhetskultur og i rutiner for backup.

Tilsynet skriver i vedtaket at de ser særlig alvorlig på at personopplysninger og opplysninger om barn er rammet av angrepet. Begge har krav på et særskilt vern. Dataene er tapt for kommunen og delt i ukjent omfang på det mørke nettet.

Ledende eksperter advarer mot å skanne mobiler for overgrepsmateriale – NRKBeta

https://nrkbeta.no/2021/10/15/ledende-eksperter-advarer-mot-a-skanne-mobiler-for-overgrepsmateriale/

– Introduksjonen av skanning på våre personlige enheter – enheter som lagrer informasjon fra våre gjørelister, tekstmeldinger og bilder – går midt imot enkeltborgeres behov for personvern. Denne formen for masseinnsamling kan føre til omfattende nedkjølingseffekter på ytringsfriheten og faktisk på selve demokratiet, skriver ekspertene i en artikkel publisert på forskningsnettstedet arXiv.

– Vi mener at CSS verken garanterer effektiv kriminalitetsbekjempelse eller forhindrer overvåkning. Faktisk er effekten det motsatte. CSS vil skape alvorlige sikkerhets- og personvernsrisikoer for hele samfunnet, men hjelpen det kan gi politimyndigheter i beste fall er problematisk, skriver de.

– Dette kan utnyttes til sensur og overvåking av brukere. Det er ingen tekniske hindringer som stopper Apple eller noen andre i å bruke det samme verktøyet til å spore alle brukere som uttaler seg kritisk om regimer, har en annen seksualitet eller religion enn hva statslederne godtar, sier han.

The Risks of Client-Side Scanning

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2021/10/15/the-risks-of-client-side-scanning/

Lithuanian government warns about secret censorship features in Xiaomi phones - The Record

https://therecord.media/lithuanian-government-warns-about-secret-censorship-features-in-xiaomi-phones/

The NSA and CIA Use Ad Blockers Because Online Advertising Is So Dangerous

https://www.vice.com/en/article/93ypke/the-nsa-and-cia-use-ad-blockers-because-online-advertising-is-so-dangerous

The news highlights the continued risk from the online advertising ecosystem. Some hackers leverage how adverts are delivered to send target devices malware. Data brokers and potentially intelligence agencies can leverage the ecosystem to gather information on devices and by extension people, sometimes including their physical location. The IC taking steps to protect itself from the dangers of the advertising ecosystem shows just how malicious it can be.

Apple and Google Remove ‘Navalny’ Voting App in Russia - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/17/world/europe/russia-navalny-app-election.html

The app, created by allies of the opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, vanished from online stores, reflecting a new level of pressure against U.S. technology companies in the country.

Friday’s move could embolden the Kremlin as well as governments elsewhere in the world to use the threat of prosecuting employees to gain leverage against the companies. It presents a test of Silicon Valley ideals around free expression and an open internet, balanced not only against profit but against the safety of their workers.

Facebook Employees Flag Drug Cartels and Human Traffickers. The Company’s Response Is Weak, Documents Show. - WSJ

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-drug-cartels-human-traffickers-response-is-weak-documents-11631812953

How Facebook Hobbled Mark Zuckerberg’s Bid to Get America Vaccinated - WSJ

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-vaccinated-11631880296

Company documents show antivaccine activists undermined the CEO’s ambition to support the rollout by flooding the site and using Facebook’s own tools to sow doubt about the Covid-19 vaccine