Genome Hackers Show No One’s DNA Is Anonymous Anymore | WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/genome-hackers-show-no-ones-dna-is-anonymous-anymore/
60% of Americans of European descent can be identified via public DNA databases, regardless of whether they’ve submitted their own DNA data or not
As Facebook has shown a lack of caution and unquenchable desire for personal info, debuting Portal home video chat devices is just its latest tone-deaf decision
Google+ bug gave outsiders potential access to private data from 2015 to mid-2018; no disclosure made amid fear of blowback and no evidence of misuse - WSJ
The Cybersecurity World Is Debating WTF Is Going on With Bloomberg’s Chinese Microchip Stories - Motherboard
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qv9npv/bloomberg-china-supermicro-apple-hack
No one is really sure who to believe after Businessweek’s bombshell story on an alleged Chinese supply chain attack against Apple, Amazon, and others.
Russia Targeted Investigators Trying to Expose Its Misdeeds, Western Allies Say - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/us/politics/russia-hacks-doping-poisoning.html
the British foreign ministry, antidoping agencies in Colorado Springs and Canada, and investigators examining the shooting down of a Malaysian passenger jet over Ukraine in 2014
You Gave Facebook Your Number For Security. They Used It For Ads. | Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/you-gave-facebook-your-number-security-they-used-it-ads
Add “a phone number I never gave Facebook for targeted advertising” to the list of deceptive and invasive ways Facebook makes money off your personal information.
Facebook Hack Puts Thousands of Other Sites at Risk - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/technology/facebook-hack-other-sites.html
Companies that allow customers to log in with Facebook Connect are scrambling to figure out whether their own user accounts have been compromised.