Mark your calendar for the net neutrality Day of Action

Tomorrow - July 12 - is the Internet-Wide Day of Action, with big online names from Kickstarter and Vimeo to Reddit and Spotify banding together to express their objection to overturning rules that guarantee net neutrality

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Commercial spyware unleashed against Mexican political activists

The software company says it vets governments' human rights records before selling its software that's allegedly being used to spy on lawyers, journalists and activists

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Judge demands cellphone passwords from social media star

Hencha Voigt and her partner Wesley Victor were unable to unlock their phones despite the judge's order - and the case highlights some inconsistencies in the law

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Bank accounts raided after crooks exploit huge flaw in mobile networks

The SS7 protocol has always been vulnerable - and now the carriers' complacency has come home to roost

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Why isn’t US military email protected by standard encryption tech?

STARTTLS, which is used to secure the email handled by many organizations, isn't perfect, but it can be useful

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New privacy rules at risk as Trump prepares to take office

Changes in FCC membership mean restrictions on what data ISPs collect about you could be overturned

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Uber, Apple Maps and location tracking: what’s really going on?

Uber sparked privacy fears with its always-on tracking of iPhone users' location - but it's got an explanation

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‘Meltdown’ over international cybersecurity agreement

Updating Wassenaar Agreement rules could harm cybersecurity thanks to new definition of tools as 'weapons'

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Ransomware payouts ‘heading for $1bn a year’

Businesses 'stocking up on bitcoin to pay ransoms'

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Facebook ‘quietly developing censorship tool’ for China

Tool would be offered to third parties to monitor stories that 'bubble up' as users share them

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How a $5 Raspberry Pi Zero can hack your locked laptop

PoisonTap is toxic even to the password-protected laptop - make sure it doesn't happen to you

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Who needs a Stingray when Wi-Fi can do the job?

Ordinary Wi-Fi hotspots can be used to extract indentifiers from your cellphone, researchers have found

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$5 million dollars paid as Facebook’s bug bounty program turns 5

Since its birth, Facebook's pioneering bug bounty program has uncovered 900 bugs and paid out over $5,000,000.

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BuzzFeed latest high-profile victim of OurMine hackers

It appears that the hacking group didn't appreciate being described as 'brainchild of a soccer-obsessed high school student'

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Password-protect your Wi-Fi hotspots and ask for user details too, rules ECJ

The ECJ has ruled that Wi-Fi hotspot operators aren’t liable for copyright infringements, but they may have to demand users' identities and password-protect their networks.

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The US gets its first Chief Information Security Officer

Touhill will head up programs designed to protect US government networks and critical infrastructure

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