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Google Downloaded Audio Listeners Without Users’ Consent, Chromium users say. Is your microphone on?

Jun

2015

Users of Chromium, the open-source version of Google Chrome, allege that Google listened into the conversations of users through a ‘black box’ of code. It is downloaded to enable a feature that activates a search function when you say “OK, Google,” but the code appears to have enabled eavesdropping on conversations prior to this to […]

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ITE student gets probation for hacking into Istana website

Aug

2014

He had admitted to one of four charges of gaining unauthorised access to the server that hosted the Istana webpage at about 12.45am on Nov 8. He did this after communicating with Delson Moo Hiang Kng, 43, who was fined $8,000 on June 5 for a similar cyber attack around the same time.

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Facebook/Twitter hacks by “friends” on the rise for teens and young adults

Oct

2011

A new survey of American teenagers and young adults has discovered that three out of every 10 have had their Facebook, Twitter or MySpace accounts broken into for the purposes of snooping or impersonation. And most know who was responsible. The poll, conducted by Associated Press-MTV, asked a total of 1355 people between the ages […]

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Google Downloaded Audio Listeners Without Users’ Consent, Chromium users say. Is your microphone on?

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