4.8 million records from a Hong Kong toy company were compromised. Source: When children are breached: Inside the massive VTech hack | Ars Technica UK

The U.S. National Security Agency will end its daily vacuuming of millions of Americans’ phone records by Sunday and replace the practice with more tightly >>>

Hervé Falciani sentenced in his absence for financial espionage by federal court for exposing wrongdoing at HSBC’s private Swiss bank Source: HSBC whistleblower given five >>>

The study, by Harvard University in Massachusetts, compared Apple’s results with similar searches for the term ‘Samsung Galaxy slow’, and found the term was unaffected >>>

Source: Beware, latest Windows 10 Update may remove programs automatically – gHacks Tech News

Source: Microsoft’s Software Is Malware – GNU Project – Free Software Foundation

“A few years back we were in the golden age for spying on the general public,” says Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia. He is giving >>>

Root certificate debacle that hit Lenovo now visits the House of Dell. Source: Dell does a Superfish, ships PCs with easily cloneable root certificates | >>>

The New York Times gets a new NSA doc confirming what some had long suspected. Source: It’s official—NSA did keep its e-mail metadata program after >>>

Secretary of state attributes the information dump to a “clerical error.” Source: Georgia sent out CDs of data from 6 million voters containing SSNs, birth >>>