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  • Roku Breach Hits 567,000 Users

    After months of delays, the US House of Representatives voted on Friday to extend a controversial warrantless wiretap program for two years. Known as Section 702, the program authorizes the US government to collect the communications of foreigners overseas. But this collection also includes reams of communications from US citizens, which are stored for years and can later be warrantlessly accessed by the FBI, which has heavily abused the program. An amendment that would require investigators to...

  • 576,000 Roku accounts compromised in latest breach

    Roku is again in the spotlight for a data breach compromising user accounts. After reporting more than 15,000 compromised Roku accounts last month, the TV streaming service is disclosing a second breach, this time involving 576,000 more accounts. In about 400 of these accounts, attackers had made unauthorized purchases. The discovery was made during an investigation into the recent security breach. Roku reports that the accounts were accessed using credential stuffing, a process in which...