Privacy boundaries tested as start-up promises humans will only be added to database with their consent – apart from the celebs it added without their consent, that is

Man who hacked 130 celebrities jailed for five years
Victim Naturi Naughton tells court she felt ‘violated and out of control’ by the hacking

Making calls on the plane? Spies may have your number
Snowden papers reveal that NSA and GCHQ have been trying to intercept calls made on flights for more than a decade

Flaw spotted in North Korea’s Red Star operating system
Flaw in bundled browser could give an attacker complete control over a user’s PC

DailyMotion Hack Leaks Emails, Passwords of 87M Users
The video sharing website DailyMotion admitted early Tuesday that it recently suffered an “external security problem” which resulted in the compromise of its users data.

News in brief: porn database hacked; Obama call to Trump; MPs move on Snooper’s Charter
Your daily round-up of what else is in the news

EFF Blasts DEA in Ongoing Secret ‘Super Search Engine’ Lawsuit
EFF is dismayed by the cavalier attitude by law enforcement over warrantless searches of trillions of phone records and its refusal to turn over documents.

Mozilla Patches Firefox Zero Day Used to Unmask Tor Browser Users
Mozilla released a new version of Firefox on Wednesday to address a zero day vulnerability that was actively being exploited to de-anonymize Tor Browser users.

Rule 41 Opponents Vow to Fight Government’s New Hacking Powers
Opponents of the controversial Rule 41 say they are committed to fighting the government’s expanded powers.

Hackers reuse passwords to access 26,500 National Lottery accounts
If you’ve been affected – and even if you haven’t – now is a good time to stop re-using passwords