SecurityThe Zoom hack that says, ‘Don’t record me’
If every meeting, watercooler conversation, and date gets transcribed and summarized, who's actually reading any of it?
Jul 19, 20261 min
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SecurityYour personal data is for sale: here is how to take it off the internet
If you could go back to the early days of the internet, would you handle your privacy differently? Most of us would. We would be more cautious about the services we joined and the information we shared. Since a time machine is not an option, we have to deal with the reality of the present. Your personal data is currently available and for sale at this very moment. Right now, your phone number, email address, home address, and even your family connections are being packaged and sold to marketers,
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Telegram shortlinks knocked offline over sanctioned VPN connection
t.me borked for a day until platform proved it had no ties to service favored by cybercriminals
Jul 17, 20261 min
SecurityTech support scam caused massive data breach at Australian airline Qantas
It’s possible to leak PII describing 5.7 million people without breaching privacy rules
Jul 16, 20262 min
SecurityLaw firm insisted on one password to rule them all
Using the admin password, you could be anyone and see anything
Jul 16, 20262 min
SecurityI can’t work on my Mac without this little keypad anymore
Offloading keyboard shortcuts to a programmable macro keypad is the best productivity hack I’ve ever done.
Jul 15, 20263 min
SecurityMicrosoft patches bug in video game Age of Empires II
The vulnerability in the decades-old game could have allowed hackers to take over victims’ computers with a malicious game invite.
Jul 15, 20261 min
SecurityA hacker accessed Suno source code that reportedly details how the company scraped millions of songs
Suno says it was breached in November and "no sensitive personal information was compromised."
Jul 15, 20262 min
SecurityCISA sounds alarm over trio of exploited SharePoint flaws
Three bugs are under active attack, and two more critical holes could add to the pain
Jul 15, 20262 min
SecurityUS charges Russian ‘bulletproof’ web hosts over cyberattacks that netted $62M from cybercrime victims
The 2024 indictment, now unsealed, accuses three Russians and two web hosts of aiding hackers and profiting from cybercrime.
Jul 15, 20261 min
SecurityLegacyHive: 'Bone-shattering' zero-day from Microsoft's serial tormentor not the haymaker that was promised
Experts say it’s a useful post-compromise tool, for those with the brain cells required to put it together
Jul 15, 20263 min
SecurityMusk promises purge after Grok Build caught sending entire repos to the cloud
Researcher confirms the uploads have stopped, but says xAI's privacy command was not what fixed them
Jul 15, 20263 min
SecurityIran abused mobile networks’ vulnerabilities to locate U.S. military in the Middle East, report says
The Iranian government exploited well-known flaws in cellphone networks to locate and then strike U.S. military personnel in the build-up and beginning of the war.
Jul 14, 20261 min
SecurityHands off our VPNs, privacy groups tell UK ministers
Mozilla, Proton, Tor warn ministers that targeting the tech risks creating more problems than it solves
Jul 14, 20262 min
SecurityThe US government warns that Russia state hackers are coming after your router
With residential proxies all the rage, CISA urges router users to be vigilant.
Jul 14, 20261 min
SecurityLos Angeles law enforcement will stop using Flock cameras
The Los Angeles police department did not renew its contract with Flock due to data privacy concerns.
Jul 13, 20261 min
SecurityA ransomware negotiator who colluded with attackers to scam victims was sentenced to 70 months in prison
Angelo Martino helped scam ransomware victims out of over $75 million, officials said.
Jul 13, 20262 min
SecurityNow, defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too
"Context bombing" tricks hacking agents into shutting down before they can do harm.
Jul 13, 20262 min
SecurityHackers quickly prove that Neo Geo Doom ports are not "impossible"
Clever coding and graphical compromises get a classic game on more classic hardware.
Jul 13, 20262 min
SecurityLAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire, citing ‘serious concerns’ over civil liberties and privacy
The LAPD, one of Flock's biggest government customers, is ending its contract with the company citing civil liberties concerns.
Jul 13, 20263 min