How to Avoid Black Friday Scams Online
[ad_1] Black Friday attracts crowds, and crowds attract scammers, and that means you need to take extra care when shopping online over the Black Friday and Cyber Monday weekend. There’ll…
Elon Musk’s Twitter Risks Big Fines From US Regulators
[ad_1] The FTC’s treatment of Facebook helps illustrate the danger to Musk and Twitter. In 2019, following a complaint alleging violation of a 2012 order, the agency hit the company…
EufyCam 3 Review: Best Subscription-Free Security Camera
[ad_1] The EufyCam 3 is by far the most accomplished camera system from Eufy yet, with a combination of features that will catapult it to the top of many wish…
A Destabilizing Hack-and-Leak Operation Hits Moldova
[ad_1] It was a truly wild week in the tech industry as new details emerged about the FTX cryptocurrency exchange’s collapse and Elon Musk drove an ever-increasing number of Twitter…
Here’s How Bad a Twitter Mega-Breach Would Be
[ad_1] “Twitter has seemingly neglected security for a very long time, and with all the changes, there is risk for sure,” says David Kennedy, CEO of the incident response firm…
What Happens If Twitter Gets Hacked?
[ad_1] Twitter doesn’t work like it used to. Under new ownership, the site is operating with half its usual staff and an entirely new set of executive pressures. As a…
Twitter’s SMS Two-Factor Authentication Is Melting Down
[ad_1] Following two weeks of extreme chaos at Twitter, users are joining and fleeing the site in droves. More quietly, many are likely scrutinizing their accounts, checking their security settings,…
Elon Musk Introduces Twitter Mayhem Mode
[ad_1] The United States took to the polls this week to vote in a high-stakes midterm election. With public trust in election systems at an all-time low, the secret ballot…
Elon Musk’s Twitter Blue Verification Is a Gift to Scammers
[ad_1] At the end of August, Sean Murphy was trying to book a flight between Nairobi, Kenya, and Entebbe, Uganda, with Kenya Airways. “The information on the booking page was…
Russia’s Sway Over Criminal Ransomware Gangs Is Coming Into Focus
[ad_1] Russia-based ransomware gangs are some of the most prolific and aggressive, in part thanks to an apparent safe harbor the Russian government extends to them. The Kremlin doesn’t cooperate…
TikTok Admits Staff in China Can Access Europeans’ Data
[ad_1] Open internet proponents were relieved last month when an American candidate beat a Russian challenger in an election to run the International Telecommunications Union, an important international standards body…
The Most Vulnerable Place on the Internet
[ad_1] The Asia-Africa-Europe-1 internet cable travels 15,500 miles along the seafloor, connecting Hong Kong to Marseille, France. As it snakes through the South China Sea and toward Europe, the cable…
The Rise of Rust, the ‘Viral’ Secure Programming Language That’s Taking Over Tech
[ad_1] These types of vulnerabilities aren’t just esoteric software bugs. Research and auditing have repeatedly found that they make up the majority of all software vulnerabilities. So while you can…
You Need to Update Google Chrome, Windows, and Zoom Right Now
[ad_1] Other issues fixed in October are a heap buffer overflow in WebSQL tracked as CVE-2022-3446 and a use-after-free bug in Permissions API tracked as CVE-2022-3448, Google wrote in its…
China Operates Secret ‘Police Stations’ in Other Countries
[ad_1] For years, AlphaBay ruled the dark web. If you were in the market to buy drugs or stolen credit cards, the digital bazaar was the place to turn. At…
If Musk Starts Firing Twitter’s Security Team, Run
[ad_1] Elon Musk is buying Twitter for $44 billion after the least sexy will-they-won’t-they saga of all time. And while Musk attempted to reassure advertisers yesterday that “Twitter obviously cannot…
IBM Uses Hybrid Cloud To Assist Two European Banking Groups Become Digital
[ad_1] IBM has announced two major core banking modernization projects in Europe using hybrid cloud technology. Rural Services Informaticos (RSI), a Spanish banking IT services company, will use hybrid cloud…
A Pro-China Disinfo Campaign Is Targeting US Elections—Badly
[ad_1] In an attempt to shift that blame, Dragonbridge’s influence campaign went so far as to create spoofed posts from Intrusion Truth, a mysterious pseudonymous Twitter account that has previously…
TikTok’s Security Threat Comes Into Focus
[ad_1] As Russia’s war in Ukraine drags on, Ukrainian forces have proved resilient and mounted increasingly intense counterattacks on Kremlin forces. But as the conflict evolves, it is entering an…
How Vice Society Got Away With a Global Ransomware Spree
[ad_1] Throughout 2021, Vice Society’s health care targets included Barlow Respiratory Hospital in California, Eskenazi Health in Indiana, Centre Hospitalier D’Arles in France, United Health Centers in California, and a…
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Bails on Starlink Funding for Ukraine
[ad_1] Users of the cryptocurrency exchange Celsius are in danger. Last week, as part of its bankruptcy proceedings, the company submitted a 14,500-page document that appears to contain the full…
Google’s Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro Pack New Android VPN and Tensor G2, Titan M2 Chips
[ad_1] When Google launched its flagship Pixel 6 and 6 Pro smartphones last year, the company touted its Tensor “system on a chip” and dedicated Titan M2 security chip as…
Windows 11 Now Offers Automatic Phishing Protection
[ad_1] The latest September 2022 version 22H2 update for Windows 11 includes a new feature designed to keep you even safer than before from phishing attacks: the practice of bad…
Microsoft Exchange Server Has a Zero-Day Problem
[ad_1] There were global ripples in tech policy this week as VPN providers were forced to pull out of India as the country’s new data collection law takes hold, and…
Are You a Victim of Crypto Crime? Good Luck Getting Help
[ad_1] Most day-to-day crime-fighting gets done at the local level, but when it comes to crypto crime, local law enforcement is not prepared to pick up the slack. Many smaller…