Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:00:00 +0000
The mobile device security firm iVerify has been offering a tool since May that makes spyware scanning accessible to anyone—and it’s already turning up victims.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 20:19:37 +0000
At WIRED’s The Big Interview event, the president of the Signal Foundation talked about secure communications as critical infrastructure and the need for a new funding paradigm for tech.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron, Dhruv Mehrotra| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 19:18:29 +0000
The FTC is targeting data brokers that monitored people’s movements during protests and around US military installations. But signs suggest the Trump administration will be far more lenient.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 19:00:00 +0000
When programmer Micah Lee was kicked off X for a post that offended Elon Musk, he didn’t look back. His new tool for saving and deleting your X posts can give you that same sweet release.
Read moreAI chatbot provider WotNot left a cloud storage bucket exposed that contained almost 350,000 files, including personally identifiable information.
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Credit to Author: rajansanhotra| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 15:53:39 +0000
Sophos is the only vendor named a Customers’ Choice across Endpoint Protection Platforms, Network Firewalls, and Managed Detection and Response
Read moreConsumers are getting caught in a web of scams facilitated by online ads often originating from the same perpetrators.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 13:27:31 +0000
Phishing attacks increased nearly 40 percent in the year ending August 2024, with much of that growth concentrated at a small number of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) — such as .shop, .top, .xyz — that attract scammers with rock-bottom prices and no meaningful registration requirements, new research finds. Meanwhile, the nonprofit entity that oversees the domain name industry is moving forward with plans to introduce a slew of new gTLDs.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron, Andrew Couts| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 13:00:00 +0000
A new proposal by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would use a 54-year-old privacy law to impose new oversight of the data broker industry. But first, the agency must survive Elon Musk.
Read moreCredit to Author: Sunil Bharti| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000
Our researchers identified threat actors exploiting misconfigured Docker servers to spread the Gafgyt malware. This threat traditionally targets IoT devices; this new tactic signals a change in its behavior.
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