Credit to Author: Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: New details emerge in the National Public Data breach, Discord gets blocked in Russia and Turkey over alleged illegal activity on the platform, and more.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Scammers in Southeast Asia are increasingly turning to AI, deepfakes, and dangerous malware in a way that makes their pig butchering operations even more convincing.
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Credit to Author: Dan Goodin, Ars Technica| Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2024 09:30:00 +0000
It’s hard enough creating one air-gap-jumping tool. Researchers say the group GoldenJackal did it twice in five years.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman, Kate Knibbs| Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 02:00:19 +0000
The hack exposed the data of 31 million users as the embattled Wayback Machine maker scrambles to stay online and contain the fallout of digital—and legal—attacks.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2024 16:02:20 +0000
The $4.4 billion in crypto is set to be the largest pile of criminal proceeds ever sold off by the US. The former IRS agent who seized the recording-breaking sum, meanwhile, languishes in a Nigerian jail cell.
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Credit to Author: Kate O’Flaherty| Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2024 15:39:49 +0000
Earlier this year, Google ditched its plans to abolish support for third-party cookies in its Chrome browser. While privacy advocates called foul, the implications for users is not so clear cut.
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Credit to Author: Dan Goodin, Ars Technica| Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2024 13:30:00 +0000
Perfctl malware is hard to detect, persists after reboots, and can perform a breadth of malicious activities.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: Harvard students pack Meta’s smart glasses with privacy-invading face-recognition tech, Microsoft and the DOJ seize Russian hackers’ domains, and more.
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Credit to Author: Jared Keller| Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2024 11:30:00 +0000
After decades of relying on buttons, switches, and toggles, the Pentagon has embraced simple, ergonomic video-game-style controllers already familiar to millions of potential recruits.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess, Dhruv Mehrotra| Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2024 10:30:00 +0000
From Trump campaign signs to Planned Parenthood bumper stickers, license plate readers around the US are creating searchable databases that reveal Americans’ political leanings and more.
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