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ComputerWorld Independent 

Think the video call mute button keeps you safe? Think again

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Credit to Author: Evan Schuman| Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 11:35:00 -0700

Have you recently been on a video confefence call, hit the “mute” button and then offered up some nasty comments about a client or a colleague — or even the boss?

Or maybe while in a conference room with colleagues — muted — and pointed out that some proposed action would violate the terms of a secret acquisition in its final stages?

If you were comfortable that the mute button was actively protecting your secret, you shouldn’t have been.

Thanks to some impressive experimentation and research from a group of academics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Loyola University Chicago, utterances made while the app is in mute are still captured and saved into RAM.

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MalwareBytes Security 

“Reject All” cookie consent button is coming to European Google Search and YouTube

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Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 10:39:42 +0000

Soon, all countires in Europe, including the UK and Switzerland, will have the power to accept all and reject all cookies with a single click.

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MalwareBytes Security 

Apple’s child safety features are coming to a Messages app near you

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Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2022 13:34:51 +0000

Apple will soon be rolling out its promised child safety features in the Messages app for users in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the UK

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MalwareBytes Security 

Pegasus spyware found on UK government office phone

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Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2022 19:32:28 +0000

The NSO Group’s flagship spyware was found on a device in 10 Downing Street’s network.

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ComputerWorld Independent 

California eyes law to protect workers from digital surveillance

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Credit to Author: Matthew Finnegan| Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2022 09:01:00 -0700

The California State Assembly is considering new rules that would offer workers greater protection from the use of digital monitoring tools by employers.

The “Workplace Technology Accountability Act” (AB 1651), introduced by Assemblymember Ash Kalra, would create a way to protect workers against the use of technologies that can negatively affect privacy and wellbeing.

The bill would “establish much needed, yet reasonable, limitations on how employers use data-driven technology at work,” Kalra told the Assembly Labor and Employment Committee on Wednesday. “The time is now to address the increasing use of unregulated data-driven technologies in the workplace and give workers — and the state — the necessary tools to mitigate any insidious impacts caused by them.”

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MalwareBytes Security 

Beware tragic “my daughter died…” Facebook posts offering free PS5s

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Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 13:11:47 +0000

We take a look at multiple posts made to Facebook claiming to offer up a PS5 after the death of a loved one.

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ComputerWorld Independent 

Apple has good privacy arguments, but critics aren't listening

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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 09:41:00 -0700

Apple CEO Tim Cook this week warned that regulators are on the edge of making poor decisions that will impact our future during a passionate speech in defense of personal privacy and his company’s business models at the Global Privacy Summit in Washington DC.

Neither good nor evil

The thrust of Cook’s argument is that privacy and security are essential building blocks of trust for a technologically advanced society. But that huge potential is being constrained by surveillance and insecurity.

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