Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Single sign-on systems from several Big Tech companies are being incorporated into deepfake generators, WIRED found. Discord and Apple have started to terminate some developers’ accounts.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2024 21:23:38 +0000
French authorities detained Durov to question him as part of a probe into a wide range of alleged violations—including money laundering and CSAM—but it remains unclear if he will face charges.
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Credit to Author: Darren Loucaides| Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2024 22:01:52 +0000
Durov has reportedly been detained in France over Telegram’s alleged failure to adequately moderate illegal content on the messaging app. His arrest sparked backlash and left some associates asking, what now?
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: The US intelligence community formally blames Iran for Trump campaign hack, aircraft-tracking platform FlightAware says a “configuration error” exposed sensitive user data, and more.
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Credit to Author: Caroline Haskins| Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 19:48:47 +0000
Protesters took to Citi Field Wednesday to raise awareness of the facial recognition systems that have become common at major league sporting venues.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 18:31:13 +0000
Social Security numbers, physical addresses, and more—all available online. After months of confusion, leaked information from a background-check firm underscores the long-term risks of data breaches.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2024 23:00:00 +0000
Security researcher Bill Demirkapi found more than 15,000 hardcoded secrets and 66,000 vulnerable websites—all by searching overlooked data sources.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Hacker Samy Kamkar is debuting his own open source version of a laser microphone—a spy tool that can invisibly pick up the sounds inside your home through a window, and even the text you’re typing.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2024 23:20:00 +0000
From tricking companies into handing over victims’ personal data to offering violence as a service, the online doxing ecosystem is not just still a problem—it’s getting more extreme.
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Credit to Author: Dhruv Mehrotra, Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: Meta pays $1.4 million in a historic privacy settlement, Microsoft blames a cyberattack for a major Azure outage, and an artist creates a face recognition system to reveal your NYPD “coppelganger.”
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