Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Passkeys are here to replace passwords. When they work, it’s a seamless vision of the future. But don’t ditch your old logins just yet.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2024 14:00:00 +0000
After a slowdown in payments to ransomware gangs in 2022, last year saw total ransom payouts jump to their highest level yet, according to a new report from crypto-tracing firm Chainalysis.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2024 16:53:16 +0000
New EU rules mean WhatsApp and Messenger must be interoperable with other chat apps. Here’s how that will work.
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Credit to Author: eschuman@thecontentfirm.com| Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2024 03:00:00 -0800
The New York Attorney General’s decision to sue Citibank last week for failing to reimburse customers who’d been victimized by fraud raised some interesting issues for business that go beyond just Citibank. Specificially, when should a customer be reimbursed for fraud and at what point do the customer’s own actions come into play?
To be clear, financial institutions have been routinely refusing to reimburse customers who have done nothing wrong. The far trickier issue is when the customer does indeed do something wrong.
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2024 21:48:55 +0000
An indictment against three Americans suggests that at least some of the culprits behind the theft of an FTX crypto fortune may be in custody.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2024 17:30:00 +0000
A loose coalition of anti-censorship voices is working to highlight reports of one Indian company’s hacker-for-hire past—and the legal threats aimed at making them disappear.
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Credit to Author: Dhruv Mehrotra, Andrew Couts| Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2024 01:28:52 +0000
For nearly two years, police have been tracking down the culprit behind a wave of hoax threats. A digital trail took them to the door of a 17-year-old in California.
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Credit to Author: Kate O’Flaherty| Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Plus: Google fixes dozens of Android bugs, Microsoft rolls out nearly 50 patches, Mozilla squashes 15 Firefox flaws, and more.
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In the name of security, the UK government may well have put a cybersecurity target on the nation’s back, with Apple once again warning that proposed changes to the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 are a “serious and direct threat to data security and information privacy.
“We are deeply concerned about the amendments to the Investigatory Powers Bill currently before Parliament, which will put the privacy and security of users at risk,” Apple said in a statement. “This is an unprecedented overreach by the government and, if implemented, the UK new user protections could be secretly vetoed globally, preventing us from ever delivering them to customers.”
Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Aerial drones have changed the war in Ukraine. Now, both Russia’s and Ukraine’s militaries are deploying more unmanned ground robots—and the two are colliding.
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