Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2024 14:00:00 +0000
Plus: Microsoft says attackers accessed employee emails, Walmart fails to stop gift card fraud, “pig butchering” scams fuel violence in Myanmar, and more.
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Credit to Author: Reece Rogers| Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2024 13:00:00 +0000
One of America’s largest internet providers may collect data about your political beliefs, race, and sexual orientation to serve personalized ads.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 14:00:00 +0000
A new report from Chainalysis finds that stablecoins like Tether, tied to the value of the US dollar, were used in the vast majority of crypto-based scam transactions and sanctions evasion in 2023.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Once, drug dealers and money launderers saw cryptocurrency as perfectly untraceable. Then a grad student named Sarah Meiklejohn proved them all wrong—and set the stage for a decade-long crackdown.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess| Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2024 17:00:00 +0000
Patching every device affected by the LeftoverLocals vulnerability—which includes some iPhones, iPads, and Macs—may prove difficult.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
The FTC forced a data broker to stop selling “sensitive location data.” But most companies can avoid such scrutiny by doing the bare minimum, exposing the lack of protections Americans truly have.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess| Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2024 14:00:00 +0000
Plus: Chinese officials tracked people using AirDrop, Stuxnet mole’s identity revealed, AI chatbot hacking, and more.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess| Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2024 14:00:00 +0000
Plus: Chinese officials tracked people using AirDrop, Stuxnet mole’s identity revealed, AI chatbot hacking, and more.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 17:30:00 +0000
The US Securities and Exchange Commission and security firm Mandiant both had their X accounts breached, possibly due to changes to X’s two-factor authentication settings. Here’s how to fix yours.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 17:30:00 +0000
The US Securities and Exchange Commission and security firm Mandiant both had their X accounts breached, possibly due to changes to X’s two-factor authentication settings. Here’s how to fix yours.
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