How to Tell When Your Phone Will Stop Getting Security Updates
Credit to Author: David Nield| Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2023 11:00:00 +0000
Every smartphone has an expiration date. Here’s when yours will probably come.
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Chinese Hackers Are Hiding in Routers in the US and Japan
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess| Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2023 13:00:00 +0000
Plus: Stolen US State Department emails, $20 million zero-day flaws, and controversy over the EU’s message-scanning law.
Read moreApple, Microsoft, and Google Just Fixed Multiple Zero-Day Flaws
Credit to Author: Kate O’Flaherty| Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2023 11:00:00 +0000
Plus: Mozilla patches 10 Firefox bugs, Cisco fixes a vulnerability with a rare maximum severity score, and SAP releases updates to stamp out three highly critical flaws.
Read moreUS Justice Department Urged to Investigate Gunshot Detector Purchases
Credit to Author: Dell Cameron, Dhruv Mehrotra| Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2023 16:15:06 +0000
A civil liberties group has asked the DOJ to investigate deployment of the ShotSpotter gunfire-detection system, which research shows is often installed in predominantly Black neighborhoods.
Read moreSoundThinking, Maker of ShotSpotter, Is Buying Parts of PredPol Creator Geolitica
Credit to Author: Dhruv Mehrotra, Dell Cameron| Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2023 17:57:43 +0000
SoundThinking is purchasing parts of Geolitica, the company that created PredPol. Experts say the acquisition marks a new era of companies dictating how police operate.
Read moreRisk of a US Government Shutdown Is Fueled by Very Online Republicans
Credit to Author: Matt Laslo| Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2023 17:43:41 +0000
Egged on by a far-reaching conservative media ecosystem, right-wing hardliners are forcing Washington to bend to their reality as the federal government careens toward a possible shutdown.
Read moreSatellite Images Show the Devastating Cost of Sudan’s Aerial War
Credit to Author: Vittoria Elliott| Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2023 19:55:00 +0000
As civil conflict continues in and above the streets of Khartoum, satellite images from the Conflict Observatory at Yale University have captured the catastrophic damage.
Read moreA Tricky New Way to Sneak Past Repressive Internet Censorship
Credit to Author: Justin Ling| Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2023 11:00:00 +0000
With the number of internet blackouts on the rise, cybersecurity firm eQualitie figured out how to hide censored online news in satellite TV signals.
Read moreYour Boss’s Spyware Could Train AI to Replace You
Credit to Author: Thor Benson| Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2023 11:00:00 +0000
Corporations are using software to monitor employees on a large scale. Some experts fear the data these tools collect could be used to automate people out of their jobs.
Read moreThe Shocking Data on Kia and Hyundai Thefts in the US
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2023 13:00:00 +0000
Plus: MGM hackers hit more than just casinos, Microsoft researchers accidentally leak terabytes of data, and China goes on the PR offensive over cyberespionage.
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