Credit to Author: Rob Lefferts| Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 17:00:00 +0000
Gartner has named Microsoft a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Protection Platforms.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2024 17:00:40 +0000
The rapper and social media personality Punchmade Dev is perhaps best known for his flashy videos singing the praises of a cybercrime lifestyle. With memorable hits such as “Internet Swiping” and “Million Dollar Criminal” earning millions of views, Punchmade has leveraged his considerable following to peddle tutorials on how to commit financial crimes online. But until recently, there wasn’t much to support a conclusion that Punchmade was actually doing the cybercrime things he promotes in his songs.
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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.
Read moreTwo vulnerabilities in Ivanti Connect Secure and Ivanti Policy Secure Gateways are subject to massive exploitation despite an available workaround.
Read moreAI is being used by shock call spammers to emulate the voice of a loved one claiming to be involved in an accident.
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In many ways, privacy has become a bit of a conceptual buzzword — something that, similar to the AI craze of the moment, is as much about marketing a broad idea to people as it is anything specific or practical.
But all opportunistic hype aside, privacy absolutely does matter — once you dig in past that silly outer layer and actually think about what, exactly, you want to achieve. And here in the land o’ Android, you’ve got plenty o’ potential-packed possibilities to ponder.
Today, I want to draw your attention to one area where a teensy bit of effort can give you an awful lot of added privacy advantages — and that’s in the ever-evolving domain of web browsing on your favorite Android gadget.
OpenAI is hoping to alleviate concerns about its technology’s influence on elections, as more than a third of the world’s population is gearing up for voting this year. Among the countries where elections are scheduled are the United States, Pakistan, India, South Africa, and the European Parliament.
“We want to make sure that our AI systems are built, deployed, and used safely. Like any new technology, these tools come with benefits and challenges,” OpenAI wrote Monday in a blog post. “They are also unprecedented, and we will keep evolving our approach as we learn more about how our tools are used.”
This week on the Lock and Code podcast, we tell the true story of a virtual kidnapping scam from December of last year.
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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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