Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 22:25:18 +0000
Image-editing tools from Google and Microsoft contain the “aCropalypse” bug, which can reveal information users intentionally removed.
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Credit to Author: Matt Laslo| Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 11:00:00 +0000
On Thursday, Shou Zi Chew will meet a rare united front in the US Congress against the Chinese-owned social media app that has lawmakers in a tizzy.
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Credit to Author: Reece Rogers| Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 23:31:47 +0000
Doctored images of the former US president went viral on Twitter. These are the telltale signs that they aren’t what they seem.
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Credit to Author: Arian Khameneh| Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 06:00:00 +0000
Amid ongoing protests, the Iranian regime has lost control of its image, pushing it to employ increasingly drastic tactics where everyone loses.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 06:00:00 +0000
Open source intelligence researchers are verifying and debunking opaque claims about who ruptured the gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea.
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Russia’s Kremlin ordered officials to stop using iPhones, apparently over concerns the devices could be vulnerable to Western intelligence agencies, Reuters reports. When surveillance-as-a-service firms sit exposed for brazenly undermining device security, it’s hard to think there isn’t an argument there. But the bigger story isn’t the harm to Apple’s small business in Russia, it’s the threat to digital supply chains it shows.
Credit to Author: Matt Burgess, Andy Greenberg| Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2023 13:00:00 +0000
Plus: A SpaceX supplier ransom, critical vulnerabilities in dozens of Android phones, and more.
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Microsoft has resolved 80 new CVEs this month in addition to four earlier CVEs, bringing the number of security issues addressed in this month’s Patch Tuesday release to 84.
Unfortunately, we have two zero-day flaws in Outlook (CVE-2023-23397) and Windows (CVE-2023-24880) that require a “Patch Now” release requirement for both Windows and Microsoft Office updates. As it was last month, there were no further updates for Microsoft Exchange Server or Adobe Reader. This month the team at Application Readiness has provided a helpful infographic that outlines the risks associated with each of the updates for this cycle.
Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 16:59:24 +0000
WIRED spoke with the coauthor of the Restrict Act, a bipartisan bill to crack down on tech from six “hostile” countries.
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