Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2023 23:13:24 +0000
The mobile operator just suffered at least its fifth data breach since 2018, despite promising to spend a fortune shoring up its systems.
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Credit to Author: Thor Benson| Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2023 15:00:00 +0000
Research shows that relatively few people exist in perfectly sealed-off media bubbles—but they’re still having an outsize impact on US politics.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2023 14:00:00 +0000
New research from Cloudflare shows that connectivity disruptions are becoming a problem around the globe, pointing toward a troubling new normal.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 14:30:01 +0000
Some 1,700 spoofed apps, 120 targeted publishers, 12 billion false ad requests per day—Vastflux is one of the biggest ad frauds ever discovered.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2023 16:00:00 +0000
Animal rights activists have captured the first hidden-camera video from inside a carbon dioxide “stunning chamber” in a US meatpacking plant.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2023 12:00:00 +0000
Cupertino puts privacy first in a lot of its products. But the company still gathers a bunch of your information.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2023 14:00:00 +0000
Plus: Joe Biden’s classified-documents scandal, the end of security support for Windows 7, and more.
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The first Patch Tuesday of the year from Microsoft addresses 98 security vulnerabilities, with 10 classified as critical for Windows. One vulnerability (CVE-2023-21674) in a core section of Windows code is a zero-day that requires immediate attention. And Adobe has returned with a critical update, paired with a few low-profile patches for the Microsoft Edge browser.
We have added the Windows and Adobe updates to our “Patch Now” list, recognizing that this month’s patch deployments will require significant testing and engineering effort. The team at Application Readiness has provided a helpful infographic that outlines the risks associated with each of the updates for this January update cycle.
Credit to Author: Varsha Bansal| Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2023 12:00:00 +0000
Police in the Indian state of Telangana have found a novel way to help people avoid getting swindled online: grassroots education.
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As enterprise adoption of the Apple platform accelerates, it’s important to note that Macs can and sometimes do get hit by ransomware. So it’s good to stay tuned to security concerns on a platform and application level — and take precautions.
With this in mind, extensive insights into Mac ransomware recently published only to be subsequently removed by Microsoft, can help explain these threats. The impact of such attack can be huge – ransomware already costs victims hundreds of billions each year, and no one is immune.