Credit to Author: David Gilbert| Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2023 15:53:47 +0000
People who have turned to X for breaking news about the Israel-Hamas conflict are being hit with old videos, fake photos, and video game footage at a level researchers have never seen.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2023 10:00:00 +0000
The same chaotic day FTX declared bankruptcy, someone began stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from its coffers. A WIRED investigation reveals the company’s “very crazy night” trying to stop them.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2023 19:32:01 +0000
Hundreds dead, thousands wounded—Hamas’ surprise attack on Israel shows the limits of even the most advanced and invasive surveillance dragnets as full-scale war erupts.
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Credit to Author: Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2023 13:00:00 +0000
Plus: Sony confirms a breach of its networks, US federal agents get caught illegally using phone location data, and more.
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Credit to Author: David Gilbert| Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2023 11:00:00 +0000
A “friendlier” front for racist extremism has spread rapidly across the US in recent months, as active club channels network on Telegram’s encrypted messaging app.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2023 21:53:37 +0000
At least a million data points from 23andMe accounts appear to have been exposed on BreachForums. While the scale of the campaign is unknown, 23andMe says it’s working to verify the data.
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The big problem with privacy is that once you relinquish some of it, you never get it back. What makes it worse is when those who are supposed to protect your rights choose to undermine them. When they do so, they eat away at the thin protections we should all enjoy in the digital age.
These are some of the reasons to be so concerned to learn from a newly released US Department of Homeland Security report that multiple US government agencies illegally used smartphone location data, breaching privacy regulations as they did. To do this, they purchased smartphone location data, including Advertising Identifiers (AdIDs) from data brokers that had been harvested from a wide range of apps.
A contact recently told me that Apple handles thousands of inquiries from people who have forgotten or misplaced their Apple ID logins every day. That’s probably why Apple recently made it easier to access your Apple ID using any known email address.
But Apple reps are also inundated with requests related to third-party apps over which they have no control. As the EU looks to force Apple into allowing apps from alternative app stores onto its devices, a practice known as sideloading, the user experience with Apple devices — and the flood of inquiries and complaints — is about to get much, much worse.
Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2023 11:00:00 +0000
Location-enabled tech designed to make our lives easier is often exploited by domestic abusers. Refuge, a UK nonprofit, helps women to leave abusive relationships, secure their devices, and stay safe.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2023 10:00:00 +0000
New research has found that some streaming devices and dozens of Android and iOS apps are secretly being used for fraud and other cybercrime.
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