Siri may have sounded benevolent, but was she really recording you without your knowledge or consent and then sharing what she learned? Agence France-Press reports: Apple has agreed to pay US$95 million to settle a lawsuit accusing its digital assistant Siri of listening in on users’ private conversations. The proposed settlement filed in an Oakland, California, […]
Have you ever been approached by someone offering you money for a picture of yourself and your identity documents like your passport? Did you take them up on their offer? Forbes reports: Update, Dec. 26, 2024: This story, originally published Dec. 25 now includes a breakdown of the know your customer attack threat methodology that […]
If you’re still using default passwords or easy-to-brute-force passwords, your days are numbered. Boing Boing reports: Read more at BoingBoing.
The U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has some interesting findings about how many consumers either do not know how to protect their information when they are getting rid of old devices or aren’t concerned enough: New figures reveal that three in 10 UK adults (29%) don’t know how to wipe their personal information from an […]
The U.S. may not have totally kicked China-affiliated Salt Typhoon out of U.S. telecommunication systems, a new publication by CISA explains. Politico reports that CISA and the FBI are advising people to use encrypted communications: Jeff Greene, [executive assistant director of cybersecurity at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency], strongly urged Americans to “use your […]
Specops Software has some useful advice to share and some of it may be surprising, Password security is changing — and updated guidelines from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) reject outdated practices in favor of more effective protections. Don’t have time to read the 35,000-word guidelines? No problem. Here are the six takeaways from NIST’s new […]
No joke — update promptly because these vulnerabilities are being actively exploited. Apple is urging users to promptly apply the iOS 18.1.1, macOS Sequoia 15.1.1, and the older iOS 17.7.2 updates across all devices in the Apple ecosystem. NewsBytes summarizes the issues: In a move to protect its users, Apple has pushed critical security updates for its macOS and iOS platforms, […]
PCWorld reports that in the past week, a number of people have started receiving extortion demands that were sent via emails from the Microsoft 365 Message Center. These emails are demanding users to pay $2,000 worth of cryptocurrency to a specific address, under the threat of stealth nude webcam photos of them being leaked to […]
Hopefully it won’t happen to you, but if it does, know that there’s a way to recover access to your account. Digital Information World reports: There have been a lot of Google users complaining that their Gmail account has been hacked, even if they had 2FA enabled. One of the users said that their Gmail account got hacked […]
If you are curious to see what kinds of nude imagery AI can generate, we won’t judge you, but we would warn you that some hackers are using these fake nude generators to spread malware. 2-Spyware reports: A well-known hacking group called FIN7 is using fake websites that pretend to offer AI-generated nude images. Instead […]
