Apple may have to open its walled garden to outside app stores
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) ruled that both Google and Apple have a “strategic market status.” Basically, they have a monopoly over their…
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Meta boosts scam protection on WhatsApp and Messenger
Vulnerable Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp users are getting more protection thanks to a move from the applications’ owner, Meta. The company has announced more safeguards…
Over 100 Chrome extensions break WhatsApp’s anti-spam rules
Recent research by Socket’s Threat Research Team uncovered a massive, coordinated campaign flooding the Chrome Web Store with 131 spamware extensions. These add-ons hijack WhatsApp…
Zero-click Dolby audio bug lets attackers run code on Android and Windows devices
Researchers from Google’s Project Zero discovered a medium-severity remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability that affects multiple platforms, including Android (Samsung and Pixel devices) and Windows. Remote code execution means an…
Windows update breaks USB support in recovery mode
We usually tell our faithful readers to install updates as soon as possible, but this time there’s an exception. Microsoft’s October security update has disabled…
You can poison AI with just 250 dodgy documents
Researchers have shown how you can corrupt an AI and make it talk gibberish by tampering with just 250 documents. The attack, which involves poisoning…
Home Depot Halloween phish gives users a fright, not a freebie
We received a timely phishing email pretending to come from Home Depot. It claimed we’d won a Gorilla Carts dump cart (that’s a sort of…
What does Google know about me? (Lock and Code S06E21)
This week on the Lock and Code podcast… Google is everywhere in our lives. It’s reach into our data extends just as far. After investigating…
What does Google know about me? (Lock and Code S06E21)
This week on the Lock and Code podcast… Google is everywhere in our lives. It’s reach into our data extends just as far. After investigating…
Chinese gangs made over $1 billion targeting Americans with scam texts
We regularly warn our readers about new scams and phishing texts. Almost everyone gets pestered with these messages. But where are all these scam texts…
Prosper data breach puts 17 million people at risk of identity theft
Peer-to-peer lending marketplace Prosper detected unauthorized activity on their systems on September 2, 2025. It published an FAQ page later that month to address the…
Video call app Huddle01 exposed 600K+ user logs
The Cybernews research team found that video call app Huddle01 exposed email addresses, real names, and other identifiers through an unprotected Kafka broker. Think of…