Robot vacuum cleaners hacked to spy on, insult owners
Multiple robot vacuum cleaners in the US were hacked to yell obscenities and insults through the onboard speakers. ABC news was able to confirm reports…
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Modern TVs have “unprecedented capabilities for surveillance and manipulation,” group reveals
Your television is debuting the latest, most captivating program: You. In a report titled “How TV Watches Us: Commercial Surveillance in the Streaming Era,” the…
Internet Archive suffers data breach and DDoS
A non-profit that benefits millions of people has fallen victim to a data breach and a DDoS attack. Internet Archive, most known for its Wayback…
Google Search user interface: A/B testing shows security concerns remain
For the past few days, Google has been A/B testing some subtle visual changes to its user interface for the search results page. You may…
AI girlfriend site breached, user fantasies stolen
A hacker has stolen a massive database of users’ interactions with their sexual partner chatbots, according to 404 Media. The breached service, Muah.ai, describes itself…
MoneyGram confirms customer data breach
Money transfer company MoneyGram has notified its customers of a data breach in which it says certain customers had their personal information taken between September…
Exposing the Facebook funeral livestream scam (Lock and Code S05E21)
This week on the Lock and Code podcast… Online scammers were seen this August stooping to a new low—abusing local funerals to steal from bereaved…
Comcast and Truist Bank customers impacted by debt collector’s breach
A data breach at Financial Business and Consumer Solutions (FBCS), a US debt collection agency, has led to the loss of data of some Comcast…
Large scale Google Ads campaign targets utility software
After what seemed like a long hiatus, we’ve observed threat actors returning to malvertising to drop malware disguised as software downloads. The campaign we identified…
iPhone flaw could read your saved passwords out loud. Update now!
Apple has issued security updates for iOS 18.0.1 and iPadOS 18.0.1 which includes a fix for a bug that could allow a user’s saved passwords…
Not Black Mirror: Meta’s smart glasses used to reveal someone’s identity just by looking at them
Like something out of Black Mirror, two students have demonstrated a way to use smart glasses and facial recognition technology to immediately reveal people’s names,…
Browser Guard now flags data breaches and better protects personal data
Two things are true of data online: It will be collected and, just as easily, it will be lost. But a major update to Malwarebytes…