Airbnb Bans All Indoor Security Cameras
Airbnb will soon ban hosts from watching their guests with indoor security cameras, as the company is reversing course on...
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Google Is Getting Thousands of Deepfake Porn Complaints
Each method is weaponized—almost always against women—to degrade, harass, or cause shame, among other harms. Julie Inman Grant, Australia’s e-safety...
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Security News This Week: Russian Hackers Stole Microsoft Source Code—and the Attack Isn’t Over
For years, Registered Agents Inc.—a secretive company whose business is setting up other businesses—has registered thousands of companies to people...
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Meta Abandons Hacking Victims, Draining Law Enforcement Resources, Officials Say
Forty-one state attorneys general penned a letter to Meta’s top attorney on Wednesday saying complaints are skyrocketing across the United...
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Inside Registered Agents Inc., the Shadowy Firm Pushing the Limits of Business Privacy
Since 2008, Dan Keen has grown his business from a small company serving customers in the Pacific Northwest to a...
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Hackers Behind the Change Healthcare Ransomware Attack Just Received a $22 Million Payment
The ransomware attack targeting medical firm Change Healthcare has been one of the most disruptive in years, crippling pharmacies across...
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The Privacy Danger Lurking in Push Notifications
To send those notifications that awaken a device and appear on its screen without a user’s interaction, apps and smartphone...
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Here Come the AI Worms
As generative AI systems like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini become more advanced, they are increasingly being put to work....
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The UK’s GPS Tagging of Migrants Has Been Ruled Illegal
The way the UK government has been tagging migrants with GPS trackers is illegal, the country’s privacy regulator ruled on...
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The Mysterious Case of the Missing Trump Trial Ransomware Leak
The LockBit hackers also posted some convincing sample documents that appeared to have been stolen from the Fulton County court...
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Here Are the Google and Microsoft Security Updates You Need Right Now
CVE-2024-1553 and CVE-2024-1557 are memory-safety bugs rated as having a high severity. “Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory...
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Russia Attacked Ukraine’s Power Grid at Least 66 Times to ‘Freeze It Into Submission’
Last week marked the second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a conflict that has been marked by multiple...
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