A Guide to RCS, Why Apple’s Adopting It, and How It Makes Texting Better
If you’ve been keeping up with all the news out of WWDC 2024 this week, you’ll know that Apple is bringing the RCS (Rich Communication…
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Ransomware Attacks Are Getting Worse
Despite years worth of efforts to eliminate the scourge of ransomware targeting schools, hospitals, and critical infrastructure worldwide, experts are warning that the crisis is…
Ukrainian Sailors Are Using Telegram to Avoid Being Tricked Into Smuggling Oil for Russia
This story originally appeared in Hakai Magazine and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A new video appears on the social media network Telegram:…
Medical-Targeted Ransomware Is Breaking Records After Change Healthcare’s $22M Payout
In fact, ransomware attacks on health care targets were on the rise even before the Change Healthcare attack, which crippled the United Healthcare subsidiary’s ability…
US Leaders Dodge Questions About Israel’s Influence Campaign
Federal lawmakers in the US have dodged repeated inquiries over the past week about a covert operation ordered by the Israeli government to artificially boost…
Ransomware Is ‘More Brutal’ Than Ever in 2024
Today, people around the world will head to school, doctor’s appointments, and pharmacies, only to be told, “Sorry, our computer systems are down.” The frequent…
Apple Is Coming for Your Password Manager
That’s not all. Each week, we round up the security and privacy news we didn’t cover in depth ourselves. Click the headlines to read the…
Microsoft Will Switch Off Recall by Default After Security Backlash
When Microsoft named its new Windows feature Recall, the company intended the word to refer to a kind of perfect, AI-enabled memory for your device.…
Microsoft’s Recall Feature Is Even More Hackable Than You Thought
Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella has hailed the company’s new Recall feature, which stores a history of your computer desktop and makes it available to AI…
The Snowflake Attack May Be Turning Into One of the Largest Data Breaches Ever
Since Snowflake acknowledged that accounts had been targeted, it has provided some more information about the incident. Brad Jones, Snowflake’s chief information security officer, said…
The Lords of Silicon Valley Are Thrilled to Present a ‘Handheld Iron Dome’
Drones have changed war. Small, cheap, and deadly robots buzz in the skies high above the world’s battlefields, taking pictures and dropping explosives. They’re hard…
How to Lead an Army of Digital Sleuths in the Age of AI
Eliot Higgins and his 28,000 forensic foot soldiers at Bellingcat have kept a miraculous nose for truth—and a sharp sense of its limits—in Gaza, Ukraine,…