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…
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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,…
An American Company Enabled a North Korean Scam That Raised Money for WMDs
For years, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been unraveling what it asserts is a scam perpetrated by agents of North Korea, which used fake…
The Age of the Drone Police Is Here
Both individuals asked not to be named, citing privacy concerns. The west side, on the other hand, is densely populated, and residents tend to be…
TikTok Hack Targets ‘High-Profile’ Users via DMs
TikTok says it’s currently taking steps to mitigate a cyberattack that’s targeting a number of high-profile users through direct messages, in an attempt to hijack…
This Hacker Tool Extracts All the Data Collected by Windows’ New Recall AI
Hagenah says an attacker could get a huge amount of information about their target, including insights into their emails, personal conversations, and any sensitive information…