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 operating system makers must store…
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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. Startups and tech companies are…
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 Friday, in a rebuke to…
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 systems prior to the takedown…
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 corruption and we presume that…
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 reports that Russia may have…
The White House Warns Cars Made in China Could Unleash Chaos on US Highways
The US government has launched an investigation into the national security risks posed by foreign-made vehicles with internet connectivity—especially those made in China. At a…
A Pornhub Chatbot Stopped Millions From Searching for Child Abuse Videos
For the past two years, millions of people searching for child abuse videos on Pornhub’s UK website have been interrupted. Each of the 4.4 million…
Biden Executive Order Bans Sale of US Data to China, Russia. Good Luck
US president Joe Biden will sign an executive order on Wednesday aimed at preventing a handful of countries, including China, North Korea, and Russia, from…
Dictators Used Sandvine Tech to Censor the Internet. The US Finally Did Something About It
When the Egyptian government shut down the internet in 2011 to give itself cover to crush a popular protest movement, it was Nora Younis who…
Change Healthcare Ransomware Attack: BlackCat Hackers Quickly Returned After FBI Bust
Six days before Christmas, the US Department of Justice loudly announced a win in the ongoing fight against the scourge of ransomware: An FBI-led, international…
The UK Is GPS-Tagging Thousands of Migrants
Mark Nelson took the call in an immigration detention center—a place that, to him, felt just like prison. It had the same prison windows, the…