Apple Kills Its Plan to Scan Your Photos for CSAM. Here’s What’s Next
In August 2021, Apple announced a plan to scan photos that users stored in iCloud for child sexual abuse material...
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Elon Musk’s Twitter Files Are a Feast for Conspiracy Theorists
It has become established rhetoric among the political right that suppressing the story about Hunter Biden’s laptop was nothing short...
Read more →Popular HR and Payroll Company Sequoia Discloses a Data Breach
The human resources, payroll, and benefits management company Sequoia said in disclosures to customers at the beginning of the month...
Read more →Lensa AI and ‘Magic Avatars’: What to Know Before Using the App
Has the stale selfie that’s served as your profile picture gone a little too long without a refresh? You’ve likely seen friends...
Read more →Log4j’s Log4Shell Vulnerability: One Year Later, It’s Still Lurking
Apache had to scramble at the beginning of December 2021 to be ready to release patches for Log4Shell when it...
Read more →Attackers Keep Targeting the US Electric Grid
We at WIRED have written plenty about the threat that cyberattacks pose to power grids worldwide. But lately, the most...
Read more →Why the US Is Primed for Radicalization
“What you find is people are most vulnerable to authoritarianism and extremist impulses when they don’t know what they’re supposed...
Read more →Hackers Planted Files to Frame Indian Priest Who Died in Custody
According to Arsenal, Swamy never touched the files himself. After his devices were seized by Pune City Police, those files...
Read more →Cuba Ransomware Gang Abused Microsoft Certificates to Sign Malware
Less than two weeks ago, the United States Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency and FBI released a joint advisory about...
Read more →A New Lawsuit Accuses Meta of Inflaming Civil War in Ethiopia
On November 3, 2021, Meareg Amare, a professor of chemistry at Bahir Dar University in Ethiopia, was gunned down outside...
Read more →GPS Signals Are Being Disrupted in Russian Cities
“It is not very good at detecting weak jammers or jammers on other frequencies,” Walter explains, adding that an aircraft’s...
Read more →Meta’s Tricky Quest to Protect Your Account
Meta says it applies the concepts of “adversarial design” to build systems with the assumption that attackers will try to...
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