Advances in artificial intelligence and increasing regulatory pressures are creating new challenges for private messaging apps, with experts warning that user privacy could be at risk.
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The scammer sent a small "dust" amount to the victim's transaction history, causing the victim to copy the address and send $50M to the scammer's address.
The Pentagon, Treasury Department, DHS, and a variety of other US government agencies have begun relying on a firm launched by former Israeli military intelligence operatives to consolidate and protect their data.
The notorious hacking group "ShinyHunters" claims to have stolen private user data from web porn giant Pornhub and is demanding a ransom payment in Bitcoin to prevent the publication of the potentially embarrassing data.
The average home user does not care that bitlocker is now automatically enabled on a new Windows 11 computer. Even if you're tech savvy, you will accept this as normal because Microsoft turned it on by default.
...taking X, ChatGPT, Spotify, Facebook, Telegram, this site, and even (the irony) DownDetector. Lots of people on X are asking why the internet is so big, yet so hopelessly concentrated. (e.g. AWS, Cloudflare, Google Cloud). This augurs well for Di
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With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data--including thousands of T-Mobile users' calls and texts and even US military communications--sent by satellites unencrypted.
...in the New York-area that were capable of crippling telecom systems and carrying out anonymous telephonic attacks, disrupting the threat before world leaders arrived for the UN General Assembly.
The UK government has agreed to drop its request that Apple provide it with backdoor access to user data, U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said on Monday.
This just got confirmed (again) by Harness, a software company, that says it discovered a "flaw" in an (unnamed) automaker's "dealership portal" that "exposed the private information and vehicle data of its customers" that "could have
Last month the Tea App exposed 60 GB of personal data (including the government ID of users). Now a clone "TeaOnHer" App did the exact same thing. The future is stupid.