Month: August 2020
YouTube took down more videos than ever last quarter as it relied more on non-human moderators
As it predicted would likely happen, YouTube removed more videos in the second quarter of 2020 than it ever has, as the company leaned more on its algorithm in place of most of its human content moderators. That’s according to the Community Guidelines Enforcement report the company released Tuesday (via…
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Attackers are hosting phishing landing pages on Box to bypass security controls null
Cybercriminals are constantly devising new ways for their phishing pages and other online scams to avoid detection by cloud storage and email security products. As part of its ongoing Blox Tales series, the cloud office security platform Armorblox has released a new blog post detailing a recent credential phishing attempt…
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Alphabet’s Verily is getting into insurance
Verily Life Sciences, the health care company owned by Alphabet, is getting into insurance, the company announced today. Verily is launching a new subsidiary for the effort called Coefficient Insurance Company, which will be backed by the commercial insurance unit of Swiss Re Group. Coefficient plans to offer stop-loss insurance.…
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Vue finally ships its Kickstarter smart glasses and debuts the new $179 Vue Lite
In October 2016, a startup named Vue promised Kickstarter backers a pair of prescription eyeglasses that could double as wireless earbuds, a fitness tracker, and a smartwatch all at once, plus bone conduction speakers so nobody can eavesdrop on your music and calls. Two years and $3 million later, the…
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Hackers could exploit this nasty Safari bug to lift files from your hard drive null
A bug in Apple’s Safari browser could be abused by hackers to leak or steal files from the devices of Mac and iOS users according to a new report from a security researcher. Co-founder of the Polish security firm REDTEAM.PL, Pawel Wylecial first discovered the bug back in April and…
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Android 101: How to stop location tracking
Location tracking can be very handy — it’s convenient when an app can tell you, say, where the near restaurants or gas stations are — but it’s also a privacy issue. Do you want all your wanderings registered by Google? Are you comfortable knowing that Mark Zuckerberg’s minions know where…
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