Month: January 2023
This feature you’ve never heard of might be letting anyone you know snoop on your iPhone
Audio player loading… An iPhone’s ability to back itself up via Wi-Fi to a computer running iTunes has a glaring security hole, meaning anyone with access to that computer could have easy access to a raft of personal data. According to new insights (opens in new tab) from privacy tool…
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Apple is turning on the HomePod Mini’s secret temperature and humidity sensor
Apple debuted an updated HomePod speaker today, and one of the new features is its ability to track temperature and humidity with a built-in sensor. As it turns out, those are things that the smaller, cheaper HomePod Mini can do, too — even the ones that may already be in…
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IBM says quantum computing could be a big risk to the future of encryption
Audio player loading… A report (opens in new tab) from IBM has claimed quantum computing poses an “existential risk” to the current encryption protocols that secure our most sensitive data, like digital transactions. Protocols like public key cryptography (PKC) are said to be vulnerable “once quantum decryption solutions are viable”,…
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What’s on your desk, Tom Warren?
Tom Warren is a senior editor here at The Verge who covers “mostly anything Microsoft, PC, and console gaming.” He recently redid his home workspace and offered to tell us about his new setup; impressed with its practicality and neatness (which is nothing like mine, but let’s pass over that),…
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Ubisoft’s Paris employees have been urged to strike
A French union is urging Ubisoft’s Paris employees to go on strike. Solidaires Informatique, a French union that covers the video game sector, published a call to action tweet on January 17th asking Ubisoft Paris employees to go on strike. The tweet came after Yves Guillemot, CEO of Ubisoft, sent…
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This dangerous malvertising campaign mimicks popular software to steal victim info
Audio player loading… Cybersecurity researchers from HP Wolf Security have warned of several active campaigns looking to deliver different types of malware (opens in new tab) to unsuspecting victims via typosquatted domains and malvertising. The team explained in a blog post (opens in new tab) how they found threat actors…
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