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Android malware poses as top apps to steal data — Google, Instagram, WhatsApp all spoofed
Multiple malicious Android applications have been spotted masquerading as some of the platform’s most popular tools, but anyone installing the imposters might get their login credentials or other, very sensitive information stolen from their device. A report from cybersecurity researchers SonicWall Capture Labs described observing multiple apps pretending to be…
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Top conservative news website hit in data breach — around 26 million Post Millennial users affected
More than 26 million people have had their personal data exposed on the dark web following a cyberattack on Post Millennial and Human Events. Post Millennial and Human Events are conservative media publications – the former for the Canadian market, and the latter for the US, owned by the Human…
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‘A bottle of good wine’ for free: How an NGO protested against website privacy policy pages using a sneak attack freebie that went viral
How often do you read through terms and conditions, EULA’s and privacy policies? Although we know we should scour the fine print, it’s something few of us ever bother to do, and certainly not fully. Non-profit organization Tax Policy Associates wanted to prove how pointless these documents are, and so…
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Modems used in many industrial IoT sectors could be easily hacked
Modems used in many industrial Internet of Things (IoT) devices can easily be hacked, allowing threat actors root access, remotely and without authentication. The result could be highly disruptive, as many industries rely on IoT devices and other internet-connected sensors for proper operations of entire facilities. A report from cybersecurity…
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‘The Entire History of You’: How a lone developer created free app that records everything you do on your PC — and allows you to rewind and search for anything in a weird homage to an episode of Black Mirror
We’ve all been there: you remember reading or watching something on your PC, but all attempts to locate the item again prove futile. Repeating past searches yields nothing, and your browser history is of no use either. You’re not sure where you saw the item, and eventually you begin to…
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Microsoft launches generative AI model designed exclusively for US intelligence services — air-gapped system for spies aims to avoid potential security leaks
AI technology has already proved instrumental in transforming and disrupting a wide range of industries, and really it’s just getting started. Microsoft, which has gone “all-in” on artificial intelligence, has developed a generative AI model designed expressly for U.S. intelligence services. Unlike other AI platforms, such as Microsoft’s own Copilot,…
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