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Push notifications could be used to snoop on Google and Apple users, US Senator warns
Governments could be using push notifications to spy on phones, a top US Senator has warned. Google and Apple phones process push notifications through servers belonging to the tech giants, allowing governments to potentially demand access to this data. Messages, breaking news, and other priority updates all generate push-notifications, meaning…
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Green Card Lottery applicants see private data leaked online
Hundreds of thousands of people applying for the US Green Card Lottery have had their personally identifiable data (PII) exposed on the internet, due to sloppy data protection practices by a third party. This is according to a report from researchers at Cybernews, who found the data and notified the…
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Millions of patient scans and health records leaked online
Personally identifiable information (PII), as well as plenty of medical records belonging to millions of patients across the world have been found exposed on the internet and available to anyone who knows where to look. These are the findings of Aplite, which claimed to have found more than 3,800 accessible…
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Australia is building its own top-secret cloud platform
Australia has confirmed it is actively exploring the construction of the nation’s own top secret cloud platform to host intelligence data. In an official announcement, the country’s ’s director-general of national intelligence, Andrew Shearer outlined his hope the initiative will transform the way intelligence agencies operate and enhance collaboration within…
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This crafty iPhone attack makes you think your phone is safe…until it’s hacked
Lockdown Mode, an iPhone feature introduced with iOS 16, is not an antivirus, does not detect malware, and cannot prevent malware from operating. Therefore, hackers can create a fake Lockdown Mode and run malware operating in the background unabated, a report from Jamf Threat Labs has noted. “Apple‘s Lockdown mode…
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Microsoft inches closer to glass storage breakthrough that could finally make ransomware attacks impossible in the data center and hyperscalers — but only Azure customers will benefit from it
Microsoft has released a paper for the widely-anticipated glass-based storage technology it’s backing to replace the conventional technology that’s fitted into the best hard drives and best SSDs out there today. The 16-page academic paper, presented at the 29th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, outlines the principles behind the…
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