Malware disguised as a messaging app has been found on twelve applications, six of which were available on Google Play between April and September 2023. The malicious software, known as VarajSpy, is referred to as a remote access trojan. This means that the cyber-attacker is able to access your device...
Microsoft Edge is increasingly aggressively snatching your open tabs from Google Chrome in an attempt to get you to switch. The new Microsoft Edge has shown to be a good browser since its release in 2020, but Microsoft has never stopped aggressively pushing Edge over competing browsers, mainly Chrome. Google...
Although the video-sharing app TikTok claims to have walled off American data, staff members claim that data is occasionally shared with its parent company in China. According to TikTok, the company has invested $1.5 billion in developing an effort to persuade American lawmakers that the well-known video-sharing app is secure. In...
Fitbit users claim their devices have been rendered unusable following a software update issued in December 2023. The Google-owned subsidiary rolled out an update to its Fitbit Charge 5 device, which was supposed to enhance features and fix bugs, but instead, a growing list of problems has surfaced. As reported...
Users of crypto wallet provider Trezor have been targeted with an email-based phishing attack, with scammers trying to impersonate Trezor. Malicious emails impersonating Trezor have been aimed at users, pressuring them to upgrade their 'network' or risk losing their funds. Trevor is mainly used to easily use, store, and protect...
Twelve terabytes of data and a staggering 26 billion records comprise the historic data leak from sites like X and Linkedin. Data researcher Bob Dyachenko worked alongside Cybernews.com to uncover the ‘mother of all breaches’ (MOAB). The breach is a compilation of existing breaches that have been gathered together on...
Meta is set to allow EU users of its Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger apps to unlink their accounts due to an upcoming change in legislation. Specifically, the Digital Markets Act (DMA) will mean the world's biggest social media provider must comply with the new rules, impacting users in the European...
Customers of Comcast's internet provider, Xfinity, are being automatically opted in, which allows the company to retain sensitive personal data. According to the website, the US telecoms giant could keep data about “race, ethnicity, political affiliations, or philosophical beliefs.” Sensitive data also covers characteristics of protected classifications under California or...
In a Breaking Analysis, experts from theCUBE Collective and the data gang convened for their third yearly data predictions power panel to examine trends and prospects in the data sector. The panel included Sanjeev Mohan of Sanjmo, Tony Baer of dbInsight, IDC's Carl Olofson, Dave Menninger from Ventana Research, now...
TikTok, the popular social media platform, is facing scrutiny over its safeguards for child users. A recent investigation by The Guardian revealed that moderators were instructed to allow users under the age of 13 to remain on the platform if their accounts claimed to be overseen by parents. This practice...
Governments around the world, including allies of the United States, have been secretly surveilling smartphone users by exploiting push notifications from popular apps, according to information revealed this week by U.S. Senator Ron Wyden. In a letter sent Wednesday to the Department of Justice, Senator Wyden warned that unidentified foreign...
ByteDance, the Chinese tech giant behind TikTok, is working on a new platform to enable users to create their own artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots. It's a major play from the $220bn company as it seeks to elbow its way into the fiercely competitive generative AI space, reports The South China...
A new research paper alleges that large language models may be inadvertently exposing significant portions of their training data through a technique the researchers call "extractable memorization." The paper details how the researchers developed methods to extract up to gigabytes worth of verbatim text from the training sets of several...
Are files disappearing from your Google Drive? If so, you may be one of the unlucky users affected by a worrying bug. Google Drive is one of the world's most popular cloud-based file storage and synchronization services. It allows you to store your files on Google's servers, making them accessible...
Apple has extended the complimentary usage period for Emergency SOS satellite capabilities for iPhone 14 users. Initially, customers received a two-year free period upon activating their devices, set to expire next year. Now, Apple has decided to extend the Emergency SOS satellite service by an additional year, giving iPhone 14...
Proton, the Swiss privacy startup known for its encrypted email service ProtonMail, today launched its end-to-end encrypted cloud storage solution Proton Drive for Mac users. With the release of the Proton Drive macOS app, Mac users can now sync files securely between their devices and the cloud. A privacy-first service...
With a tap any Android or Apple phone user will be able to talk to ChatGPT. OpenAI, the company behind the hugely popular AI chatbot, introduced voice chats on ChatGPT for Android and iOS in September, but initially only for its Plus and Enterprise subscribers. Now, co-founder Greg Brockman has...
The Idaho National Laboratory (INL), a key U.S. nuclear research facility, suffered a data breach exposing the personal information of thousands of employees, the lab confirmed this week. The attack was carried out by a hacktivist group calling itself "SiegedSec." SiegedSec announced the hack on Monday via hacking forums and...
With news of data breaches and scandals around the misuse of people’s data becoming a worrying norm, one company is working to put data ownership back in the hands of individuals and organizations. Akord is a web3 platform offering digital vaults for storage and collaboration. For the first time, both...
LockBit, a notorious ransomware group, has reportedly released all data stolen from Boeing in a recent ransomware attack. This follows Boeing's apparent refusal to meet the ransomware group's demands. The leaked data, amounting to approximately 50GB, was made public early Friday, consisting of compressed archives and backup files related to...
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