25 May

So the FBI ‘persistently’ abused its snoop powers. What’s to worry about?

Register Kettle If there’s one thing that’s more all the rage these days than this AI hype, it’s warrantless spying by the Feds. Just kidding,

Author rabih
25 May

So the FBI only abused snoop powers around 280,000 times. What’s to worry about?

Register Kettle If there’s one thing that’s more all the rage these days than this AI hype, it’s warrantless spying by the Feds. Just kidding,

Author rabih
25 May

Facial recog system used by Met Police shows racial bias at low thresholds

The UK Parliament has heard that a facial recognition system used by the Metropolitan police during the King’s Coronation can exhibit racial bias at certain

Author rabih
25 May

Why Are Some Countries Banning TikTok?

Waiting in the checkout line. Waiting to fall asleep. Waiting for your boring work call to finally end.  When you find yourself in these situations,

Author rabih
25 May

Five Eyes and Microsoft accuse China of attacking US infrastructure again

China has attacked critical infrastructure organizations in the US using a “living off the land” attack that hides offensive action among everyday Windows admin activity.

Author rabih
24 May

This legit Android app turned into audio-snooping malware – and Google missed it

Google Play has been caught with its cybersecurity pants down yet again after a once-legit Android screen-and-audio recorder app was updated to include malicious code.

Author rabih
24 May

Mobile Spyware—How You Can Keep Stalkers Off Your Phone

When you wind up with mobile spyware, you may wind up with a stalker on your phone.  In its most malicious forms, mobile spyware can

Author rabih
24 May

Philly Inquirer says Cuba ransomware gang’s data leak claims are fake news

The Philadelphia Inquirer has punched back at the Cuba ransomware gang after the criminals leaked what they said were files stolen from the newspaper. On

Author rabih
24 May

Digital security for the self‑employed: Staying safe without an IT team to help

Nobody wants to spend their time dealing with the fallout of a security incident instead of building up their business Approximately one in seven people

Author rabih
24 May

IT security analyst admits hijacking cyber attack to pocket ransom payments

A former IT security analyst at Oxford Biomedica has admitted, five years after the fact, to turning to the dark side – by hijacking a

Author rabih
24 May

US bans North Korean outsourcer and its feisty freelancers

When businesses go shopping for IT services, North Korea-controlled companies probably struggle to make it into many lists. Their prospects of picking up your work

Author rabih
23 May

Apria Healthcare says potentially 2M people caught up in IT security breach

Personal and financial data describing almost 1.9 million Apria Healthcare patients and employees may have been accessed by crooks who breached the company’s networks over

Author rabih
23 May

Dish confirms 300,000 people’s data was exposed in February’s attack

Dish Network has admitted that a February cybersecurity incident and associated multi-day outage led to the extraction of data on nearly 300,000 people, while also

Author rabih
23 May

TikTok to let Oracle view source code, algorithm and content-moderation

TikTok, the social video platform used by around 150 million people in the US, is set to hand access to its source code, algorithm and

Author rabih
23 May

Ads for lucrative jobs in Asia fail to mention chance of slavery as crypto-scammer

The FBI has issued a warning about fake job ads that recruit workers into forced labor operations in Southeast Asia – some of which enslave

Author rabih
23 May

China hasn’t told Micron why it failed security review, or what its ban means

US memory-maker Micron has no idea why Chinese authorities have decided its products represent a security risk, or which customers it’s not allowed to sell

Author rabih
23 May

Uncle Sam strangles criminals’ cashflow by reining in money mules

Uncle Sam announced its commenced over 4,000 legal actions in three months — mostly harshly worded letters — to rein in “money mules” involved in

Author rabih
22 May

Rigorous dev courageously lied about exec’s NSFW printouts – and survived long enough to quit with dignity

Who, Me? Wait? What? Is it Monday already? Not to fear, gentle readerfolk, for Uncle Reg is here with another instalment of Who, Me? –

Author rabih
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