reader comments 59 with 46 posters participating Share this story Facebook and its WhatsApp messenger division on Tuesday sued Israel-based spyware maker NSO Group. This is an unprecedented legal action that takes aim at the unregulated industry that sells sophisticated malware services to governments around the world. NSO vigorously denied the allegations. Over an 11-day ..
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reader comments 3 with 3 posters participating Share this story Fancy Bear, the Russian-sponsored hacker group, recently conducted “significant cyberattacks” on 16 national and international sports and anti-doping organizations, and at least some of the offensives were successful, Microsoft said on Monday. The attacks began on September 16, just days ahead of news reports that ..
reader comments 72 with 57 posters participating Share this story A group of Russian scientists was hit by crippling roaming charges after some of the eagles the researchers were studying flew to countries with high roaming charges, including Iran, Turkmenistan, and Pakistan. The birds were outfitted with electronic devices that tracked their locations and sent back ..
Enlarge / Thumbs down. reader comments 78 with 61 posters participating, including story author Share this story If you create a system, someone will try to game it—that’s true of everything from Candyland to the tax code. And so we should not be terribly surprised that Facebook—which is desperately trying to create some kind of ..
Morsa Images | Getty Images reader comments 41 with 33 posters participating Share this story Like much of the Internet, online reviews are often fake. No matter the platform—Amazon, TripAdvisor, Yelp, or another—no matter the subject, where user reviews are public, fakery usually follows. The practice has surged in popularity in recent years as retailers ..
Enlarge / Johannesburg City Hall reader comments 20 with 19 posters participating Share this story Johannesburg, the biggest city in South Africa and the 26th largest city worldwide, has shut down its website, billing and electronic services after being hit by a serious network attack, the second one in three months, municipality officials said. A ..
Enlarge / A Comcast van in Sunnyvale, California, in November 2018. Getty Images | Andrei Stanescu reader comments 123 with 107 posters participating Share this story Comcast has gone on the record to say that it does not track its broadband users’ Web browsing histories, even though the company is lobbying against a Google plan ..
Enlarge / Visitors visit the booth of Douyin (TikTok) at the 2019 smart expo in Hangzhou, China, Oct. 18, 2019. reader comments 60 with 46 posters participating Share this story Trade War! USA v. China View more stories Two senators are pressing for an investigation into TikTok, a short-form video app that’s mostly popular with ..
reader comments 17 with 15 posters participating Share this story A New Jersey man has admitted he installed keyloggers and laptops on the networks of two companies and used them to steal data related to an emerging technology they were using. According to documents filed in US District Court for New Jersey, Ankur Agarwal, 45, ..
Enlarge / An AT&T sign outside a company office in New York City. reader comments 63 with 53 posters participating Share this story A lawsuit against AT&T alleges that the carrier’s employees helped hackers perform SIM-swap attacks on a customer and rob him of $1.8 million worth of cryptocurrency. Plaintiff Seth Shapiro of Torrance, California, ..
