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Ring Will Stop Giving Cops a Free Pass on Warrantless Video Requests
The Amazon-owned home surveillance company says it is shuttering a feature in its Neighbors app that...
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Notorious Spyware Maker NSO Group Is Quietly Plotting a Comeback
NSO Group, creator of the infamous Pegasus spyware, is spending millions on lobbying in Washington while...
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HP CEO Says They Brick Printers That Use Third-Party Ink Because of … Hackers
The company says it wants to protect you from “viruses.” Experts are skeptical.
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Cops Used DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face—and Tried to Run Facial Recognition on It
Police around the US say they're justified to run DNA-generated 3D models of faces through facial...
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Fujitsu Bugs That Sent Innocent People to Prison Were Known ‘From the Start’
Software flaws were allegedly hidden from lawyers of wrongly convicted UK postal workers.
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Security News This Week: US Agencies Urged to Patch Ivanti VPNs That Are Actively Being Hacked
Plus: Microsoft says attackers accessed employee emails, Walmart fails to stop gift card fraud, “pig butchering”...
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‘Stablecoins’ Enabled $40 Billion in Crypto Crime Since 2022
A new report from Chainalysis finds that stablecoins like Tether, tied to the value of the...
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A Flaw in Millions of Apple, AMD, and Qualcomm GPUs Could Expose AI Data
Patching every device affected by the LeftoverLocals vulnerability—which includes some iPhones, iPads, and Macs—may prove difficult.
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A Bloody Pig Mask Is Just Part of a Wild New Criminal Charge Against eBay
Plus: Chinese officials tracked people using AirDrop, Stuxnet mole’s identity revealed, AI chatbot hacking, and more.
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How to Stop Your X Account From Getting Hacked Like the SEC’s
The US Securities and Exchange Commission and security firm Mandiant both had their X accounts breached,...
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Child Abusers Are Getting Better at Using Crypto to Cover Their Tracks
Crypto tracing firm Chainalysis found that sellers of child sexual abuse materials are successfully using “mixers”...
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US School Shooter Emergency Plans Exposed in a Highly Sensitive Database Leak
More than 4 million school records, including safety procedures, student medical files, and court documents, were...
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The SEC’s Official X Account Was ‘Compromised’ and Used to Post Fake Bitcoin News
The US financial regulator says its official @SECGov account was “compromised,” resulting in an “unauthorized” post...
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23andMe Blames Users for Recent Data Breach as It's Hit With Dozens of Lawsuits
Plus: Russia hacks surveillance cameras as new details emerge of its attack on a Ukrainian telecom,...