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Alethe Denis exposes tricks that made you fall for that return-to-office survey Interview  A hacker walked into a "very big city" building on a Wednesday morning with no keys to any doors or elevators, determined to steal sensitive data by breaking into both the physical space and the corporate Wi-Fi network.…

Researchers from ETH Zurich have devised a machine learning program that can solve Google reCAPTCHA v2 image recognition challenges with perfect accuracy. Although these often-maligned tests are becoming obsolete, they still play an important role in internet security.Read Entire Article

If your memory of slot cars as a childhood toy is of lightweight controllers with wire-wound rheostats inside, then you’re many years behind the state of the art when it …read more

It’s a well-known secret that inkjet ink is being kept at artificially high prices, which is why many opt to forego ‘genuine’ manufacturer cartridges and get third-party ones instead. Many …read more

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    See that little circle? That’s a camera. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge

All around Meta’s Menlo Park campus, cameras stared at me. I’m not talking about security cameras or my fellow reporters’ DSLRs. I’m not even talking about smartphones. I mean Ray-Ban and Meta’s smart glasses, which Meta hopes we’ll all — one day, in some form — wear. I visited Meta for this year’s Connect conference, where just about every hardware product involved cameras. They’re on the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses that got a software update, the new Quest 3S virtual reality headset, and Meta’s prototype Orion AR glasses. Orion is what Meta calls a “time machine”: a functioning example of what full-fledged AR could look like, years before it will be consumer-ready. But on Meta’s campus, at least, the Ray-Bans were already everywhere. It...

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LinkedIn’s AI-training kerfuffle is a stark reminder that telling users they can “opt out” of something is mostly meaningless. But first...

A few days ago the source code for the popular Winamp music player was released into the world, with as we reported at the time, a licence that left a …read more

Company failed to follow one of the most sacrosanct rules for password storage.

AI screengrab service to be opt-in, features encryption, biometrics, enclaves, more Microsoft has revised the Recall feature for its Copilot+ PCs and insists that the self-surveillance system is secure.…

You may have arrived at this post because you received an email with an attached PDF from a purported hacker who is demanding payment or else they will send compromising information—such as pictures sexual in nature—to all your friends and family. You’re searching for what to do in this frightening situation, and how to respond to an apparently personalized threat that even includes your actual “LastNameFirstName.pdf” and a picture of your house. Don’t panic. Contrary to the claims in your email, you probably haven't been hacked (or at least, that's not what prompted that email). This is merely a new variation on an old scam —actually, a whole category of scams called "sextortion." This is a type of online phishing that is targeting people around the world and preying on digital-age fears. It generally uses publicly available information or information from data breaches, not information obtained from hacking the recipients of the emails specifically, and therefore it is very unlikely the sender has any "incriminating" photos or has actually hacked your accounts or devices. They begin the emails showing you your address, full name, and possibly a picture of your house.  We’ll talk about a few steps to take to protect yourself, but the first and foremost piece of advice we have: do not pay the ransom. We have pasted an example of this email scam at the bottom of this post. The general gist is that a hacker claims to have compromised your computer and says[...]

Adversaries can exploit CVE-2024-6769 to jump from regular to admin access without triggering UAC, but Microsoft says it's not really a vulnerability.

Quick fix: Remove cups-browsed, block UDP port 631 Updated  After days of waiting and anticipation, what was billed as one or more critical unauthenticated remote-code execution vulnerabilities in all Linux systems was today finally revealed.…

Ian King / Bloomberg: Source: Arm approached Intel about potentially buying Intel's product group, but not factory operations; Intel declined, saying the division isn't for sale  —  - Intel's rapid decline has spurred takeover speculation  — Arm is interested in product group, not factory operations

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Google has revealed that its transition to memory-safe languages such as Rust as part of its secure-by-design approach has led to the percentage of memory-safe vulnerabilities discovered in Android dropping from 76% to 24% over a period of six years. The tech giant said focusing on Safe Coding for new features not only reduces the overall security risk of a codebase, but also makes the switch

Arm Holdings Plc approached Intel Corp. about potentially buying the ailing chipmaker’s product division, only to be told that the business isn’t for sale, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.

The European privacy rights organization noyb has filed a formal complaint against Mozilla for enabling a new feature in its Firefox browser that allegedly tracks users without their consent. The feature in question, called Privacy-Preserving Attribution (PPA), is designed to measure the effectiveness of online advertisements while minimizing data collection, but noyb claims it violates … The post Mozilla Faces GDPR Complaint Over Firefox Tracking Users Without Consent appeared first on RestorePrivacy.

What happens when a small business can’t afford a ransomware payment? But first…

A group of security researchers discovered critical flaws in Kia's dealer portal that could let hackers locate and steal millions of Kia cars made after 2013 using just the targeted vehicle's license plate. [...]

A background check service called MC2 Data has leaked information of over 100 million US citizens in an unprotected online database.

Meta announced that it's ending its direct peering relationship with Deutsche Telekom following a court's ruling earlier this year that would oblige the tech firm to pay the telecom €20,000,000 to continue using its network. [...]

Emails, documents, and other untrusted content can plant malicious memories.