July 23, 2024

FTC opens investigation into ‘surveillance pricing’ that gouges consumers 2024-07-23 at 21:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo Ever shop in an incognito window to avoid paying more? This one’s for you The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched an investigation into “surveillance pricing,” a phenomenon likely familiar to anyone who’s bought something in an incognito browser

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Administrators have update lessons to learn from the CrowdStrike outage 2024-07-23 at 20:31 By Richard Speed How could this happen to us? We were supposed to be two versions behind? If administrators have learned anything from the CrowdStrike chaos, it’s to understand exactly what delayed updates mean – or don’t mean – in the anti-malware

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Sam Altman’s basic income experiment finds that money can indeed buy happiness 2024-07-23 at 20:01 By Brandon Vigliarolo But not necessarily health The results of the largest universal basic income (UBI) trial program in the United States – this one backed by billionaire Sam Altman, no less – are in and entirely unsurprising.… This article

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US Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigns 2024-07-23 at 19:46 By Kimberly Cheatle resigns following the recent assassination attempt against former president Donald Trump.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Unchecked AI threatens consumer privacy — Regulation is crucial 2024-07-23 at 19:16 By As AI becomes increasingly embedded into society, there is a pressing need for regulatory guardrails and governance policies to protect consumer privacy and data rights. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to

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Kamala Harris has a long history with Silicon Valley that could help – or hurt 2024-07-23 at 19:01 By Brandon Vigliarolo The presumptive Democratic nominee has gone back and forth with Big Tech Analysis  With Joe Biden out of the US Presidential race, his VP Kamala Harris is poised to become the Democratic Party’s nominee,

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Cybercrooks spell trouble with typosquatting domains amid CrowdStrike crisis 2024-07-23 at 18:31 By Connor Jones Latest trend follows various malware campaigns that began just hours after IT calamity Thousands of typosquatting domains are now registered to exploit the desperation of IT admins still struggling to recover from last week’s CrowdStrike outage, researchers say.… This article

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Alphabet’s reported $23B bet on Wiz fizzles out 2024-07-23 at 17:46 By Richard Speed Cybersecurity outfit to go its own way to IPO and $1B ARR On the day of Alphabet’s Q2 earnings call, cybersecurity firm Wiz has walked from a $23 billion takeover bid by Google’s parent company.… This article is an excerpt from

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Failure to follow proper procedures caused US-wide AT&T outage, FCC says 2024-07-23 at 17:01 By Dan Robinson America’s second largest wireless carrier taking steps to prevent a repeat of 12-hour downtime in February An AT&T cellular outage lasting more than 12 hours that prevented US customers from accessing services including 911 was caused by misconfigured

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Chinese Hackers Target Taiwan and US NGO with MgBot Malware 2024-07-23 at 16:31 By Organizations in Taiwan and a U.S. non-governmental organization (NGO) based in China have been targeted by a Beijing-affiliated state-sponsored hacking group called Daggerfly using an upgraded set of malware tools. The campaign is a sign that the group “also engages in

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Now as many as 10,000 SAP jobs to be hit by restructure 2024-07-23 at 16:16 By Lindsay Clark Revenue and underlying profit please markets in Q2 as German software giant retains focus on costs SAP has expanded the number of jobs affected by its restructuring program by up to 20 percent after generating higher revenue

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