TikTok’s brief shutdown blasted as likely ‘deliberate PR stunt’ to create ‘sense of panic’ 2025-01-19 at 22:39 By Thomas Barrabi TikTok’s decision to shut the app down for barely 12 hours – only to restore access to the China-owned app on Sunday after President-elect Trump chimed in – appeared to be a publicity stunt meant […]
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT crawler can be tricked into DDoSing sites, answering your queries 2025-01-19 at 21:15 By Thomas Claburn The S in LLM stands for Security OpenAI’s ChatGPT crawler appears to be willing to initiate distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on arbitrary websites, a reported vulnerability the tech giant has yet to acknowledge.… This article
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Sad TikTokers get even sadder after learning VPN won’t save them from US ban 2025-01-19 at 19:21 By Isabel Keane “Whoever said a vpn would work after the tiktok ban, you’re goin straight to hell,” one frustrated user wrote. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post
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A Massive Surge in VPN Demand in the USA Caused by TikTok Ban 2025-01-19 at 18:16 View original post at vpnMentor vpnMentor’s Research Team has been following the looming TikTok ban in the United States, as the platform has sparked debates surrounding national security and data privacy concerns. The saga began with ByteDance, the China-based
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Week in review: AWS S3 data encrypted without ransomware, data of 15k Fortinet firewalls leaked 2025-01-19 at 11:06 By Help Net Security Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Attackers are encrypting AWS S3 data without using ransomware A ransomware gang dubbed Codefinger is encrypting data stored
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TikTok Goes Dark in the U.S. as Federal Ban Takes Effect January 19, 2025 2025-01-19 at 08:01 By Popular video-sharing social network TikTok has officially gone dark in the United States, 2025, as a federal ban on the app comes into effect on January 19, 2025. “We regret that a U.S. law banning TikTok will
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TikTok to go dark for 170M US users after app announces services will be ‘temporarily unavailable’ 2025-01-19 at 04:39 By Thomas Barrabi TikTok officially went offline for more than 170 million Americans on Sunday as company officials put the China-owned app’s future in the hands of President-elect Trump. This article is an excerpt from Latest
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New York Files To Freeze $2.2 Million In Stolen Cryptocurrency 2025-01-18 at 22:36 View original post at Safety Detectives New York is freezing more than $2.2 million in cryptocurrency that was stolen as the result of a remote job scam. It is an unprecedented move spearheaded by New York Attorney General Letitia James, who filed
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Hotel Faces A Massive Data Breach 2025-01-18 at 22:00 View original post at Safety Detectives A European hotel chain faced a severe data breach that leaked the personal data of millions of customers. The personal records of more than 25 million hotel customers were found. While it’s impossible to tell exactly which hotel this was,
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Phishing Texts Trick Apple Users Into Disabling Protection 2025-01-18 at 20:47 View original post at vpnMentor Threat actors are using deceptive tactics to bypass Apple iMessage’s phishing protection, tricking users into enabling disabled links in fraudulent messages. These smishing attacks target mobile users with fake texts posing as trusted entities, in an effort to manipulate
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Windows Insiders can now turn on Administrator Protection from settings 2025-01-18 at 16:33 By Richard Speed Security feature widens out to more Windows 11 users, including those at home Microsoft is trying a new way of enabling Administrator Protection in Windows 11. The latest Windows Insider Canary build adds a setting that removes the requirement
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Got a telescope? Bid farewell to ESA’s retiring Milky Way mapper 2025-01-18 at 14:48 By Richard Speed Gaia makes its final science observation The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Milky Way mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than three trillion observations over the past decade.… This article is an
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How Windows got to version 3 – an illustrated history 2025-01-18 at 11:33 By Liam Proven With added manga and snark. What’s not to like? Opinion Windows 1 and 2 flopped almost as badly as OS/2 did. How did Microsoft stage one of the greatest comebacks ever with Windows 3?… This article is an excerpt
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Supreme Court Upholds Law Threatening TikTok Ban in US 2025-01-18 at 10:59 View original post at Safety Detectives The Supreme Court dealt a major setback to TikTok on Friday, upholding a law requiring China-based owner ByteDance to sell the platform by Sunday or face a potential ban in the US. The unsigned decision, with no
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Noyb Accuses TikTok Of Violating GDPR Data Usage Regulations 2025-01-18 at 10:48 View original post at Safety Detectives The European non-profit, noyb, filed six complaints against a range of Chinese companies, accusing them of misusing customer data. These companies, TikTok, Temu, SHEIN, Aliexpress, WeChat, and Xiaomi are being accused of transfering user data back to
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U.S. Sanctions Chinese Cybersecurity Firm Over Treasury Hack Tied to Silk Typhoon 2025-01-18 at 08:20 By The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has imposed sanctions against a Chinese cybersecurity company and a Shanghai-based cyber actor for their alleged links to the Salt Typhoon group and the recent compromise of the federal
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TikTok says it will go dark Sunday unless Biden admin assures service providers they won’t be punished 2025-01-18 at 04:46 By Reuters The statement came hours after the Supreme Court upheld a law banning TikTok in the United States on national security grounds if its Chinese parent company ByteDance does not sell it. This article is an
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CISA: Wow, that election had a lot of foreign trolling. Trump’s Homeland Sec pick: And that’s none of your concern 2025-01-18 at 04:46 By Jessica Lyons Cyber agency too ‘far off mission,’ says incoming boss Kristi Noem America’s lead cybersecurity agency on Friday made one final scream into the impending truth void about election security
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Capital One two-day outage leaves customers in free-fall 2025-01-18 at 01:15 By Iain Thomson Third-party supplier blamed as folks left unable to access funds Capital One is still battling to fix whatever brought down its systems on Wednesday, which has left people unable to access their money.… This article is an excerpt from The Register
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Tech founder pledges to give away half his wealth to ‘share’ the American dream, address inequality 2025-01-18 at 00:33 By Associated Press Entrepreneur Jeff Atwood sees the staggering wealth inequality in the U.S. today as unfair, astonishing, and un-American. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View Original
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