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People Use Find My iPhone For Long Distance Stalking—And There’s Not Much Apple Can Do

People Use Find My iPhone For Long Distance Stalking—And There’s Not Much Apple Can Do 03/10/2023 at 21:47 By Thomas Brewster, Forbes Staff Find My iPhone and other device-tracking apps have long been used as a tool for domestic abuse, stalking and control of trafficking victims. But so far, there doesn’t appear to be any […]

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How TikTok Has Exposed Celebrities And Politicians’ Closest Personal Contacts

How TikTok Has Exposed Celebrities And Politicians’ Closest Personal Contacts 27/09/2023 at 13:32 By Alexandra S. Levine, Forbes Staff TikTok and ByteDance staff’s easy access to the friend lists of the First Family and public figures has created national security and privacy risks ahead of the election. This article is an excerpt from Forbes –

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As Cato Networks Reaches $3.1 Billion Valuation, Cyber Billionaire Shlomo Kramer Eyes A Third IPO

As Cato Networks Reaches $3.1 Billion Valuation, Cyber Billionaire Shlomo Kramer Eyes A Third IPO 20/09/2023 at 20:32 By Alex Konrad, Forbes Staff The former Check Point and Imperva cofounder raised $238 million to battle Palo Alto Networks in network security ahead of a targeted 2024 IPO. This article is an excerpt from Forbes –

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Do You Speak Droidish? The Pentagon Is Spending Millions On A Language For Drones

Do You Speak Droidish? The Pentagon Is Spending Millions On A Language For Drones 18/09/2023 at 17:34 By Thomas Brewster, Forbes Staff The U.S. military hopes AI drone swarms will be able to work together to carry out offensive missions with little human input. A language called Droidish might be the key. This article is

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Criminals Are Allegedly Using Apple AirTags To Track Illegal Weapons

Criminals Are Allegedly Using Apple AirTags To Track Illegal Weapons 12/09/2023 at 13:32 By Thomas Brewster, Forbes Staff Packages containing rifle parts hidden inside George Foreman Grills also contained Apple’s dime-sized location tracker, investigators say. This article is an excerpt from Forbes – Cybersecurity View Original Source React to this headline:

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Inside Apple’s Impossible War On Child Exploitation

Inside Apple’s Impossible War On Child Exploitation 07/09/2023 at 21:18 By Thomas Brewster, Forbes Staff Apple spent years trying to design a system to stop the spread of child sexual abuse material on iPhones and iCloud. When the company scrapped it, child protection investigators were frustrated. But Apple’s privacy-first approach gained plenty of fans in

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A Fake Signal App Was Planted On Google Play By China-Linked Hackers

A Fake Signal App Was Planted On Google Play By China-Linked Hackers 30/08/2023 at 17:02 By Thomas Brewster, Forbes Staff Hackers who previously targeted Uyghurs evaded Google Play security checks to push a fake Signal app for Android. It uses a never previously-documented method to spy on the encrypted comms tool. This article is an

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The DEA Accidentally Sent $50,000 Of Seized Cryptocurrency To A Scammer

The DEA Accidentally Sent $50,000 Of Seized Cryptocurrency To A Scammer 24/08/2023 at 19:05 By Thomas Brewster, Forbes Staff The Drug Enforcement Agency takes from one criminal enterprise and accidentally gives to another, via a common crypto scam. This article is an excerpt from Forbes – Cybersecurity View Original Source React to this headline:

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Exclusive: DHS Used Clearview AI Facial Recognition In Thousands Of Child Exploitation Cold Cases

Exclusive: DHS Used Clearview AI Facial Recognition In Thousands Of Child Exploitation Cold Cases 07/08/2023 at 23:19 By Thomas Brewster, Forbes Staff DHS is using facial recognition and AI to find child abusers and rescue victims in a major new operation underway to solve thousands of cold cases. This article is an excerpt from Forbes

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Exclusive: Pentagon Investigates ‘Critical Compromise’ Of Air Force Communications Systems

Exclusive: Pentagon Investigates ‘Critical Compromise’ Of Air Force Communications Systems 29/07/2023 at 14:32 By Thomas Brewster, Forbes Staff FBI communications may also have been compromised by an engineer working on Tennessee Air Force base, search warrant reveals. This article is an excerpt from Forbes – Cybersecurity View Original Source React to this headline:

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Warn Aging Parents About More Fake Social Security Calls

Warn Aging Parents About More Fake Social Security Calls 21/07/2023 at 20:32 By Carolyn Rosenblatt, Contributor Scammers pose as government agents, causing fear in elders. They trick folks into giving out their personal financial information. Warn them now. This article is an excerpt from Forbes – Cybersecurity View Original Source React to this headline:

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As Many As 700,000 Turkish TikTok Accounts Were Hacked Before The Country’s Presidential Election

As Many As 700,000 Turkish TikTok Accounts Were Hacked Before The Country’s Presidential Election 18/07/2023 at 22:48 By Emily Baker-White, Forbes Staff A UK security agency warned TikTok about the exploited vulnerability more than a year earlier, but the company chose not to fix it. This article is an excerpt from Forbes – Cybersecurity View

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Google Lacked ‘Manpower’ To Help Feds On Emergency Domestic Terror Threat, FBI Reports

Google Lacked ‘Manpower’ To Help Feds On Emergency Domestic Terror Threat, FBI Reports 18/07/2023 at 17:17 By Thomas Brewster, Forbes Staff Google claimed that it was so overwhelmed with emergency requests from law enforcement last year that it couldn’t help the FBI review livestreams which had allegedly been used to threaten racist murders in St.

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This AI Watches Millions Of Cars Daily And Tells Cops If You’re Driving Like A Criminal

This AI Watches Millions Of Cars Daily And Tells Cops If You’re Driving Like A Criminal 17/07/2023 at 13:31 By Thomas Brewster, Forbes Staff Artificial intelligence is helping American cops look for “suspicious” patterns of movement using license plate databases. This article is an excerpt from Forbes – Cybersecurity View Original Source React to this

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The U.S. Used Potent Global Surveillance Power To Track Russians In $4 Billion Crypto Exchange Investigation

The U.S. Used Potent Global Surveillance Power To Track Russians In $4 Billion Crypto Exchange Investigation 11/07/2023 at 23:03 By Thomas Brewster, Forbes Staff Four men accused of laundering funds from the epic Mt. Gox crypto hack of 2014 were watched for over a year in an unprecedented use of a U.S. surveillance power. This

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