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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FCC to telcos: Did you know you must by law secure your networks from foreign spies? 2025-01-18 at 00:18 By Jessica Lyons Plus: Uncle Sam is cross with this one Chinese biz over Salt Typhoon mega-snooping Decades-old legislation requiring American telcos to lock down their systems to prevent foreign snoops from intercepting communications isn’t mere
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Bumble shares fall after founder Whitney Wolfe Herd announces impending return as CEO 2025-01-17 at 23:34 By Reuters Wolfe Herd, executive chair of Bumble, will take the reins from Lidiane Jones, who steps down after a tenure of about a year that was marked by a nearly 50% decline in the company’s shares. This article is
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Biden signs sweeping cybersecurity order, just in time for Trump to gut it 2025-01-17 at 22:35 By Jessica Lyons Ransomware, AI, secure software, digital IDs – there’s something for everyone in the presidential directive Analysis Joe Biden, in the final days of his US presidency, issued another cybersecurity order that is nearly as vast in
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China to probe US chip subsidies as export curbs rattle allies 2025-01-17 at 21:48 By Dan Robinson Beijing investigating claims of unfair competition in mature semiconductors The “chip wars” between the US and China show no sign of cooling off as Beijing prepares to examine whether America is unfairly subsidizing its own semiconductor companies. Meanwhile,
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So, is TikTok banned now? The Supreme Court decision and the Tiktok ban explained 2025-01-17 at 21:01 By Thomas Barrabi TikTok is widely expected to go dark on Sunday – leaving more than 170 million American users unable to access the China-owned app. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews
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Fortinet: FortiGate config leaks are genuine but misleading 2025-01-17 at 20:51 By Connor Jones Competition hots up with Ivanti over who can have the worst start to a year Fortinet has confirmed that previous analyses of records leaked by the Belsen Group are indeed genuine FortiGate configs stolen during a zero-day raid in 2022.… This
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