People are taking different tacks to get around Apple’s tightly controlled phone rules.
Monthly Archives: September 2019
Social media manipulation as a political tool is spreading
Researchers say ‘cyber troops’ in 70 countries are using it to automate suppression, mount smear campaigns, or spread disinformation.
Outlook on the web bans a further 38 file types
Outlook on the web bans a further 38 file types
Is the era of social media Likes over?
Instagram’s testing a program to hide the Likes that have created a toxic cyberbullying environment. Now, Facebook is as well.
‘Fleeceware’ Play store apps quietly charging up to $250
SophosLabs researchers discovered at least 15 apps with millions of downloads charging extraordinary prices right under the Google’s nose.
Apple users, patch now! The ‘bug that got away’ has been fixed
Apple has now patched the patch that Google said didn’t patch the hole it was supposed to.
Chrome cripples movie studio Mac Pros
A few days ago, movie editors started reporting that Mac Pros running Avid software were crashing throughout Hollywood.
Google made thousands of deepfakes to aid detection efforts
It’s an arms race: as detection methods improve, deepfake-generating algorithms are quickly updated to correct the flaws.
Match knowingly puts people at risk from scammers, FTC charges
Match.com allegedly put users on its free version at risk – by not filtering out communications that it knew were from fake accounts.
S2 Ep10: Emotet’s back, mutant WannaCry and Insta scam – Naked Security Podcast
Here’s the latest Naked Security podcast – listen now!