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Credit to Author: Andrew Couts| Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 23:41:00 +0000
The Amazon-owned home surveillance company says it is shuttering a feature in its Neighbors app that allows police to request footage from users. But it’s not shutting out the cops entirely.
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Credit to Author: Vas Panagiotopoulos| Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
NSO Group, creator of the infamous Pegasus spyware, is spending millions on lobbying in Washington while taking advantage of the crisis in Gaza to paint itself as essential for global security.
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Credit to Author: Scharon Harding, Ars Technica| Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2024 21:11:43 +0000
The company says it wants to protect you from “viruses.” Experts are skeptical.
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Credit to Author: Dhruv Mehrotra| Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Police around the US say they’re justified to run DNA-generated 3D models of faces through facial recognition tools to help crack cold cases. Everyone but the cops thinks that’s a bad idea.
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Credit to Author: Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica| Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2024 18:00:00 +0000
Software flaws were allegedly hidden from lawyers of wrongly convicted UK postal workers.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2024 14:00:00 +0000
Plus: Microsoft says attackers accessed employee emails, Walmart fails to stop gift card fraud, “pig butchering” scams fuel violence in Myanmar, and more.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 14:00:00 +0000
A new report from Chainalysis finds that stablecoins like Tether, tied to the value of the US dollar, were used in the vast majority of crypto-based scam transactions and sanctions evasion in 2023.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess| Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2024 17:00:00 +0000
Patching every device affected by the LeftoverLocals vulnerability—which includes some iPhones, iPads, and Macs—may prove difficult.
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