Slack and Teams’ Lax App Security Raises Alarms
Collaboration apps like Slack and Microsoft Teams have become the connective tissue of the modern workplace, tying together users with ...
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The FTC May (Finally) Protect Americans From Data Brokers
On August 29, the Federal Trade Commission announced it had filed a landmark lawsuit against data broker Kochava for “selling ...
Why the Twilio Breach Cuts So Deep
The communication company Twilio suffered a breach at the beginning of August that it says impacted 163 of its customer ...
The Twitter Whistleblower Plays Right Into Elon Musk’s Hands
“If what Zatko alleges is true, Twitter has violated its users’ trust and deceived the Federal Trade Commission and its ...
The Most Damning Allegation in the Twitter Whistleblower’s Report
Zakto further alleges that Twitter has no comprehensive development or testing environments for piloting new features and system upgrades before ...
Playing Janet Jackson’s ‘Rhythm Nation’ Can Crash Old Hard Drives
A new jailbreak for John Deere tractors, demonstrated at the Defcon security conference in Las Vegas last Saturday, put a ...
Spyware Hunters Are Expanding Their Toolset
The surveillance-for-hire industry's powerful mobile spyware tools have gotten increasing attention lately as tech companies and governments grapple with the ...
A Flaw in the VA’s VistA Medical Records Platform May Put Patients at Risk
the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs runs some interesting technology programs, but it's not known for being a flexible or ...
The FTC Gears Up for a Data Privacy Crackdown
We’ve also looked at how new data rulings in Europe could stop Meta from sending data from the EU to ...
Github Moves to Guard Open Source Against Supply Chain Attacks
Following the 2020 SolarWinds cyberespionage campaign, in which Russian hackers slipped tainted updates into a widely used IT management platform, ...