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After a Twitter engineer posted photos of an Android dashboard showing his WhatsApp microphone being used while he slept, Elon Musk declared that WhatsApp could not be trusted. A developer for Twitter named Foad Dabiri said that while he was sleeping, …
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: NextGen Healthcare, a U.S.-based provider of electronic health record software, admitted that hackers breached its systems and stole the personal data of more than 1 million patients. In a data breac…
Under proposed ‘chat controls’ regulation, any encrypted service provider could be forced to screen for ‘identifiers’An EU plan under which all WhatsApp, iMessage and Snapchat accounts could be screened for child abuse content has hit a significant obs…
‘Intentional ambiguity’ over end-to-end encryption in online safety bill could lead to messaging app being withdrawnThe UK government risks sleepwalking into a confrontation with WhatsApp that could lead to the messaging app disappearing from Britain, …
Feature allows users to set a list of friends and post tweets that only they are supposed to be able to readA privacy breach at Twitter published tweets that were never supposed to be seen by anyone but the poster’s closest friends to the site at large…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Financial Times, written by journalist Cristina Criddle: One evening in late December last year, I received a cryptic phone call from a PR director at TikTok, the popular social media app. I’d written extens…
In the first quarter of 2023 there was a significant increase in cyberattacks exploiting trust in established tech brands Microsoft and Adobe, according to Avast. The Avast report also found a 40% rise in the share of phishing and smishing attacks over…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The City of Dallas in Texas has confirmed a ransomware attack has downed key services, including 911 dispatch systems. City officials confirmed on Wednesday that a number of the city’s servers had “b…
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