Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Two days before 23andMe disclosed that hackers had accessed the personal and genetic data of almost seven million customers, the genetic testing giant updated its terms of service. The changes are an effort to make it more difficult for the victims of the breach to band together in filing...
In 2015, as part of the wave of encrypting all the things on the internet, encouraged by the Edward Snowden revelations, Facebook announced that it would allow users to receive encrypted emails from the company.
Even at the time, this was a feature for the paranoid users. By turning on...
Your favorite messaging and calling app could reveal your IP address to the person on the other end of a call. And that, essentially, is because most chat apps default to using peer-to-peer connections — meaning you and the person you’re talking to connect directly to each other...
After a weekend of almost complete internet blackout, connectivity in Gaza has been partially restored.
On Friday, internet monitoring firms and experts reported that access to the internet had significantly degraded in the Palestinian enclave. The local internet service NetStream “collapsed,” according to NetBlocks, a firm that tracks internet...
Scammers have published various advertisements for hacking services on the official websites of multiple U.S. state, county and local governments, a federal agency, as well as numerous universities.
The advertisements were contained in PDF files uploaded to official .gov websites belonging to the state governments of California, North Carolina,...
Hackers have stolen email addresses, direct messages, and other personal data from users of two dating websites, according to a data breach expert.
Earlier this week, someone alerted Troy Hunt, the founder and maintainer of the data breach alerting website Have I Been Pwned, that hackers had breached two...
In March, Discord announced that it had integrated OpenAI’s technology into its bot named Clyde, turning into an AI-powered chatbot. Just like with any other chatbot launched in the last few months, users have been trying to trick Clyde into saying things it’s not supposed to say, a...
Kelly Lum, better known in hacking circles as Aloria, passed away on Sunday.
Aloria was a veteran of the cybersecurity community, especially the one in New York, her home for many years. The Twitter account of the New York City security conference SummerCon announced her death on Monday, prompting...
On Monday, Google announced that it had flagged several apps made by a Chinese e-commerce giant as malware, alerting users who had them installed, and suspended the company’s official app.
In the last couple of weeks, multiple Chinese security researchers accused Pinduoduo, a rising e-commerce giant that boasts almost...
An international coalition of law enforcement agencies announced on Wednesday that it had taken down the popular dark web crypto laundering service ChipMixer, seizing more than $46 million in crypto and terabytes of server data.
The service, for example, was used last year by the attacker who stole funds...
