Across the European Union, spyware has been used to target opposition leaders, activists, journalists, and lawyers in multiple countries, calling for reforms. Recently, Google’s Threat Analysis Group announced an action to block one of these tools targeted at desktop computers,…
Category: Security
Interpol is Setting Up a Police Team in the Metaverse
Interpol, the global security organization has just announced ‘the first-ever metaverse specifically designed for law enforcement worldwide.’ They report that this would help police officers worldwide to ‘interact with other officers via their avatars,’ and take ‘immersive training courses in…
Researchers Say Anonymous Data doesn’t equal Private Data
A research team at the Illinois Institute of Technology have been successful in extracting personal information such as gender and age from anonymous cellphone data making use of artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms. This has raised a lot of…
Leading Tech Firms Promise not to Weaponize Robots
Boston Dynamics as well as five other robotics companies recently signed an open letter promising not to weaponize general-purpose robots— a much needed relief to the public. Agility Robotics, ANYbotics, Clearpath Robotics, Open Robotics, Unitree, and Boston Dynamics—the six leading…
Apple Cautions Against Security Vulnerability in iPhones, Macs, and iPads
On Wednesday, Apple revealed that their iPhones, iPads and Macs have serious vulnerabilities which could give hackers complete control of these devices. The explanation of the vulnerability given by Apple suggests that the attacker could obtain ‘full admin access’ to…
Janet Jackson’s Song Can Crash Windows XP Laptops
Microsoft software engineer Raymond Chen in a blog post on Wednesday, recounted that he had heard from a colleague in Windows XP product support that a Janet Jackson song could crash some Windows XP-era laptops. The blog post stated that…
Security Researcher Hacks Starlink’s User Terminal
For the past four years, Elon Musk’s Starlink has been launching over 3,000 small satellites into space. This satellite network provides internet connection to remote locations on Earth, especially since the Russian-Ukraine conflict. There are plans to launch more satellites,…
Amazon One Palm Payment Technology Expands to More Whole Foods Stores
Recent reports have revealed that Amazon’s ‘One’ palm scanner payment technology will be launching at over 60 Whole Food stores in the state of California. Stores in Los Angeles, Santa, Cruz, Malibu, Santa Monica, Orange County, Montana Avenue, the San…
New Program Can Trace Encrypted WhatsApp Messages
Mayank Varia, cryptographer and computer expert, may have found the solution to allow the sending of secure, confidential and untraceable messages, but still with a way to track threatening messages. Varia is an expert on the societal effect of programs…
North Korean Hackers Use Smart Hack to Read Your Gmail
Researchers have discovered new malware that North Korean hackers have been using to read and download emails and attachments from the accounts of infected users. Referred to as SHARPEXT by the researchers from Volexity, the security firm, the malware uses…