Enlarge / Signal’s security-minded messaging app is dealing with a third-party phishing attempt that exposed a small number of users’ phone numbers. (credit: Getty Images) A successful phishing attack at SMS services company Twilio may Read more…
Enlarge / A critical vulnerability in Zoom for Mac OS allowed unauthorized users to downgrade Zoom or even gain root access. It has been fixed, and users should update now. (credit: Getty Images) If you’re Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) I am not a data scientist. And while I know my way around a Jupyter notebook and have written a good amount of Python code, I do not Read more…
Enlarge (credit: HUM Images | Getty) Farmers around the world have turned to tractor hacking so they can bypass the digital locks that manufacturers impose on their vehicles. Like insulin pump “looping” and iPhone jailbreaking, Read more…
Enlarge / Jay Y. Lee, vice chairman of Samsung Electronics Co., leaves the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul, South Korea, on Friday. After a presidential pardon, Lee is poised to retake control of South Read more…
Enlarge / This is definitely not a Razer mouse—but you get the idea. (credit: calvio via Getty Images) There has been a recent flurry of phishing attacks so surgically precise and well-executed that they’ve managed Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Meta is ever so slowly expanding its trial of end-to-end encryption in a bid to protect users from snoops and law enforcement. End-to-end encryption, often abbreviated as E2EE, uses strong cryptography Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Anton Petrus | Getty) True 5G wireless data, with its ultrafast speeds and enhanced security protections, has been slow to roll out around the world. As the mobile technology proliferates—combining expanded speed and Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Kalief Browder) Google Fiber says it plans to expand its fiber-to-the-home Internet service to several new states for the first time since it announced a pause in construction in October Read more…
Enlarge / A truck delivery of fiber conduit and other materials for Jared Mauch’s broadband network. (credit: Jared Mauch) Jared Mauch, the Michigan man who built a fiber-to-the-home Internet provider because he couldn’t get good Read more…