Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Streaming media platform Plex on Wednesday said it was hacked by intruders who managed to access a proprietary database and make off with password data, usernames, and emails belonging to at Read more…
Enlarge / Brian Kernighan speaking at a tribute to his Bell Labs coworker and The C Programming Language co-author Dennis Ritchie in 2012. Ritchie’s visage in dominoes is behind Kernighan. (credit: Ben Lowe/Flickr) A Princeton Read more…
Enlarge / Ally debit card owners are reporting fraudulent charges at a steady cadence over the past week. (credit: Getty Images) Ben Langhofer, a financial planner and single father of three in Wichita, Kansas, decided Read more…
Enlarge / A critical vulnerability in Zoom for MacOS, patched once last weekend, could still be bypassed as of Wednesday. Users should update again. (credit: Getty Images) It’s time for Zoom users on Mac to Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) The presence of advertisements apparently won’t be the only major difference between Netflix’s ad-supported and ad-free plans. Text reportedly found in the code of Netflix’s iPhone app suggests the Read more…
Enlarge / Ring camera images give you a view of what’s happening and, in one security firm’s experiments, a good base for machine learning surveillance. (credit: Ring) Amazon quietly but quickly patched a vulnerability in Read more…
Enlarge / It’s a good time to restart or update Chrome—if your tabs love you, they’ll come back. (credit: Getty Images) Google announced an update on Wednesday to the Stable channel of its Chrome browser Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A security researcher says that Apple’s iOS devices don’t fully route all network traffic through VPNs, a potential security issue the device maker has known about for years. Michael Horowitz, a Read more…
Enlarge / Digging into bleeding-edge Chrome code has made some bloggers hopeful, but Google has been focused on its own feeds for a while now. (credit: Getty Images) Does Google enjoy teasing and sometimes outright Read more…
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…