Chinese hacker forged authentication tokens to access government email: Microsoft
A China-based threat actor was able to access cloud-based Microsoft email accounts of approximately 25 organizations — including government agencies, as well as related consumer accounts of individuals likely associated with these organizations — by forging authentication tokens to access user email, the company has warned. It doesn’t say how, but the group — which
QuickBlox app developers urged to update platform to close serious holes
Researchers at CheckPoint Software and Claroty found holds that could allow hackers to take over apps and steal personal i
Twitter’s traffic declines as Threads gains traction
Threads surpassing 100 million sign-ups in just five days has led to a decline in traffic to Twitter, according to data from Cloudflare and SimilarWeb. Twitter traffic has been trending downward since January, but the launch of Threads seems to have accelerated this decline. In the two days after Threads launched, Twitter traffic dropped by […]
Huawei to return to 5G smartphone market by end of 2023
Huawei Technologies is planning to return to the 5G smartphone market by the end of this year. The company has been working on its own semiconductor design tools and has partnered with Semiconductor Manufacturing International Co (SMIC) to produce 5G chips domestically. Huawei’s return to the 5G market would be a major comeback for the […]
Google accused of scraping data
Google, DeepMind, and Alphabet have been accused of secretly scraping data from the internet to build their own AI chatbot, Bard. The firms were accused in a class action lawsuit filed in a California federal court, alleging that they’ve been secretly appropriating vast amounts of online content from millions of Americans. The plaintiffs, including eight […]
Dukaan CEO lays off 90% of customer support staff, replaces them with AI chatbot
Suumit Shah, the CEO of the e-commerce platform Dukaan, has come under fire after he announced on Twitter that he had laid off 90% of his customer support staff and replaced them with an AI chatbot. Shah’s tweets, which have been viewed over 1.5 million times, sparked an online backlash, with many users criticizing him […]
Elon Musk launches new AI startup, xAI
Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has launched a new AI startup called xAI. The company’s goal is to “understand the true nature of the universe,” according to its website. xAI is led by Musk and a team of research engineers who have previously worked for Google Research, DeepMind, OpenAI, Microsoft Research, […]
Lawmakers accuse tax prep firms of sharing sensitive data with Meta, Google
A group of seven lawmakers have called for an investigation into tax preparation firms that shared sensitive taxpayer data with Meta and Google. They wrote a letter to the heads of prominent agencies, including the IRS, the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, and the IRS watchdog. The data included information on taxpayers’ filing […]
FTC considers “Negative Option Rule”
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is considering enacting a “Negative Option Rule” to make it easier for individuals to cancel subscriptions. This regulation would require firms to properly and prominently display crucial subscription facts such as the trial period’s end date, the cancellation deadline, how frequently charges occur, payment dates, and cancellation information. Furthermore, before […]
Privacy advocates and lawmakers clash over child online safety and encryption
Privacy advocates are preparing to address laws that could affect children’s online safety and encrypted services in United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union. In the U.K., the Online Safety Bill is under consideration, which would grant the country’s communications regulator the power to scan end-to-end encrypted messages for child sexual abuse materials. […]
