Apple’s latest iPhone software update, iOS 18, arrives today and includes a new app: Passwords. For the first time, Apple is taking your phone’s ability to save login details and putting them in a standalone app. It could help improve millions of people’s terrible passwords. After years of being told …
Read More »A Creative Trick Makes ChatGPT Spit Out Bomb-Making Instructions
After Apple's product launch event this week, WIRED did a deep dive on the company's new secure server environment, known as Private Cloud Compute, which attempts to replicate in the cloud the security and privacy of processing data locally on users' individual devices. The goal is to minimize possible exposure …
Read More »Hackers steal nearly 1.7 million credit card numbers in breach
It seems like there’s a major new data breach occurring every few weeks now. Personal emails, phone numbers, and addresses are among the most common data affected by these breaches.But it’s much more concerning when bank account numbers or credit card information getting into the wrong hands. And one such …
Read More »Apple Intelligence Promises Better AI Privacy. Here’s How It Actually Works
The generative AI boom has, in many ways, been a privacy bust thus far, as services slurp up web data to train their machine learning models and users’ personal information faces a new era of potential threats and exposures. With the release of Apple’s iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia this …
Read More »Why you need a VPN
When it comes to privacy online, you’ve probably heard the acronym VPN being tossed around quite a bit. So, what exactly is a VPN and why do you need one?
Read More »Hackers Threaten to Leak Planned Parenthood Data
Your devices may be revealing a lot more about your life than you realize. During the Democratic National Convention in Chicago last month, we set out to find just how much data is floating around in the digital ether all around us. Armed with a fanny pack filled with radios—including …
Read More »Therapy Sessions Exposed by Mental Health Care Firm’s Unsecured Database
Thousands of people’s highly sensitive health details, including audio and video of therapy sessions, were openly accessible on the internet, new research has revealed. The cache of information, associated with a US health care firm, included more than 120,000 files and more than 1.7 million activity logs. At the end …
Read More »X beefs up safety staff, a few dozen people at a time
X (formerly Twitter) is re-investing in its trust, safety and security teams pre-election, after CEO Elon Musk controversially dissolved the platform’s oversight council nearly two years ago. The company has opened up two dozen new safety and cybersecurity positions at sites across the United States, TechCrunch reported, a lean addition …
Read More »54 of the best Harvard University courses you can take online for free
TL;DR: A wide range of free online courses from Harvard University are available to take on edX. edX hosts a wide range of free online courses from some of the top educational institutions in the world, including Harvard University. That means you can become a student of this famous school …
Read More »Russia’s Most Notorious Special Forces Unit Now Has Its Own Cyber Warfare Team
Russia's military intelligence agency, the GRU, has long had a reputation as one of the world's most aggressive practitioners of sabotage, assassination, and cyber warfare, with hackers who take pride in working under the same banner as violent special forces operators. But one new group within that agency shows how …
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