TL;DR: Protect your digital life on up to 10 devices with a five-year subscription to AdGuard VPN, on sale for $34.97 (reg. $359.40) through July 21. Opens in a new window Credit: AdGuard AdGuard VPN: 5-Year Subscription $34.97 at The Mashable Shop $359.40 Save $324.43 Get Deal When it comes …
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To protect America’s vital infrastructure from hackers without relying on a moribund Congress, the Biden administration bet big on creative uses of existing laws. But the Supreme Court probably blew up that approach. President Joe Biden’s strategy relied on agencies interpreting the laws that give them regulatory powers to include …
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A group calling itself “NullBulge” published a 1.1-TB trove of data late last week that it claims is a dump of Disney's internal Slack archive. The data allegedly includes every message and file from nearly 10,000 channels, including unreleased projects, code, images, login credentials, and links to internal websites and …
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US telecom giant AT&T, which disclosed Friday that hackers had stolen the call records for tens of millions of its customers, paid a member of the hacking team more than $300,000 to delete the data and provide a video demonstrating proof of deletion. The hacker, who is part of the …
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TL;DR: Get a three-year Windscribe VPN Pro Plan subscription for just $79 (reg. $207) through August 31. We all want online privacy and the ability to enjoy a seamless browsing experience. Lucky for us, VPNs are virtual private networks made for that exact reason. They are designed to enhance and …
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In one of the largest-ever breaches of a US telecom giant, AT&T revealed this week that “nearly all” its customer phone and text records were stolen after hackers accessed its account on a third-party cloud service. That cloud service, Snowflake, has been linked to several recent breaches, including those of …
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From targeted wiretaps to bulk surveillance dragnets, phone companies have been at the center of privacy concerns for decades—and their time in the limelight isn't over yet. On Friday, telecom giant AT&T announced that it recently suffered a data breach impacting call and text messaging records of “nearly all” its …
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The password killers known as “passkeys” are now available to users of Google's Advanced Protection Program, which works to add an additional layer of account protection for people who fear that they could face targeted digital attacks. The company is more than a year into supporting passkeys for all regular …
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Proton, the company behind Proton Mail, launched an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Docs, seeking to compete with the cloud giant on privacy. We broke down how Apple is taking a similar approach with its implementation of AI, using a system it calls Private Cloud Compute in its new Apple …
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In a sunlight-filled classroom at the US State Department’s diplomacy school in late February, America’s cyber ambassador fielded urgent questions from US diplomats who were spending the week learning about the dizzying technological forces shaping their missions. “This portfolio is one of the most interesting and perhaps the most consequential …
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