Why helpful bots could hurt vaccine roll-outs
Web traffic generated by automated bots hit record highs in 2020, accounting for 40.8% of all internet traffic, up 6.2% on the previous year. That is according to the...
Ransomware crooks post cops’ psych evaluations after talks with DC police stall
A ransomware gang that hacked the District of Columbia’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) in April posted personnel records on Tuesday that revealed highly sensitive details for almost two dozen officers,...
Instagram for Kids is a really bad idea, Facebook told by US lawyers
Facebook's rumored plans for an 'Instagram for Kids' app haven't been very well received so far – and they've just come under even more fire in a bombshell letter written...
AWS, Microsoft and Google secure spots on £750m UK government Cloud Compute framework
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google and Microsoft are among the nine suppliers to have secured a place on the Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS) £750m hyperscale-focused Cloud Compute framework. The...
Swedish court finds ambiguities in hacked EncroChat cryptophone evidence
A Swedish court has overturned a ruling to convict a 23-year-old man accused of illegal firearm possession based on evidence obtained from the EncroChat hack, raising questions about its...
Facebook tests prompt to stop people sharing articles they haven’t read
In its ongoing battle to curb misinformation, Facebook has announced that it's testing a new feature that will warn users who try to share articles they haven't actually read.According to...
Amazon “seized and destroyed” 2 million counterfeit products in 2020
Enlarge / Amazon trailers backed into bays at a distribution center in Miami, Florida, in August 2019. Amazon "seized and destroyed" over 2 million counterfeit products that sellers sent to...
Security researcher successfully jailbreaks an Apple AirTag
After permanently bricking two AirTags, stacksmashing succeeded in breaking into and reprogramming a third. stacksmashing used segger.com's J-Link flash download utility to extract firmware from the AirTag's nRF52 Bluetooth Low...
Hackers who shut down pipeline: We don’t want to cause “problems for society”
Enlarge / Problems with Colonial Pipeline's distribution system tend to lead to gasoline runs and price increases across the US Southeast and Eastern seaboard. In this September 2016 photo, a...
Why WordPress is great for your ecommerce website
With the US on track to become a trillion-dollar ecommerce market by 2022, ecommerce activity is beating even bullish expectations. At the same time, the surge in ecommerce activity that took...