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Flaw in iPhone, iPads May Have Allowed Hackers to Steal Data for Years…

Apple Inc is planning to fix a flaw that a security firm said may have left more than half a billion iPhones vulnerable to hackers. The bug, which also exists on iPads, was discovered by ZecOps, a San Francisco-based mobile security forensics company, while it was investigating a sophisticated cyberattack against a client that took […]

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The FCC Ratifies Wi-Fi 6E…

During the Federal Communications Commission’s monthly meeting today, it ratified unlicensed use of the 6GHz radio frequency spectrum in the USA. This decision opens the way for the proposed Wi-Fi 6E standard to move forward. Industry giants Intel and Broadcom began planning for this move two years ago. Broadcom released its first Wi-Fi 6E chipset […]

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Amazon Used Data from its Own Sellers to Then Launch Competing Products…

Amazon employees have used data about the vast number of independent sellers on its platform to create competing products — in violation of its own policies and statements to Congress, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The retail giant, which has felt a surge of goodwill for providing essential goods nationwide amid the coronavirus […]

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Palantir Tapped for White House Coronavirus Data Analysis…

Data-mining company Palantir will contribute to a US government program that helps top officials make recommendations to President Donald Trump, according to a Daily Beast report Tuesday. The program, reportedly called HHS Protect Now, crunches data to help officials understand the coronavirus pandemic, in which more than 850,000 people in the states have been diagnosed […]

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Zero-Day Warning: It’s Possible to Hack iPhones Just by Sending Emails…

Watch out Apple users! The default mailing app pre-installed on millions of iPhones and iPads has been found vulnerable to two critical flaws that attackers are exploiting in the wild, at least, from the last two years to spy on high-profile victims. The flaws could eventually let remote hackers secretly take complete control over Apple […]

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NASA’s Plan to Turn the ISS Into a Quantum Laser Lab…

Later this summer, physicists at the Argonne and Fermi national laboratories will exchange quantum information across 30 miles of optical fiber running beneath the suburbs of Chicago. One lab will generate a pair of entangled photons—particles that have identical states and are linked in such a way that what happens to one happens to the […]

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Drones from China Company Cause Spying Concerns…

Drones being used around the country to enforce coronavirus lockdowns were donated by a company with ties to the Chinese government, raising concerns that the nation many blame for allowing the virus to become a pandemic has sneaked a powerful espionage tool into the skies above its economic rival. Drones from Da Jiang Innovations (DJI) […]

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Facebook’s Digital Currency Project Just Got a Lot Less Audacious…

Remember Libra, Facebook’s plan to create a global digital currency? Unveiled last June, it was immediately met with resistance from policymakers and central bankers around the world. So, the team went back to the drawing board, and today it re-emerged with a new vision—one that is a lot less audacious than the original. Here are […]

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Inside China’s Huawei D.C. Influence Campaign…

Former Florida congressman Cliff Stearns once spearheaded Congress’s response to the risks that plague the nation’s information infrastructure, using his influence to warn Americans about the “increased possibility of a devastating cyberattack.” Now, he is among the growing number of former U.S. cyber and national security officials who have worked for a Chinese tech giant […]

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China’s Tech Totalitarianism…

The media tell us China “beat coronavirus.” I don’t believe it. The Chinese government lies. AEI’s Derrek Scissors argues that they’ve underreported the number of COVID-19 cases by millions. Still, it’s possible that China has the virus under control. But at what cost Most of us in America now practice “social distancing.” I’ve barely left […]

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Amazon Is Placing New Online Grocery Customers on a Waiting List…

Amazon is placing new grocery delivery customers on a waitlist as it pushes social distancing and grapples with the onslaught of digital orders placed during the ongoing coronavirus crisis. The e-commerce giant is focusing on orders placed by existing Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market delivery customers, for the time being, the company said in […]

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Snowden: Governments Using Pandemic to Build “Architecture of Oppression” Surveillance…

In addition to quarantines and lockdowns, some governments like those in China, Taiwan, and South Korea have been using a surveillance strategy called “contact tracing” to reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus. While each country’s contact tracing program has slight variations, all of them are essentially cell phone apps that keep a running record […]

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Sergeant-At-Arms Tells Senators to Stop Using Zoom…

The U.S. Senate Sergeant-at-Arms has reportedly advised members to cease the use of video conferencing app Zoom following a number of security issues being made public in recent weeks. The New York City Department of Education, Google, and the Taiwanese government have all banned the use of Zoom. The Financial Times reports that U.S. Senators […]

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7 Ways Hackers and Scammers Are Exploiting Coronavirus Panic…

In our previous stories, you might have already read about various campaigns warning how threat actors are capitalizing on the ongoing coronavirus pandemic in an attempt to infect your computers and mobile devices with malware or scam you out of your money. Unfortunately, to some extent, it’s working, and that’s because the attack surface is […]

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Feds Move to Block China-Owned Telecom Service from Operating in U.S…

The Justice Department and other executive branch agencies recommended Thursday that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) revoke and terminate China Telecom Corp.’s authorizations to provide international telecommunication services to and from the U.S. “Today, more than ever, the life of the nation and its people runs on our telecommunications networks,” said John C. Demers, assistant…

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Secure Remote Working During COVID-19 — Checklist for CISOs…

Coronavirus crisis introduces a heavy burden on the CISOs with the collective impact of a mass transition to working remotely coupled with a surge of cyberattacks that strive to monetize the general chaos. Security vendors, unintendedly, contribute to this burden by a relentless generation of noise in the form of attack reports, best practices, tips, […]

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Zoom Caught in Cybersecurity Debate — Here’s Everything You Need to Know…

Over the past few weeks, the use of Zoom video conferencing software has exploded ever since it emerged the platform of choice to host everything from cabinet meetings to yoga classes amidst the ongoing coronavirus outbreak and work from home became the new normal. The app has skyrocketed to 200 million daily users from an […]

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Twitter CEO’s $1B Coronavirus Relief Comes from Square Stake…

Jack Dorsey, the Square and Twitter CEO, plans to donate $1 billion of his equity in Square to create a COVID-19 relief fund that will contribute to other causes once the coronavirus pandemic passes. After the pandemic is over, his fund, #startsmall LLC, will give money toward cause such as universal basic income and girls’ […]

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