Star Blizzard hackers abuse WhatsApp to target high-value diplomats
Russian nation-state actor Star Blizzard has been running a new spear-phishing campaign to compromise WhatsApp accounts of targets...
Watch: How TikTok ‘went dark’ in the US
BBC Tech Correspondent Lily Jamali explains what happened and what it means for the popular platform. Source:: BBC...
TikTok Goes Dark in the U.S. as Federal Ban Takes Effect January 19, 2025
Popular video-sharing social network TikTok has officially gone dark in the United States, 2025, as a federal ban...
TikTok goes offline in the US hours before ban due to come in
A message appearing for US users said a law banning TikTok had been enacted, meaning “you can’t use...
FTC orders GM to stop collecting and selling driver’s data
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced action against General Motors (GM) and its subsidiary, OnStar, for unlawful...
Microsoft removes Assassin’s Creed Windows 11 upgrade blocks
Earlier this week, Ubisoft released Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and Assassin’s Creed Origins patches to fix Windows 11 24H2...
UK set to introduce digital driving licences
The government says technology should “make people’s lives easier” but any system won’t be mandatory. Source:: BBC News...
U.S. Sanctions Chinese Cybersecurity Firm Over Treasury Hack Tied to Silk Typhoon
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has imposed sanctions against a Chinese cybersecurity company...
TikTok says it will ‘go dark’ on Sunday without US government action
The Supreme Court earlier upheld a law that would ban the video app in the US unless its...
TikTok creators mourn app where ‘overnight’ success is possible
Some creators told the BBC they will start to diversify where they post their content and lean in...
AWS CodeBuild now supports test splitting and parallelism
You can now split your tests and run them across multiple, parallel-running compute environments. Based on your sharding...
FTC cracks down on Genshin Impact gacha loot box practices
Genshin Impact developer Cognosphere (aka Hoyoverse) has agreed to a $20 million settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade...
Amazon S3 Tables are now available in five additional AWS Regions
Amazon S3 Tables are now available in five additional AWS Regions: Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe...
Amazon Connect outbound campaigns can connect a call with an agent in under 2 seconds
Amazon Connect outbound campaigns can now be configured to connect a customer who has picked up a campaign...
Otelier data breach exposes info, hotel reservations of millions
Hotel management platform Otelier suffered a data breach after threat actors breached its Amazon S3 cloud storage to...
Otelier data breach exposes info, hotel reservations of millions
Hotel management platform Otelier suffered a data breach after threat actors breached its Amazon S3 cloud storage to...
Malicious PyPi package steals Discord auth tokens from devs
A malicious package named ‘pycord-self’ on the Python package index (PyPI) targets Discord developers to steal authentication tokens...
Malicious PyPi package steals Discord auth tokens from devs
A malicious package named ‘pycord-self’ on the Python package index (PyPI) targets Discord developers to steal authentication tokens...
Amazon Redshift announces support for two new geospatial H3 Indexing functions
Amazon Redshift extends support for Hexagonal Hierarchical Geospatial Indexing System, H3 for short, by adding two new H3...
Product Recall: Antari Fog Machine F-80Z (2412-0145)
Source:: UK Gov Product Safety Alerts, Reports and Recalls