President Biden appoints ‘world-class’ cybersecurity team in wake of hacks

Posted on 22/01/2021 by Engadget

President Biden is elevating the importance of cybersecurity in light of the SolarWinds hack that compromised multiple government institutions. Reuters reports that Biden has appointed (and will soon appoint) a host of officials well-versed in cybers...

Airbnb has been quietly using social media to root out and ban extremists

Posted on 20/01/2021 by Engadget

Airbnb has canceled all bookings in Washington DC this week in an attempt to prevent people from traveling there for President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration in the wake of the January 6th US Capitol riot. The company is also said it is attempting to...

Chrome 88 makes it easier to manage and change passwords

Posted on 20/01/2021 by Engadget

Google has released another Chrome update for Windows, Mac and Linux, adding some personal security features that should keep users a little safer online. If you use Chrome's built-in password manager — which isn’t our recommendation, but it’s better...

Ring’s Neighbors app exposed precise locations and addresses

Posted on 14/01/2021 by Engadget

Ring’s Neighbors app is still suffering from privacy shortcomings almost three years later. TechCrunch has learned a bug in the Amazon-owned neighborhood watch tool exposed precise locations and home addresses for anyone posting in the software. The...

Ring starts offering end-to-end encryption to (some) of its users

Posted on 13/01/2021 by Engadget

Ring is announcing that end-to-end encryption (E2E) is rolling out to all users, in the form of a technical preview, starting today. The video doorbell company says that it will ask its customers for feedback before it becomes a standard, and require...

WhatsApp reassures users it can’t read their messages

Posted on 12/01/2021 by Engadget

WhatsApp has been forced to further clarify changes to its privacy policy, saying that it will not have access to its users private communications. In a tweet, the Facebook-owned platform says that it will “continue to protect your private messages w...

Qualcomm says its new in-display fingerprint sensor is 50 percent faster

Posted on 11/01/2021 by Engadget

Qualcomm is upgrading one of its in-display fingerprint sensors. The second-generation 3D Sonic Sensor is 77 percent larger than its predecessor. It covers an area of 64 square millimeters (8mm x 8mm) compared with the first version’s 36 square milli...

SolarWinds brings in a former federal cybersecurity chief as a consultant

Posted on 08/01/2021 by Engadget

As the fallout of the SolarWinds hack rumbles on, the embattled company has hired a security consultancy co-founded by Christopher Krebs, a former federal cybersecurity chief. Krebs led the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, a division...

WhatsApp: Let us share your data with Facebook or else

Posted on 07/01/2021 by Engadget

In a surprise move, WhatsApp recently gave many of its users a difficult choice: they could either accept a revised privacy policy that explicit allowed the service to share information with parent company Facebook by February 8th, or decline and ris...

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