Mac users started Experiencing unforeseen issues on Thursday, including taking a few minutes to launch applications, non-response during stuttering and mcus, and other issues. The issues seemed close when Apple started rolling out a new version of PlayStation, Big Sur, but users of other versions of MacOS like Catalona and …
Read More »A Tesla employee rejects an alleged Ransomware plot
Earlier this month, according to a recently unsealed criminal complaint, a 27-year-old Russian man named Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov met an old friend who now works at Tesla at a bar in Reno. They drank until the last call. At one point in the evening, the FBI says, Kriuchkov took the …
Read More »Kids stream on Twitch: where potential predators find them
Similar spot checks from less popular Twitch competitors YouTube Gaming and Facebook Gaming yielded far fewer cases of apparent live streaming of children. To stream on YouTube via mobile devices, a user must have more than 1,000 followers. Facebook Live doesn’t have a comparable restriction, but its live channel discovery …
Read More »Apple’s hackable iPhones are finally here
Last August, Apple announced that it would distribute special iPhones to elite security researchers. The idea was to offer a device that had fewer restrictions, allowing researchers to focus on security vulnerabilities more easily, without having to work on the standard iOS defenses first. Starting today, you can apply to …
Read More »Who pulled out the Twitter trick?
Wednesday a the unprecedented Twitter hack saw the accounts of Elon Musk, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Apple, Uber and more falling into the hands of attackers who used that access to … push a bitcoin scam ? It was a very bad day, not a very …
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