Fossbytes has an article detailing how you can check to see if your mobile device is infected with the “Pegasus” spyware. What’s Pegasus you ask? It’s phone-penetrating spy software developed by NSO Group and sold to governments to target journalists a…
Amazon Denies Report of Accepting Bitcoin As Payment
Amazon on Monday denied a media report saying the e-commerce giant was looking to accept bitcoin payments by the end of the year. Reuters reports: The report from London’s City A.M. newspaper, citing an unnamed “insider,” sent the world’s biggest crypt…
Olympics Broadcaster Announces His Computer Password on Live TV
In what is, at least so far, the biggest cybersecurity blunder of the Tokyo Olympics, an Italian TV announcer did not realize he was on air when he asked the password for his computer. Motherboard reports: “Do you know the password for the computer in …
Tether Executives Said To Face Criminal Probe Into Bank Fraud
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: A U.S. probe into Tether is homing in on whether executives behind the digital token committed bank fraud, a potential criminal case that would have broad implications for the cryptocurrency market. T…
Google Updates Timeline For Unpopular Privacy Sandbox, Which Will Kill Third-Party Cookies In Chrome By 2023
Google has updated the schedule for its introduction of “Privacy Sandbox” browser technology and the phasing out of third-party cookies. The Register reports: The new timeline has split the bundle of technologies in the Privacy Sandbox into five phases…
Japan Pitches ‘Society 5.0’ To Keep Its Edge In Tech and Science
The Cabinet Office of Japan is co-hosting an event dedicated to “Society 5.0,” a future society the government believes Japan should aspire to. Defined by the Cabinet Office as “a human-centered society [helped] by a system that highly integrates cyber…
Police Are Telling ShotSpotter To Alter Evidence From Gunshot-Detecting AI
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: On May 31 last year, 25-year-old Safarain Herring was shot in the head and dropped off at St. Bernard Hospital in Chicago by a man named Michael Williams. He died two days later. Chicago police even…