News in the Technology category

PornHub now also blocks Texas over age verification laws

PornHub has now added Texas to its blocklist, preventing users in the state from accessing its site in protest of age verification laws.
- Lawrence Abrams
- March 15, 2024
- 01:11 PM
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McDonald's IT systems outage impacts restaurants worldwide

McDonald's restaurants are suffering global IT outages that prevent employees from taking orders and accepting payments, causing some stores to close for the day.
- Lawrence Abrams
- March 15, 2024
- 10:42 AM
- 2
Brave: Sharp increase in installs after iOS DMA update in EU

Brave has seen a sharp increase in users installing its privacy-focused Brave Browser on iPhones after Apple introduced changes to adhere to the new European Digital Markets Act.
- Mayank Parmar
- March 12, 2024
- 06:25 PM
- 2
UnitedHealth brings some Change Healthcare pharmacy services back online

Optum's Change Healthcare has started to bring systems back online after suffering a crippling BlackCat ransomware attack last month that led to widespread disruption to the US healthcare system.
- Bill Toulas
- March 08, 2024
- 12:54 PM
- 0
MiTM phishing attack can let attackers unlock and steal a Tesla

Researchers demonstrated how they could conduct a Man-in-the-Middle (MiTM) phishing attack to compromise Tesla accounts, unlocking cars, and starting them. The attack works on the latest Tesla app, version 4.30.6, and Tesla software version 11.1 2024.2.7.
- Bill Toulas
- March 07, 2024
- 12:07 PM
- 10
Apple fixes two new iOS zero-days exploited in attacks on iPhones

Apple released emergency security updates to fix two iOS zero-day vulnerabilities that were exploited in attacks on iPhones.
- Lawrence Abrams
- March 05, 2024
- 04:34 PM
- 0
Facebook and Instagram outage logs out users, passwords not working

Facebook and Instagram users worldwide have been logged out of the sites and are having trouble logging in, receiving errors that their passwords are incorrect.
- Mayank Parmar
- March 05, 2024
- 11:18 AM
- 4
Citrix, Sophos software impacted by 2024 leap year bugs

Citrix and Sophos products have been impacted by leap year flaws, leading to unexpected problems in their products.
- Bill Toulas
- February 29, 2024
- 01:30 PM
- 4
Anycubic 3D printers hacked worldwide to expose security flaw

According to a wave of online reports from Anycubic customers, someone hacked their 3D printers to warn that the devices are exposed to attacks.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- February 28, 2024
- 06:06 PM
- 0
Registrars can now block all domains that resemble brand names

Registrars can now block people from registering tens of thousands of domain names that look like, are spelling variations of, or otherwise infringe on brand names.
- Ax Sharma
- February 28, 2024
- 05:45 AM
- 6
Mowing down demons: DOOM comes to Husqvarna smart lawnmowers

If you ever wanted to play DOOM on a lawnmower, you will soon have your chance with a new software update coming to Husqvarna's robotic line of lawnmowers this spring.
- Lawrence Abrams
- February 26, 2024
- 05:17 PM
- 3
PayPal files patent for new method to detect stolen cookies

PayPal has filed a patent application for a novel method that can identify when "super-cookie" is stolen, which could improve the cookie-based authentication mechanism and limit account takeover attacks.
- Bill Toulas
- February 25, 2024
- 11:02 AM
- 3
FTC sues H&R Block over deceptive 'free' online filing ads

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sued tax preparation giant H&R Block over the company's deceptive "free" online filing advertising and for pressuring people into overpaying for its services.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- February 23, 2024
- 05:13 PM
- 2
Massive AT&T outage impacts US mobile subscribers

Tens of thousands of U.S. customers from Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T have been complaining about lack of wireless service or interruptions on Thursday morning.
- Ionut Ilascu
- February 22, 2024
- 10:48 AM
- 6
VoltSchemer attacks use wireless chargers to inject voice commands, fry phones

A team of academic researchers show that a new set of attacks called 'VoltSchemer' can inject voice commands to manipulate a smartphone's voice assistant through the magnetic field emitted by an off-the-shelf wireless charger.
- Bill Toulas
- February 20, 2024
- 03:38 PM
- 3
Signal rolls out usernames that let you hide your phone number

End-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal finally allows users to pick custom usernames to connect with others while protecting their phone number privacy.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- February 20, 2024
- 02:11 PM
- 4
Citibank sued over failure to defend customers against hacks, fraud

New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Citibank over its alleged failure to defend customers against hacks and scams and refusal to reimburse victims after allowing fraudsters to steal millions from their accounts.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- January 30, 2024
- 11:08 AM
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FTC orders Intuit to stop pushing "free" software that isn't really free

Today, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ordered Intuit to stop promoting its software products and services as "free" unless they're actually free for all consumers.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- January 22, 2024
- 04:37 PM
- 3
Jira down: Atlassian outage affecting multiple cloud services

Multiple Atlassian Jira products are experiencing an ongoing outage as of this morning. Users of Jira Work management, Jira Software, Jira Service Management and Jira Product Discovery are facing connection issues.
- Ax Sharma
- January 18, 2024
- 04:47 AM
- 0
Major T-Mobile outage takes down account access, mobile app

A major T-Mobile outage is preventing customers from logging into their accounts and using the company's mobile app.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- January 11, 2024
- 06:21 PM
- 3