When the FBI urges E2EE, you know it’s serious business interview  In the wake of the Salt Typhoon hacks, which lawmakers and privacy advocates alike have called the worst telecoms breach in America’s history, the US government agencies have reversed course on encryption.… READ MORE HERE…

Points finger at third-party infrastructure being breached French tech giant Atos today denied that Space Bears criminals breached its systems – but noted that third-party infrastructure was compromised by the ransomware crew, and that files accessed by the crooks included “data mentioning the Atos company name.”… READ MORE HERE…

As if the bot defense measure wasn’t obnoxious enough Though the same couldn’t be said for most of us mere mortals, Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch had a productive festive period, resulting in a CAPTCHA that requires the user to kill three monsters in Doom – on nightmare mode.… READ MORE HERE…

Mini-C is a subset of C that can be automatically turned to Rust without much fuss Computer scientists affiliated with France’s Inria and Microsoft have devised a way to automatically turn a subset of C code into safe Rust code, in an effort to meet the growing demand for memory safety.… READ MORE HERE…

OFAC, Office of the Treasury Secretary feared hit in data-snarfing swoop Chinese spies who compromised the US Treasury Department’s workstations reportedly stole data belonging to a government office responsible for sanctions against organizations and individuals.… READ MORE HERE…

Even the sound of a zip could be enough to start the recordings, according to claims Apple has filed a proposed settlement in California suggesting it will pay $95 million to settle claims that Siri recorded owners’ conversations without consent and allowed contractors to listen in.… READ MORE HERE…