The users of the exchange are at risk. A 14,500-page document was submitted last week as part of the company's bankruptcy proceedings. Typically private, this sensitive information ties people's real-world identities to their once-anonymouscryptocurrencies transactions, making them ripe targets for scam artists and other criminals.
If you are planning to upgrade to the new phone, you should know that the security hardware is put through the wringer to make it harder to hack it. The tech giant plans to roll out a built-in virtual private network for the operating system.
We talked about how to take advantage of Microsoft's anti-phishing features. We explained to students and their parents what they should do to protect themselves from school cameras.
A Connecticut jury decided this week that Alex Jones must pay nearly $1 billion in damages for defaming the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting. The jury award doesn't change what "free speech" means in the US, but it might make social media platforms rethink their strategies.
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According to documents obtained by CNN, the company has stopped funding Starlink satellite internet service in war-torn Ukraine. Since Russia invaded the country, more than 20,000 Starlink terminals have been donated to the country. The Pentagon has been asked by the company to pick up the bill after the end of the year because it's too much for them.
The move to pull funding came at a bad time for Musk. The Pentagon was asked to pay for the Starlink terminal and service in a leaked letter. Musk got into a fight with Ukrainian officials after suggesting the country end the war by mostly agreeing to Russia's demands. According to a report, Musk had a phone call with Putin, but both Musk and the Kremlin denied it.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, also known as the Mormon Church, revealed this week that it was the victim of a cyber attack. At the request of law enforcement the church disclosed the intrusion. The data may include your usernames, membership record number, email address, birthdate, mailing address, phone number, and preferred language. Federal authorities believe the breach was part of a pattern of cyberattacks aimed at organizations and governments around the world that are not intended to cause harm to individuals.
The signal users groaned this week after it was announced that the app wouldn't support text messages. The feature made it possible for users of the app to message anyone, even if they weren't on Signal. This feature was not supported bySignal's version of the app. The potential for users to forget that they weren't sending end-to-end messages to non-Signal contacts was the reason for the move. In a forum post, Greyson Parrelli said that Signal didn't play well with the new messaging protocol, and that was one of the reasons why the company decided to stop sending text messages.
Bear-based elections are not as safe as they used to be. The officials behind the annual Fat Bear Week contest discovered on Sunday that someone had rigged the vote to favor a bear named 435. Fat Bear election integrity officials found thousands of fake email addresses linked to the bogus ballots, corrected the tally, and added a captcha to the site to fight off the spammers. The winner of the competition was a 1,400-pound bear named 747. According to the person who helps run the competition at the park, bears don't get anything from the event. The bears are all winners despite which one gets the most votes.
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