Windows Hello's facial recognition could be tricked under specific circumstances. This was shown by security researchers from CyberArk. Microsoft has now fixed this problem. The security gap was due to the handling of webcams and infrared images connected via USB. It was discovered that infrared ...
The Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office (LKA) warns of a phishing mail in the name of the Volksbanken Raiffeisenbanken, which is intended to encourage the recipient to reverse alleged, unauthorized direct debits. It claims that the respective account has been temporarily blocked because the said ...
The US search engine DuckDuckGo wants to offer a kind of mail relay in the future, similar to what various temp mailers, Firefox or Apple do. You create an address and can use it in any shop or forum on the Internet, for example. Your real address remains hidden, you only enter the alias. Mails to this ...
Image source: The Guardian This should be one of the big stories again - after all the data scandals that you now hear about a few times a month. Journalists, activists and politicians around the world are said to have been spied on by software. The Pegasus software from the Israeli company NSO Group ...
With the IT Security Act 2.0, the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) was commissioned to introduce a voluntary IT security label. This means that consumers should already have the opportunity to find out about the security functions of networked, Internet-enabled products and services guaranteed ...
You have all probably noticed the dilemma surrounding Western Digital. Storage solutions with an optional cloud connection that dropped out of support had security gaps that only became known after the end of support. The vulnerability was exploited by attackers and users' data was deleted. Western ...
We reported in January that the makers of the Dashlane password manager are discontinuing support for their Windows and Mac apps. Most users would not use those anyway and instead use Dashlane on the web or via an extension. In between, Dashlane announced a new Essentials subscription and in August they ...
For a long time, Google has been trying to make the web safer, among other things, by promoting the use of HTTPS as the standard for websites through various measures. With version 94, Chrome should offer even more options in the future to make the significantly more secure protocol more palatable to ...
We recently reported about the new Backblaze Computer Backup 8.0. A software that can back up complete databases of computers (macOS and Windows) in the cloud. Version 8.0 brought various improvements to the client, less load and more speed were in the changelog. Now the company will raise prices from ...
Will that please the customers? Tresorit, provider of encrypted cloud storage, was taken over by the majority of the Swiss Post. What does that mean for customers? Your existing contract and service will remain in effect. Keep the current management team, brand and service. Tresorit will be an independent ...
Today the time has come: After a long wait and last week's announcement, Synology's new update DSM 7.0 will be distributed from today (DSM 7.0-41890). Synology NAS devices are also well represented in our team. While Olli has been testing DSM 7.0 since the beta, I am now really excited about ...
We remember: In May 2021 the payment provider Klarna had a massive breakdown. Some users spied that 90,000 accounts were said to have been affected after logging in to third party data. Klarna attributed this to the mistake of a single employee, but in the company's home country, Sweden, this is not ...
