[ad_1] The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has said Epic Games, the maker of Fortnite, will pay $520 million to settle allegations of violating children's privacy laws and using dark patterns to trick millions of players to make unintentional in-game purchases.…
[ad_1] Microsoft has confirmed that Windows Update will not offer optional updates in December, with the software giant focusing only on security updates due to the holiday season. This means that Windows 10 and all supported versions of Windows 11,…
[ad_1] Microsoft is investigating a known issue resulting in Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) crashes with 0xc000021a errors after installing Windows 10 cumulative update KB5021233 released on Patch Tuesday this month. The company warned over the weekend that "after installing…
[ad_1] Argishti Khudaverdyan, the former owner of a T-Mobile retail store, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for a $25 million scheme in which he unlocked and unlocked cellphones by hacking into T's internal systems. -Mobile. Between August 2014…
[ad_1] Restaurant customer management platform SevenRooms has confirmed it suffered a data breach after a malicious actor began selling stolen data on a hacking forum. SevenRooms is a customer relationship management (CRM) platform used by international restaurant chains and hotel…
[ad_1] Microsoft has confirmed that Windows Update will not offer optional updates in December, with the software giant focusing only on security updates due to the holiday season. This means that Windows 10 and all supported versions of Windows 11,…
[ad_1] Google announced on Friday that it is adding end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to Gmail on the web, allowing registered Google Workspace users to send and receive encrypted emails indoors and out. of their domain. Client-side encryption (as Google calls E2EE)…
[ad_1] The malicious Glupteba botnet has returned to action, infecting devices around the world after it was shut down by Google nearly a year ago. In December 2021, Google succeeded in causing a massive disruption to the blockchain-enabled botnet, obtaining…
[ad_1] To evade detection by security software, malware developers and threat actors are increasingly using compromised code signing certificates to sign their malware. This trend was illustrated this week when Microsoft revealed during the December Patch Tuesday this developer accounts…
[ad_1] The Australian Federal Police (AFP) today announced that a 24-year-old Melbourne woman, arrested in 2019 for her role in large-scale identity thefts, has been sentenced to five years and six months in prison. The woman pleaded guilty to her…
