Tuesday Newsday
Explore the latest in tech and security news with our curated weekly roundup. While we’d love to provide constant updates and blogs, we’ve gathered a handful of noteworthy links from the past week to keep you informed and engaged.
Google admits Chrome Incognito mode tracks users — what you need to know Forget using incognito mode, you should invest in a VPN instead – http://www.tomsguide.com
How a Data Breach of 1M Cancer Center Patients Led to Extorting Emails – Slashdot The Seattle Times reports: Concerns have grown in recent weeks about data privacy and the ongoing impacts of a recent Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center cyberattack that leaked personal information of – it.slashdot.org
How a Data Breach of 1M Cancer Center Patients Led to Extorting Emails – Slashdot
Brave Software has announced plans to deprecate the ‘Strict’ fingerprinting protection mode in its privacy-focused Brave Browser because it causes many sites to function incorrectly. – BleepingComputer
Brave to end ‘Strict’ fingerprinting protection as it breaks websites (bleepingcomputer.com)
Court charges dev with hacking after cybersecurity issue disclosure A German court has charged a programmer investigating an IT problem with hacking and fined them €3,000 ($3,265) for what it deemed was unauthorized access to external computer systems and spying on – http://www.bleepingcomputer.com
Court charges dev with hacking after cybersecurity issue disclosure (bleepingcomputer.com)
Microsoft network breached through password-spraying by Russia-state hackers Senior execs’ emails accessed in network breach that wasn’t caught for 2 months. – arstechnica.com
Microsoft network breached through password-spraying by Russia-state hackers | Ars Technica
The Tech Employee Who Went Viral for Filming Her Firing Has No Regrets Ex-Cloudflare employee Brittany Pietsch said other companies have reached out since she shot to social-media fame. – http://www.wsj.com
The Tech Employee Who Went Viral for Filming Her Firing Has No Regrets – WSJ
Beginning September 30, 2024: third-party apps that use only a password to access Google Accounts and Google Sync will no longer be supported What’s changing As part of our commitment to user safety, Google Workspace will no longer support the sign-in method for third-party apps – workspaceupdates.googleblog.com
Microsoft sets 16GB default for RAM for AI PCs – machines will also need 40 TOPS of AI compute: Report You might thank AI for raising the entry-level PC RAM quota. – http://www.tomshardware.com
Have I Been Pwned Adds 71 Million Emails From Naz.API Stolen Account List – Slashdot An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bleeping Computer: Have I Been Pwned has added almost 71 million email addresses associated with stolen accounts in the Naz.API dataset to its data breach – yro.slashdot.org
Have I Been Pwned Adds 71 Million Emails From Naz.API Stolen Account List – Slashdot
JPMorgan Suffers 45 Billion Cyber Attacks a Day – Slashdot Speaking of cyber attacks, JPMorgan Chase is targeted by hackers trying to infiltrate its systems 45 billion times a day (Warning: source may be paywalled; alternative source) — twice the rate – it.slashdot.org
JPMorgan Suffers 45 Billion Cyber Attacks a Day – Slashdot
New UEFI vulnerabilities send firmware devs industry wide scrambling Pixie Fail is a huge deal for cloud and data centers. For the rest, less so. – arstechnica.com
New UEFI vulnerabilities send firmware devs industry wide scrambling | Ars Technica
Apple might have sold up to 180,000 Vision Pro headsets over pre-order weekend Analyst Min-Chi Kuo estimates that Apple sold 160,000 to 180,000 Vision Pro headsets during its first pre-order weekend. – http://www.engadget.com
Apple might have sold up to 180,000 Vision Pro headsets over pre-order weekend (engadget.com)
iOS 17.3 Features: What’s New in iOS 17.3 Apple today released iOS 17.3, a major update to the iOS operating system that adds Stolen Device Protection, collaborative Apple Music playlists – http://www.macrumors.com
iOS 17.3 Features: What’s New in iOS 17.3 – MacRumors
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