The U.K. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is calling on manufacturers of smart devices to comply with new legislation that prohibits them from using default passwords, effective April 29, 2024. “The law, known as the Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure act (or PSTI act), will help consumers to choose smart devices that have been designed to
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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today levied fines totaling nearly $200 million against the four major carriers — including AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon — for illegally sharing access to customers’ location information without consent. The fines mark the culmination of a more than four-year investigation into the actions of the major carriers. In […]
A new cluster of activity tracked as “Muddling Meerkat” is believed to be linked to a Chinese state-sponsored threat actor’s manipulation of DNS to probe networks globally since October 2019, with a spike in activity observed in September 2023. […]
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined the largest U.S. wireless carriers almost $200 million for sharing their customers’ real-time location data without their consent. […]
Microsoft already has Ink to Text Pen tool feature in Word, OneNote, and PowerPoint for Windows. Today, Microsoft announced that the Ink to Text Pen tool is now available in Excel for Windows. With the new Ink to Text Pen tool, you can start writing over a cell in a spreadsheet. And the tool will […]
Canadian pharmacy chain London Drugs has closed all its retail stores to contain what it described as a “cybersecurity incident.” […]
Google on Monday revealed that almost 200,000 app submissions to its Play Store for Android were either rejected or remediated to address issues with access to sensitive data such as location or SMS messages over the past year. The tech giant also said it blocked 333,000 bad accounts from the app storefront in 2023 for […]
Microsoft announced expanded language support for Copilot for Microsoft 365. Copilot can now understand and respond to user prompts in 16 additional languages. This brings the total number of supported languages to 25. The newly supported languages include: Existing supported languages include various versions of: While Chinese (Traditional) isn’t officially listed as fully supported yet, Microsoft is making it available […]
The FBI is warning of fake verification schemes promoted by fraudsters on online dating platforms that lead to costly recurring subscription charges. […]