Despite promises, years of experience, and measures, it remains child’s play to place advertisements with incorrect information about elections on Facebook from abroad. The NGO Global Witness once again manages to embarrass Meta. It effortlessly placed ads in Brazil containing factually incorrect information about the upcoming elections. Advertisements that questioned […]
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Attackers used a so-called zero-day vulnerability to collect the email addresses and phone numbers of millions of Twitter account that went up for sale a few weeks ago. The news service itself has confirmed this. The data breach became known at the end of July when a hacker tried […]
Google is making its revamped Gmail interface available to all users. With the changes, you can easily switch between Chat and Spaces, among other things. It also makes making video calls from Gmail via Google Meet easier. Based on Google’s Material Design 3, the renewed interface has been available […]
Google is once again delaying its plans to ban the use of third-party cookies from Chrome. The new deadline is the second half of 2024. Google has been working on plans to ban third-party cookies from its Chrome browser, which tracks you across different websites. The tech giant originally […]
The American online retailer Amazon will increase the prices for its delivery and streaming service Prime in Europe. In a statement, Amazon cited “high inflation and operating costs,” as well as faster deliveries and more content to stream as reasons for the price hikes. In some countries, it is […]
Tesla was almost 5 percent higher on the stock exchanges in New York on Thursday. Investors processed the quarterly figures of the electric car manufacturer, which turned out somewhat better than expected. Tesla saw profits more than double in the second quarter compared to a year ago but made […]
The heat in Great Britain has partly caused the data centres of Oracle and Google to collapse. The Google Cloud status page stated for British customers that there were problems due to a ‘cooling-related failure’ in one data centre. As a result, virtual machines were shut down, and several physical […]
The owner of the so-called clone site MyStalk has been sued by Meta. The parent company of Instagram and Facebook claims that the man collected unsolicited data from 350,000 people through automated Instagram accounts, including photos and videos. A supplier of software with which such data can be collected […]
A massive outage at KDDI, Japan’s second-largest telecom operator, left nearly 40 million people around Tokyo without data or phones over the weekend. The breakdown started on Saturday morning after maintenance in a building west of Tokyo. The outage made it difficult to call, send messages or use data. […]
The malware was given the name YTStealer and seems to mainly target YouTube account logins to eventually take over the channels. The malware is particularly notable for its niche focus. YTStealer is built to steal login information and authentication tokens specifically for YouTube channels. However, according to security guard […]
