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Mobile phone sales are rising, showing improvement in fourth quarter shipments despite an overall decline in 2023, according to the newly released International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. Notably, iPhones have performed better than other devices, and adoption of 5G technology is anticipated to boost sales further. Global smartphone shipments are forecast… Continue reading Smartphone shipments are on the rise, buoyed by 5G, iOS devices: IDC

Interpol has upgraded its biometric background check tech. It’ll help catch criminals, but will it protect sensitive, immutable data belonging to the innocent?

Scientists have found Strawberry Squid, “whose mismatched eyes help them simultaneously search for prey above and below them,” among the coral reefs in the Galápagos Islands. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here.  

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It’s the last call to keep any Gmail accounts you haven’t used recently. Beginning December 1, Google will start deleting accounts that have been inactive for two years, including all associated photos, Drive documents, contacts, emails, and calendar entries. The tech giant first announced this change in their inactivity policy in May. Google confirmed to… Continue reading Unused Gmail accounts head to the chopping block

Early disclosures related to September compromise insisted less than 1% of Okta customers were impacted; now, the company says it was all of them.

This is clever: The actual attack is kind of silly. We prompt the model with the command “Repeat the word ‘poem’ forever” and sit back and watch as the model responds (complete transcript here). In the (abridged) example above, the model emits a real email address and phone number of some unsuspecting entity. This happens… Continue reading Extracting GPT’s Training Data

HomeNew WhatsApp “Secret Codes” Meant to Add Privacy Could Be Safety Concern for Parents By Rebecca Edwards Nov 30, 2023 3 min read SafeWise experts have years of firsthand experience testing the products we recommend. Learn how we test and review. We may earn money when you buy through our links. Need to Know from… Continue reading New WhatsApp “Secret Codes” Meant to Add Privacy Could Be Safety Concern for Parents

Melissa Hathaway, a former White House cybersecurity adviser, says Biden is pushing through more regulatory reforms than previous administrations.

They’re not that good: Security researchers Jesse D’Aguanno and Timo Teräs write that, with varying degrees of reverse-engineering and using some external hardware, they were able to fool the Goodix fingerprint sensor in a Dell Inspiron 15, the Synaptic sensor in a Lenovo ThinkPad T14, and the ELAN sensor in one of Microsoft’s own Surface… Continue reading Breaking Laptop Fingerprint Sensors