Jenny Blessing and Ross Anderson have evaluated the security of systems designed to allow the various Internet messaging platforms to interoperate with each other: The Digital Markets Act ruled that users on different platforms should be able to exchange messages with each other. This opens up a real Pandora’s box. How will the networks manage… Continue reading The Security Vulnerabilities of Message Interoperability

HomeHow Does a Window Sensor Work? By Celeste Tholen Contributing Writer March 29, 2023Share Article SafeWise is an independent review site. We may earn money when you click links on our site. Learn how we rank and review. Window sensors are must-haves for comprehensive home security systems—they can promptly notify you if someone attempts to… Continue reading How Does a Window Sensor Work?

Both Google’s Pixel’s Markup Tool and the Windows Snipping Tool have vulnerabilities that allow people to partially recover content that was edited out of images.

The United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has been busy setting up phony DDoS-for-hire websites that seek to collect information on users, remind them that launching DDoS attacks is illegal, and generally increase the level of paranoia for people looking to hire such services. The warning displayed to users on one of the NCA’s fake… Continue reading UK Sets Up Fake Booter Sites To Muddy DDoS Market

Well, this is something you don’t see very often: secrets about a still-unannounced product — shared only with a small, hand-picked group of senior managers — that somehow leak. Ruining the surprise That’s what’s happened regarding Apple’s most secret non-secret product, its first-generation mixed-reality headset destined (we think) to appear at WWDC in June and… Continue reading Apple Reality tidbits continue to leak — is the product really ready?

An impressive array of hacks were demonstrated at the first day of the Pwn2Own conference in Vancouver: On the first day of Pwn2Own Vancouver 2023, security researchers successfully demoed Tesla Model 3, Windows 11, and macOS zero-day exploits and exploit chains to win $375,000 and a Tesla Model 3. The first to fall was Adobe… Continue reading Hacks at Pwn2Own Vancouver 2023

A destructive tornado with winds up to 170 mph started in Rolling Fork, Miss. It quickly became one of the deadliest ever in the state.

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This is fascinating: “When a squid ends up chipping what’s called its ring tooth, which is the nail underneath its tentacle, it needs to regrow that tooth very rapidly, otherwise it can’t claw its prey,” he explains. This was intriguing news ­ and it sparked an idea in Hopkins lab where he’d been trying to… Continue reading Friday Squid Blogging: Creating Batteries Out of Squid Cells

Scientists discovered dumped barrels of the harmful chemical DDT, which has not broken down and remains “pure” within disintegrating barrels.