Utah Sues TikTok for Getting Children Addicted Apparently Facebook, Snapchat and Twitter are not addictive since Utah has singled out TikTok to sue for being addictive. They also say that TikTok deceptively obscures its relationship with ByteDance. Indiana made similar allegations and Montana banned the app completely. This will take years, if not a decade […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Western Digital Blocks Unpatched Systems From Accessing Their Cloud Western Digital’s My Cloud software allows owners of Western Digital storage systems to synchronize their data with the WD cloud. A 9.8 score bug was discovered last year. As a way to “encourage” users to patch their systems, WD is blocking unpatched systems from accessing the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Courts can’t quite figure out how to treat Internet companies. Amazon is an interesting mix. It sells some products itself, it offers other products that are sold and fulfilled by third parties and it does a mix (products sold by third parties but fulfilled by Amazon). I hope Amazon is hiring a lot of lawyers […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Apple Offers Fixes For Broken iPhone 12s While not exactly a security issue, Apple is offering to fix defective iPhone 12s that were made between October 2020 and April 2021 and which have a defective receiver module component. That is mighty kind of them since every single one of them is still under warranty and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Android Trojan Hits 140 Countries, 10,000 Victims Via Social Media Hijack Security company Zimperium says they have found a new trojan they call Flytrap that has been around since March and compromises users’ phones who side load apps from third party app stores. Once the malicious app is on the user’s phone, it uses that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]China Bans Military and Government from using Teslas – Due to ‘Spying’ The WSJ is reporting that the Chinese government has restricted the use of Tesla vehicles near or in sensitive installations like military and government facilities. The theory is that the cameras on Teslas could be used for spying. Tesla, of course, denies that […]
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