“Cybersecurity researchers are warning unsuspecting internet users about a year-old Chrome extension which steals credit card data from infected users via web forms on visited websites. The surreptitious extension is spread by means of JavaScript injection attacks i.e.”
Google Duplex now available in 43 states, coming to non-Pixel devices soon
“Google Duplex — the magical system that allows an artificial intelligence to place phone calls and make reservations at restaurants — is rolling out now to more areas of the United States. Previously, Duplex was only available in a few major metro areas, like San Francisco, New York and Atlanta.”
Gmail’s confidential mode now available to GSuite accounts as beta
“It’s hard to believe now, but Gmail’s interface revamp is almost a year old now. Really.”
T-Mobile Shares Tons of Details on Its Home Internet Service, Including Free Router
“T-Mobile is still trying to convince the US government that it should be allowed to merge with Sprint, leaving our country with three major wireless carriers.”
A Verizon outage is preventing ‘a ton’ of customers on the East Coast from texting
“The carrier’s customer support Twitter account confirmed the outage in response to questions and complaints from customers. The issue appears to have started at 8:30 a.m.”
Performance of Iodine over DNS-over-HTTPS
“Iodine is a DNS-tunnel that can be used to send TCP traffic encapsulated in DNS queries. Sometimes, this helps to bypass captive portals or otherwise restricted networks. In this blogpost I’ll test the performance of using Iodine in combination with DoH (DNS-over-HTTPS).”
Google helps make the password obsolete w/ FIDO2 support on Android, rolling out now
“Android Now FIDO2 Certified, Accelerating Global Migration Beyond Passwords Mobile apps and websites can now leverage FIDO standards to provide a simpler and secure biometric login for users on over a billion devices supporting Android 7.0+ BARCELONA, Spain, Feb.”
PSA: Don’t give out your phone number for Facebook 2FA, use an app instead
“It’s no secret that Facebook doesn’t respect your privacy in the least: we learned last October that the company used the phone number you provided for two-factor authentication to enable advertisers to target you.”
Serious Chrome zero-day – Google says update “right this minute”
“Chrome users, make sure you’ve got the very latest version. We’re not big Chrome fans – we’ve always thought that Firefox is better in both form and function, to be honest – but we have Chrome installed at the moment and can tell you that the version you want is 72.0.3626.”
Serious Chrome zero-day – Google says update “right this minute”
“Chrome users, make sure you’ve got the very latest version. We’re not big Chrome fans – we’ve always thought that Firefox is better in both form and function, to be honest – but we have Chrome installed at the moment and can tell you that the version you want is 72.0.3626.”