A vast location-tracking network is being built around us so we don’t lose our keys: One couple’s adventures in the consumer tech surveillance state.
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Dance, I Said — Dance! And Leave the Package on the Porch.
The combination of next-day delivery, Ring surveillance footage and TikTok has put a spotlight on Amazon drivers. But it’s also created a new main character: the package itself.
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Police in Spain dismantle a SIM-swapping ring that drained bank accounts
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Authorities in Spain said they broke up a SIM-swapping crime ring that used identity theft and falsified documents and texts to target victims’ bank accounts. In a press release, Spain’s National Police agency said it arrested eight individuals in connection with the operation, which began no later than last March. The...
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Hundreds of e-commerce sites booby-trapped with payment card-skimming malware
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) About 500 e-commerce websites were recently found to be compromised by hackers who installed a credit card skimmer that surreptitiously stole sensitive data when visitors attempted to make a purchase. A report published on Tuesday is only the latest one involving Magecart, an umbrella term given to competing crime groups that...
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A Gene Sequencing Pioneer Battles Over What It Can Buy
Is Illumina, a gene-sequencing powerhouse, trying to speed innovation in the field of cancer blood tests or thwart it with an acquisition?
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Twitter’s Mixed Fourth-Quarter Earnings Show Challenges Ahead
The company has ambitious targets for growth in the next two years.
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Uber Says It’s Bouncing Back From Pandemic In Earnings Report
Revenue in the last three months of 2021 was up 83 percent from a year earlier, the company reported.
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Microsoft Starts Charm Offensive to Push Through Activision Deal
Regulators are expected to give Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard — the largest in Microsoft’s history — a tough review.
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Hacker Who Sold Pirated Video Games Gets More Than 3 Years in Prison
Gary Bowser, 52, pleaded guilty for his role in a group that sold pirated video games for devices like the Nintendo Switch, costing companies more than $65 million, prosecutors said.
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After lying low, SSH botnet mushrooms and is harder than ever to take down
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Ars Technica) Two years ago, researchers stumbled upon one of the Internet’s most intriguing botnets: a previously undiscovered network of 500 servers, many in well-known universities and businesses around the world, that was impervious to normal takedown methods. After lying low for 16 months, those researchers said, the botnet known...