Enlarge / The Internet is unfortunately packed full of criminals seeking to steal sexual (or sexualizable) images from privately held cloud backup accounts. 1905HKN via Getty Images / Jim Salter The LA Times reported this week that Los Angeles man Hao Kuo "David" Chi pled guilty to four federal felonies…
Enlarge Getty Images Recently detected Android malware, some spread through the Google Play Store, uses a novel way to supercharge the harvesting of login credentials from more than 100 banking and cryptocurrency applications. The malware, which researchers from Amsterdam-based security firm ThreatFabric are calling Vultur, is among the first Android threats…
Enlarge Getty Images Venmo, the popular mobile payment service, has redesigned its app. That's normally news you could safely ignore, but this announcement is worth a closer look. In addition to making some navigational tweaks and adding new purchase protections, the PayPal-owned platform is finally shutting down its global social…
Enlarge Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Is Our Machine Learning? Sean Gallagher and an AI expert talk about our crazy machine-learning adventure Ars AI headline experiment finale—we came, we saw, we used a lot of compute time Our AI headline experiment continues: Did we break the machine? Feeding the machine:…
Tweet ZOTAC GeForce RTX 3080 Ti AMP HOLO review In this review, we test the ZOTAC GeForce RTX 3080 Ti AMP HOLO, a premium aimed product the offers fairly common performance results, and acoustic levels. There's no denying it. It has been a bizarre year if we're talking computer components alone,…
Enlarge Getty Images Federal prosecutors and attorneys on Friday charged a man with securities fraud for allegedly selling insider stock information on the dark web site AlphaBay. The defendant also sold information through multiple criminal marketplaces and through an encrypted messaging platform. In an indictment filed in federal court in…
Enlarge Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Google has given the boot to nine Android apps downloaded more than 5.8 million times from the company's Play marketplace after researchers said these apps used a sneaky way to steal users' Facebook login credentials. In a bid to win users’ trust and lower…
Enlarge A Wall Street regulator has ordered the retail trading platform Robinhood to pay more than $70m in penalties for causing what it described as “widespread and significant” harm to its customers. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (Finra) announced on Wednesday that it was fining Robinhood $57m and ordering it…
Enlarge Getty Images The nation-state hackers who orchestrated the SolarWinds supply chain attack compromised a Microsoft worker’s computer and used the access to launch targeted attacks against company customers, Microsoft said in a terse statement published late on a Friday afternoon. The hacking group also compromised three entities using password-spraying…
Enlarge / John McAfee on his yacht off the coast of Cuba in 2019. Adalberto ROQUE / AFP / Getty John McAfee—the antivirus tycoon whose eccentric and often illegal antics on yachts and in tropical rain forests came to define him in later years—took his own life in a Spanish…