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Mastermind of Twitter 2020 Hack Pleads Guilty and Faces up to 70 Years in Prison A U.K. national has pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy and fraud in the U.S. Department of Justice’s indictment of four individuals who allegedly perpetrated a July 2020 Twitter hack. The DoJ says that Patrick O’Connor bought access to one…

Why Honeytokens Are the Future of Cybersecurity The Future of Intrusion Detection The field of intrusion detection has remained under the radar for too long in the DevOps world. Honeytokens offers a proactive and simple solution to detect intrusions in the software supply chain as soon as possible. GitGuardian, a code security platform, recently launched…

Malware Campaign Targeting Central Asian Governments with Sophisticated DownEx DownEx malware leverages a previously unknown strain of malware dubbed DownEx. The HTA file, for its part, is designed to establish contact with a remote command-and-control (C2) server to retrieve a next-stage payload. Government organizations in Central Asia are the target of a sophisticated espionage campaign…

New Zero-Click Windows Vulnerability for NTLM Credential Theft Detailed This vulnerability, marked as CVE-2023-29324, is a zero-click vulnerability, meaning it can be triggered with no user interaction. It allows an attacker to craft a malicious URL that can sidestep internet security zone checks. Cybersecurity researchers have shared details about a now-patched security flaw in the…

Google Launches New Privacy, Safety, and Security Features Across Its Services At Google I/O, the company unveiled a slew of new privacy, safety, and security features. Among the new features, the most important one is an update to its Android operating system that allows users to better control location sharing through apps installed on their…

Encrypted Direct Messages Rolling Out to Verified Twitter Accounts First Twitter is officially beginning to roll out support for encrypted direct messages (DMs) on the platform, more than six months after its chief executive Elon Musk first teased the idea. DMs will appear as separate conversations in users’ inboxes and will be available to verified…

Google Just Added AI to Make Search Better At Google I/O today, the search giant announced that it will infuse results with generative artificial intelligence technology similar to that behind ChatGPT in order to improve search results. However, searching still involves typing a query and it still responds with links to websites, snippets of content,…

Google is racing to bring more AI to all of its products, including Android. The new suite of generative wallpapers for Android seem basic but use varying levels of AI. Google is eager to launch products based on generative AI and get it into the hands of potentially billions of people. Picture This The company…

What Google Announced at IO 2023 During the keynote address, Google announces that it will be releasing an Android tablet called the Pixel Tablet with a speaker dock that magnetically attaches toIt was announced at last year’s Google I/O Developer conference, and now it’s finally here. There’s Also news on the Pixel Auto team. Android…

Google’s new Project Starline prototype is a giant booth Google Google has revealed a smaller version of its Project Starline 3D telepresence technology at I/O. Previously, it had been described as a booth that was large enough to allow you to sit in and talk to holographic projections of another person. But this new version…