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A recent study that looked at the effects of internet shutdowns amid civil unrest found that they aren’t effective at suppressing protest. Continue reading Internet Shutdowns Don’t Help Authoritarians Stop Protests
The Amazon CEO testified before Congress that the tech giant has a policy against using third party seller data to help its private label business, but couldn’t guarantee it had never been broken. Continue reading Jeff Bezos Has No Idea How Often Amazon Rips Off Its Sellers
Today, we announce the launch of the next version of Digital Anarchist, our next-generation video platform, at digitalanarchist.com. The content is also available on the DevOps.com mobile app and OTT channels on Apple TV, Roku and Amazon Fire TV. Boast… Continue reading Digital Anarchist – Watch What’s Next in Tech
After exposing private tweets, plaintext passwords, and personal information for hundreds of thousands of its users, here is a new security blunder social networking company Twitter admitted today.
Twitter announced that the phone numbers and email ad… Continue reading You Gave Your Phone Number to Twitter for Security and Twitter Used it for Ads
Read the full memo written by a departing Google employee on his experience as a Black person at Google. Continue reading Here’s the Memo About the ‘Burden of Being Black at Google’
Yesterday, Python’s core development team announced that PyPI now offers two-factor authentication to increase the security of Python package downloads and thus reduce the risk of unauthorized account access. The team announced that the 2FA will … Continue reading PyPI announces 2FA for securing Python package downloads
Yesterday Aleksa Sarai, Senior Software Engineer at SUSE Linux GmbH, notified users that the ‘ docker cp’ is vulnerable to symlink-exchange race attacks. This attack makes all the Docker versions vulnerable. This attack can be seen as a con… Continue reading All Docker versions are now vulnerable to a symlink race attack
A new study by researchers at Cambridge University’s Computer Laboratory has revealed that an attack called calibration fingerprinting or SENSORID, allows iOS and Android devices to be tracked across the internet. The researchers stated that this… Continue reading SENSORID attack: Calibration fingerprinting that can easily trace your iOS and Android phones, study reveals
Salesforce informed its customers that it was facing a major issue with its service, early Friday morning, and mentioned that it was working towards resolving the issue soon. The popular cloud-based software company experienced an outage due to its fau… Continue reading Salesforce suffers major outage providing data access irrespective of the permission settings
In a security update released on May 16, StackOverflow confirmed that “some level of their production access was gained on May 11”. In a recent “Update to Security Incident” post, Stack Overflow provides further details of the s… Continue reading Approx. 250 public network users affected during Stack Overflow’s security attack