Getty Images Welcome to the latest installment of Ask ZDNet, where we answer the questions that stump Alexa. In the mailbag this week: A reader works from two homes that are 1,000 miles apart. Is there a way to keep the content on his two PCs identical? How do I keep two PCs in sync […] More
Google Google on Thursday shared a few ways it’s using machine learning to improve the Chrome browser, including reducing the number of annoying notifications that pop up. All of the latest updates are all powered by on-device machine learning models, so user data doesn’t have to leave the device. For a less disruptive web browsing […] More
NurPhoto / Getty About once a day I get a message from someone asking for my help with restoring their Instagram account. Like me, they did all the right security things. They used two-factor authentication (2FA). They jumped through the hoops to restore their hacked Instagram account. None of it worked, so they ask me […] More
Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto A joint research effort has led to the discovery of Symbiote, a new form of Linux malware that is “almost impossible” to detect. On Thursday, researchers from BlackBerry Threat Research & Intelligence team, together with Intezer security researcher Joakim Kennedy, published a blog post on the malware – dubbed Symbiote because of […] More
The United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) has added 36 new flaws to its catalog of vulnerabilities that are known to be exploited by cyber criminals. The CISA alert warns that the vulnerabilities are a frequent attack vector for malicious attackers and pose “significant risk”. Organisations, particularly those associated with federal government, are urged […] More
Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto Poor identity, access and credential management is the biggest cybersecurity challenge for cloud computing, after the shift to remote working has redefined the workplace and changed priorities around the use of cloud applications and services, warns new research. Special Feature According to a survey of 700 industry experts on security issues in […] More
Axon Taser maker Axon is walking back plans to make a taser-equipped drone after nine members of its AI Ethics board resigned. Axon, a technology company known for developing tasers and products for police and the military, wanted to market the product as a means of stopping mass shootings. Pushback from the ethics AI Ethics […] More
By Jiap — Shutterstock It has been a totem of the cryptocurrency community that the numeric addresses of Bitcoin and other wallets will protect the identity of those using them to buy and sell. A new paper, released this week by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University, has shattered that presumed anonymity. […] More
