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Milamai/Getty Images A series of new features rolling out today will hopefully make your Android device less attractive to thieves. Earlier this year, Google teased a new AI-powered Theft Detection Lock for Android phones. Google explained that the feature uses motion sensors to detect theft in progress and immediately locks the screen. That feature is […] More
Milamai/Getty Images A series of new features rolling out today will hopefully make your Android device less attractive to thieves. Earlier this year, Google teased a new AI-powered Theft Detection Lock for Android phones. Google explained that the feature uses motion sensors to detect theft in progress and immediately locks the screen. That feature is […] More
Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images If you’re a Gmail user (there are nearly 2 billion of us), you’ll want to be aware of a new “super realistic AI scam.” In a recent blog post, Microsoft solutions consultant Sam Mitrovic shared how he recently encountered a scam attempt that was surprisingly real. Also: Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine […] More
MF3d/Getty Images Organizations are turning to automation and artificial intelligence (AI) to cope with a complex and expanding threat landscape. However, if not properly managed, this can have some drawbacks. In a video interview with ZDNET, Daniel dos Santos, senior director of security research at Forescout’s Vedere Lab, stated that generative AI (gen AI) helps […] More
Floriana/Getty Images The Internet Archive is slowly starting to recover from a recent DDoS attack that clobbered the main site and its subsidiary sites. Early Monday, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle posted on X that the Wayback Machine is back online — but with a couple of constraints. First, the site is operating in a provisional, […] More
Floriana/Getty Images The Internet Archive is slowly starting to recover from a recent DDoS attack that clobbered the main site and its subsidiary sites. Early Monday, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle posted on X that the Wayback Machine is back online — but with a couple of constraints. First, the site is operating in a provisional, […] More
The latest Rufus release replaces the Windows Setup executable with this wrapper. Screenshot by Ed Bott/ZDNETMicrosoft really, really, really doesn’t want you to upgrade your old Windows 10 PC to Windows 11. That’s the logic behind the strict hardware compatibility requirements the company imposed when it launched the new operating system in 2021. If you try to install Windows 11 on a computer with a CPU from 2018 or earlier, you get an error message, along with a suggestion that maybe you should buy a new PC.The result, of course, is a thoroughly predictable cat-and-mouse game between Redmond and the Windows enthusiast community. The owners of those “incompatible” PCs find ways to work around those restrictions, and Redmond finds a way to make those workarounds more difficult.Also: Microsoft cracks down on Windows 11 upgrades for ‘incompatible’ PCs, but there’s a workaroundWith the public release of the most recent feature update to Windows 11, version 24H2, Microsoft tightened the compatibility checks that Windows Setup runs when performing an upgrade. Those new restrictions blocked one widely used workaround, which used the open-source Rufus utility to create installation media that allows Windows 11 upgrades on incompatible hardware.The new restrictions lasted for less than one week, as the community discovered that you could work around Microsoft’s compatibility blocks by manually entering a series of commands to tweak the registry. And now the developer of Rufus, Pete Batard, has released a new beta version of the utility that automates that process. More
WhataWin/Getty Images Another day, another data breach. This latest one affects customers of one of the largest investment firms in the US. In a Wednesday filing with several state attorneys general, Fidelity Investments revealed that it was hit by a breach on August 17, which the firm detected on August 19. A letter sent to […] More
