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Big Tech’s Mixed Response to U.S. Treasury Sanctions

krebsonsecurity.com Unknown 2025-08-13 22:06:05

In May 2025, the U.S. government sanctioned a Chinese national for operating a cloud provider linked to the majority of virtual currency investment scam websites reported to the FBI. But a new report finds the accused continues to operate a slew of established accounts at American tech companies — including Facebook, Github, PayPal and Twitter/X. On May 29, the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced economic sanctions against Funnull Technology Inc., a Philippines-based company alleged to pr

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'There is a problem': Facebook and Instagram users complain of account bans

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-08-15 00:59:08

'There is a problem': Facebook and Instagram users complain of account bans Just now Share Save Graham Fraser & Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporters Share Save Brittany Watson Brittany Watson started the petition calling for Meta to answer for banning people's accounts Facebook and Instagram users have been contacting the BBC complaining about having their accounts arbitrarily banned, and struggling to get them reinstated. Last week Meta - which owns the platforms - acknowledged a "technic

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'There is a problem': Meta users complain of being shut out of their accounts

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-08-15 02:13:37

'There is a problem': Meta users complain of being shut out of their accounts 45 minutes ago Share Save Graham Fraser & Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporters Share Save Brittany Watson Brittany Watson started the petition calling for Meta to answer for banning people's accounts Meta blamed a "technical error" when, last week, it admitted wrongly suspending some Facebook Groups. Since then, users of the world's most popular social media platform have got in touch with the BBC to say how, for

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AT&T rolls out Wireless Account Lock protection to curb the SIM-swap scourge

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-15 18:28:27

AT&T is rolling out a protection that prevents unauthorized changes to mobile accounts as the carrier attempts to fight a costly form of account hijacking that occurs when a scammer swaps out the SIM card belonging to the account holder. The technique, known as SIM swapping or port-out fraud, has been a scourge that has vexed wireless carriers and their millions of subscribers for years. An indictment filed last year by federal prosecutors alleged that a single SIM swap scheme netted $400 milli

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Cisco warns that Unified CM has hardcoded root SSH credentials

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-16 02:08:24

Cisco has removed a backdoor account from its Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM), which would have allowed remote attackers to log in to unpatched devices with root privileges. Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM), formerly known as Cisco CallManager, serves as the central control system for Cisco's IP telephony systems, handling call routing, device management, and telephony features. The vulnerability (tracked as CVE-2025-20309) was rated as maximum severity, and it is caused

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Meta users say paying for Verified support has been useless in the face of mass bans

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-08-16 10:54:35

When Meta launched its paid verification service, Meta Verified, in 2023, the tech giant promised users and businesses alike that part of the offering would include direct access to customer support. However, amid a mass ban wave affecting Facebook and Instagram accounts, as well as Facebook Groups, some Meta Verified paying subscribers say they’re receiving little to no help from Meta’s customer service reps, even when they’re facing their most serious crisis yet: a mistakenly suspended account

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Tired of surprise plan changes? AT&T’s new Wireless Account Lock feature has you covered

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-17 09:35:04

AT&T TL;DR AT&T has introduced a new Wireless Account Lock for postpaid and prepaid subscribers. The feature prevents anyone from making unauthorized changes to your account, such as billing updates, line changes, or device changes. It’s available as a toggle on the myAT&T app. AT&T is introducing a new Wireless Account Lock feature that lets you lock your subscriber account to prevent any unauthorized changes. People often complain about reps making changes to their accounts without their k

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Lock down your AT&T account to prevent SIM swapping attacks - here's how

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-08-18 02:06:00

AT&T SIM swapping is a popular type of fraud in which someone transfers your mobile number to a SIM in their own device. By intercepting any messages or phone calls sent to you, they're able to access your two-factor authentication codes and other sensitive information. Now, AT&T is offering customers a way to combat this kind of crime. Available starting today, Wireless Account Lock is an option for AT&T subscribers with postpaid or prepaid wireless accounts. Simply by turning on a switch in

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AT&T now lets you lock down your account to prevent SIM swapping attacks

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-08-18 14:36:28

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. AT&T is launching a new Account Lock feature that’s designed to protect wireless users against SIM swapping attacks. The feature, which you can enable from the myAT&T app, prevents unauthorized changes to your account, like phone number transfers, SIM card changes, and updates to billing information. SIM swapping attacks have become increasingly co

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AT&T's New Lock Option Thwarts Thieves Who Try to Access Your Account

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-18 17:00:02

AT&T is rolling out a new feature in its MyAT&T app intended to prevent nefarious individuals from accessing customers' online accounts. Wireless Account Lock, which has been rolling out in waves but will reach wide availability on Tuesday, disables some key actions that are frequently used to circumvent a legitimate owner's access to their account. This type of access is different from large data breaches, such as the two incidents that AT&T has recently agreed to settle for $177 million. Wire

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Think Your Password's Safe? Think Again. CNET Survey Reveals 49% of Americans Have Risky Password Habits

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-19 15:00:00

News flash: We have some risky password habits. CNET's latest survey shows that almost half of US adults (49%) have risky password habits. Even worse is that 24% admitted to using a password that's shared with another account. That's troubling to Attila Tomaschek, CNET software senior writer and digital security expert. "Reusing the same password across multiple accounts puts users at risk of getting their online accounts compromised through a credential stuffing attack," said Tomaschek. It

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Google Play Store preps a small but welcome UI change (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-21 02:53:22

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Play Store is preparing a redesigned account switcher. A prominent “Switch account” row appears below a greeting and your profile picture. The feature is enabled by flags in v46.8.29-31, mirroring recent rollouts in other Google apps. Many of us regularly switch between Google accounts, whether jumping from a personal to a work profile or checking a secondary account. Over the past couple of months, Google has been rolling out a redesigned acc

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I always install Chrome Beta on all my Android phones; here’s why

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-21 14:30:47

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority It’s been more than 13 years since Chrome first launched on Android. Fundamentally, the app hasn’t changed much in all these years: I type a URL and the page loads up. In all these years, though, Chrome hasn’t caught up with the rest of Google’s apps in one key feature: multiple account support. Most of the official Google apps let me quickly switch between different Google accounts, and they have done that for many years now, since 2010-2011, to be precise.

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Meta admits wrongly suspending Facebook Groups but denies wider problem

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-08-25 18:24:59

Meta admits wrongly suspending Facebook Groups but denies wider problem 36 minutes ago Share Save Graham Fraser and Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporters Share Save Getty Images Meta says it is "fixing" a problem which has led to Facebook Groups being wrongly suspended - but denied there is a wider problem with its platforms. In online forums, Group administrators say they have received automated messages stating, incorrectly, that they had violated policies so their Groups had been deleted

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Hacker 'IntelBroker' charged in US for global data theft breaches

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-26 05:54:22

A British national known online as "IntelBroker" has been charged by the U.S. for stealing and selling sensitive data from victims worldwide, causing an estimated $25 million in damages. The indictment, revealed today by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, accuses Kai West, a 25-year-old British man, of using the handle "IntelBroker" in a years-long campaign to steal and sell data from government agencies and networks, companies, and critical infrastructure. As se

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British hacker 'IntelBroker' charged with $25M in cybercrime damages

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-26 10:54:22

A British national known online as "IntelBroker" has been charged by the U.S. for stealing and selling sensitive data from victims worldwide, causing an estimated $25 million in damages. The indictment, revealed today by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, accuses Kai West, a 25-year-old British man, of using the handle "IntelBroker" in a years-long campaign to steal and sell data from government agencies and networks, companies, and critical infrastructure. As se

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Information has been permanently deleted, for small values of permanently

news.ycombinator.com Raymond Chen 2025-08-27 13:29:42

As part of a periodic purge of unused online accounts, I deleted my account from a company ten months ago. Let’s call that company Contoso. I received a confirmation that said, “Your personal information and items associated with your account have now been deleted. This action is permanent and cannot be reversed.” Yesterday, I got an email from Contoso informing me that they have updated their Privacy Policy. So I guess their “confirmation” of “permanent” and “irreversible” deletion of my pers

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PSA: Google’s Find Hub network lacks pairing lock, making tracker theft surprisingly easy

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-30 02:48:06

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Unlike AirTags, Bluetooth tags compatible with Google’s Find Hub don’t have a pairing lock. The trackers can easily be factory reset and paired with a new Android device. Reddit users spotted that the issue affects multiple brands, with Chipolo confirming the flaw. Google recently rebranded its Find My Device network as Find Hub, but an issue users are just discovering suggests that it still lacks a key security feature. Redditors have realized that F

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Donald Trump and Sean Hannity Set Off a Wave of Disinformation After Iran Bombing

wired.com David Gilbert 2025-09-01 05:33:31

President Donald Trump and his most vocal supporters have been using disinformation, fake videos, and mental gymnastics to try to spin the US military’s bombing of three Iranian nuclear sites as a complete and total victory that signals the end of a war instead of the beginning. On Saturday night, with the B-2 stealth bombers that dropped a dozen GBU-57 “bunker buster” bombs on the Fordow underground nuclear facility just beginning their flights back to the US, Trump declared the mission a comp

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184 million passwords leaked across Facebook, Google, more: What to know about this data breach

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-09-02 04:00:15

Moor Studio/Getty Images While it's not as large in scale as the latest data breach that leaked over 16 billion passwords, another incident has exposed passwords and other sensitive information across some of the most popular services on the internet. Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler revealed his discovery of a massive online database containing more than 184 million unique account credentials, in a report published late last month. Usernames, passwords, emails, and URLs for a host of

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Cross-Account and Cross-Region Backups with AWS Backup (and Friends)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-31 00:40:14

Reading Time: 30 minutes In today’s edition of “don’t trust LLMs”, we learn that despite what AI tells you, AWS Backup doesn’t support Cross-Account and Cross-Region backups. It supports Cross-Account copying and Cross-Region copying, but apparently not together. As part of Masset’s Data Protection and Disaster Recovery policies, we determined that having backups separated by both region and OU account was a good idea. This follows fairly closely to AWS’s recommended best practice of using a s

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Every Parent Should Know These 3 iPhone and iPad Parental Controls

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-01 23:00:12

As a parent of three young kids with limited screen time, the prospect of handing them their very own iPad or iPhone sends me into an anxiety-induced spiral. The prospect of having to micromanage screen time (and the overstimulated meltdowns that follow), plus trying to protect them on social media and against all the other horrors lurking online, is enough to make me want to swear off screens altogether. But I'm also a realist and know I can't fend off screens forever. In fact, their peak devic

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184 million passwords for Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and more leaked in massive data breach

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-09-04 06:52:00

JuSun/Getty Images Yet another data breach has exposed passwords and other sensitive information – but this one is a whopper. Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler revealed his discovery of a massive online database containing more than 184 million unique account credentials, in a report published late last month. Usernames, passwords, emails, and URLs for a host of applications and websites, including Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat, among others, were stored in

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Spotify’s HiFi lossless streaming might really, finally, actually be coming soon

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-09-05 06:40:35

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. We’ve been waiting for Spotify’s lossless streaming for more than four years, but there are some new and promising hints that the feature might finally arrive sometime soon. The X account for Spicetify, a command-line tool that lets you customize the Spotify client, says that a new version of Spotify includes some hidden mentions of lossless. In a screenshot the account share

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Bluesky briefly suspended JD Vance’s account after he joined

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-09-05 19:27:31

In Brief When U.S. Vice President JD Vance joined Bluesky on Wednesday evening, he got banned immediately. However, his account was restored after a while, with Bluesky saying that the ban was issued after the social network’s system that looks for impersonating attempts fired a warning. “Vice President Vance’s account was briefly flagged by our automated systems that try to detect impersonation attempts, which have targeted public figures like him in the past. The account was quickly restored

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What the Fed's Pause on Rate Cuts Means for Savings Account, CD Rates

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-07 10:15:00

Now's the time to take advantage of APYs as high as 5%. Skyhobo/Getty Images Federal Reserve policymakers voted to hold interest rates steady today, pausing rates for the fourth time this year. In its postmeeting statement, the Fed summarized its findings by noting slightly elevated inflation and a low unemployment rate, though the economic outlook remains uncertain. The latest decision means that households, which have been facing budget strains and increased living expenses, will continue to

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ChatGPT can now generate images in WhatsApp

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-07 22:53:14

Back in December, OpenAI launched its ChatGPT WhatsApp contact as part of its “12 Days of OpenAI” holiday announcements. And while this version of the chatbot is still more limited than what you get on the web or desktop, it is rolling out a useful new trick: image generation. Yep, people actually do this While the idea of texting ChatGPT over WhatsApp might seem a little odd, several WhatsApp-heavy users I’ve talked to say they love the convenience of having ChatGPT right there, without needi

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Nintendo will take your Switch 2 offline forever if you use a Mig flash cartridge

theverge.com Cameron Faulkner 2025-09-09 10:06:34

Some Switch 2 owners have received the error code 2134-4508, which results in their consoles being permanently banned from accessing any of its online services, as spotted by IGN. It’s not a ban hammer from sucking at Mario Kart World, thankfully for me, but one that’s targeting consoles that have used a Mig – a microSD card-equipped Switch cartridge that can be filled with copies of games. Running games on the Mig requires you to download them from others who have dumped files off of cartridge

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Threads adds new dedicated feed for fediverse content

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-10 02:41:06

Meta’s Threads is deepening its integration with the fediverse , a collection of decentralized social media platforms that includes Mastodon . Starting today, users who have enabled sharing to the fediverse in Threads will be able to see posts from federated accounts that they follow. These posts will now appear in a dedicated feed. From this feed, users can now search for federated users from within Threads. These posts will populate in reverse chronological order, ensuring the newest posts fr

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How to sign up for Amazon Prime

theverge.com Barbara Krasnoff 2025-09-10 06:47:05

is a reviews editor who manages how-tos and various projects. She’s worked as an editor and writer (and occasional sci-fi author) for more years than she cares to admit to. She can be found on Threads as @barbarask. It looks like Amazon has decided that two days isn’t enough for its annual Prime Day deal celebration. This year, the event will last a startling four days, running from 3AM ET on Tuesday, July 8th, through 3AM ET on Saturday, July 12th. (Why is it still called Prime Day instead of

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Latest Tech News

Big Tech’s Mixed Response to U.S. Treasury Sanctions

'There is a problem': Facebook and Instagram users complain of account bans

'There is a problem': Meta users complain of being shut out of their accounts

AT&T rolls out Wireless Account Lock protection to curb the SIM-swap scourge

Cisco warns that Unified CM has hardcoded root SSH credentials

Meta users say paying for Verified support has been useless in the face of mass bans

Tired of surprise plan changes? AT&T’s new Wireless Account Lock feature has you covered

Lock down your AT&T account to prevent SIM swapping attacks - here's how

AT&T now lets you lock down your account to prevent SIM swapping attacks

AT&T's New Lock Option Thwarts Thieves Who Try to Access Your Account

Think Your Password's Safe? Think Again. CNET Survey Reveals 49% of Americans Have Risky Password Habits

Google Play Store preps a small but welcome UI change (APK teardown)

I always install Chrome Beta on all my Android phones; here’s why

Meta admits wrongly suspending Facebook Groups but denies wider problem

Hacker 'IntelBroker' charged in US for global data theft breaches

British hacker 'IntelBroker' charged with $25M in cybercrime damages

Information has been permanently deleted, for small values of permanently

PSA: Google’s Find Hub network lacks pairing lock, making tracker theft surprisingly easy

Donald Trump and Sean Hannity Set Off a Wave of Disinformation After Iran Bombing

184 million passwords leaked across Facebook, Google, more: What to know about this data breach

Cross-Account and Cross-Region Backups with AWS Backup (and Friends)

Every Parent Should Know These 3 iPhone and iPad Parental Controls

184 million passwords for Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and more leaked in massive data breach

Spotify’s HiFi lossless streaming might really, finally, actually be coming soon

Bluesky briefly suspended JD Vance’s account after he joined

What the Fed's Pause on Rate Cuts Means for Savings Account, CD Rates

ChatGPT can now generate images in WhatsApp

Nintendo will take your Switch 2 offline forever if you use a Mig flash cartridge

Threads adds new dedicated feed for fediverse content

How to sign up for Amazon Prime

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