security
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Stingy Slack Paid Researcher $US1,750 ($2,375) for Finding ‘Critical’ Bug
At times, we’ve come to you with stories about security researchers being paid thousands — and in some cases hundreds of thousands — of dollars by companies for finding critical bugs in well-known software or hardware. However, this time, the story is different. It’s about a company that was stingy, and that’s not cool.
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Researchers Find a Way to Copy Keys Using the Sounds They Make Inside a Lock
Keyed locks are relatively easy to pick if you’ve spent enough time mastering the skill. But researchers at the National University of Singapore have just made it even easier. If you can use a smartphone to record a sound, you can capture all the information you need to create a working duplicate of a key.
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Haunted by Regret Over Killing Vine, Twitter Purportedly Eyes Acquiring TikTok
While we’re all waiting to see if Microsoft succeeds in striking a deal to buy TikTok, bam! Surprise! Another big tech company, although not nearly as big as Microsoft, has apparently entered the fray, saying that it too is interested in arguably one of the hottest apps currently on the market. That company is purportedly…
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Trump Demands Microsoft Pay Off the U.S. Treasury to Secure TikTok Deal
Donald Trump is demanding the U.S. government somehow get a juicy cut of any deal for Microsoft to buy Chinese-owned video app TikTok ” or else.