security
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Yeah, So It Turns Out Rite Aid Has Been Using Face Recognition at Hundreds of Stores
Rite Aid used face recognition to scan the faces of every single customer who walked into hundreds of its stores in a program encompassing most of the past decade, Reuters reported on Tuesday.
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New Hack Can Trick Phone Power Bricks into Starting Fires
Your phone’s power brick is typically a relatively innocuous piece of tech, but recently, researchers at a Chinese security firm discovered a way to hack a fast charge power adaptor so that when connected to a phone, the power brick can melt the phone or even start a fire.
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Everything We Know About the Big Twitter Hack of 2020
An apparent cryptocurrency scheme that bombed Twitter Wednesday saw the accounts of high-profile brands, crypto exchanges, businesspeople, celebrities, and politicians compromised in an unprecedented hack that raises serious concerns about the security flaws of the platform and what information could have been jeopardized in the incident. Right now, details about the specifics of the hack…
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Wells Fargo Directs Employees to Delete TikTok, Citing Security Concerns
America’s fourth-largest bank, Wells Fargo, is barring the app TikTok on company devices and instructing any employees who have it currently installed to remove it immediately, citing privacy concerns.