While it seemed like our national policy hysteria over TikTok had waned slightly in 2024, it bubbled up once again last week upon rumors that the White House is supporting a “welcome and important” new bill that would effectively ban TikTok from operating in the United States…
Google Home Speakers Allowed Hackers to Spy on Users…
According to a recent report, a bug in Google Home smart speakers allowed for the installation of a backdoor account that could be used to control the device and access its microphone feed. In short, hackers could take over Google’s devices to spy on users by listening in on their conversations…
China’s TikTok is Tracking Your Keystrokes on External Websites, Report Claims…
Yet, the American corporate and political classes refuse to take action against the China-owned app…
Joe Biden Enlists China Owned TikTok to Partner with Federal Voting Assistance Program in 2022 Midterm Elections…
It is well-known TikTok is owned by Beijing-based technology company ByteDance, which was founded in 2012 by Chinese billionaire Zhang Yiming…
Huge Data Leak of 1 Billion Records Exposes China’s Vast Surveillance State…
One billion resident records were allegedly siphoned from a police database…
It Looks Like China Did Have Access to U.S. TikTok User Data…
Despite the repeated assurances that TikTok’s parent company, the China-based ByteDance, isn’t checking out data collected about users in the U.S., it looks like the company did…
Study: China’s TikTok Can Bypass Apple and Google Privacy Protections, Access User Data…
Recent studies have revealed that the Chinese-owned social media TikTok can bypass security protections on Apple and Google app stores to gain full access to user data…
Google Says NSO Pegasus Zero-Click ‘Most Technically Sophisticated Exploit Ever Seen’…
Security researchers at Google’s Project Zero have picked apart one of the most notorious in-the-wild iPhone exploits and found a never-before-seen hacking roadmap that included a PDF file pretending to be a GIF image with a custom-coded virtual CPU built out of boolean pixel operations…
EU-Australia Trade Deal Runs Aground Over Submarine Furor…
France says pursuing negotiations is now ‘unthinkable.’…
Biggest Ransomware Attack Yet Crippled U.S. Hospitals Last Weekend…
One of the nurses, who works in a facility in North Dakota, said that computers slowed and then eventually simply would not turn on in the early hours of Sunday morning. “As of this a.m., all the computers are down completely,” the nurse said.”…
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