A study found that phishing tests and other training programs designed to educate employees about online dangers reduced phishing success rates by just 2%
Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal : X: @argvee . LinkedIn: Matt Linton X: Heather Adkins / @argvee : Learn why those employee phishing tests are causing more embarrassment than education from @Go...
A look at Microsoft Office's Clippy, one of the most annoying assistants ever that has also remained among Microsoft's most recognizable brands over two decades
Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal : Threads: @robertcmcmillan . X: @garymarcus , @vmochama , and @glenkacher Threads: Robert McMillan / @robertcmcmillan : People hated Clippy; now they love him. ...
Internal docs show how antivax activists flooded vaccine content on Facebook with negative comments, despite Zuckerberg's push to promote COVID-19 vaccines
Internal company documents suggest that the company plays down awareness of its flaws. Kara Swisher / New York Times : The Endless Facebook Apology Katie Canales / Insider : Apple reportedly threatene...
Craig Federighi says introducing two similar features at the same time, iMessage protections for children and CSAM scanning of iCloud photos, caused confusion
no need to call it the privacy feature. We are not that gullible. All cloud service providers scan images but come on Apple Matthew Green / @matthew_d_green : In writing this op-ed for the Times, @ale...
Microsoft says an attacker gained access to one of its customer service agents and launched attacks against customers in a probe of suspected SolarWinds hackers
The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center is tracking new activity from the NOBELIUM threat actor. Tom Warren / The Verge : Why Windows 11 is forcing everyone to use TPM chips Malcolm Owen / AppleInsid...
A look at the proliferation of fake business listings and con artists on Google Maps, which experts estimate carries ~11M false listings on any given day
Data Sheet Joseph Zappa / Street Fight : Report: Fake Google Maps Listings Ensnare Consumers, Harm Legitimate Businesses Jason England / Android Central : Millions of fake businesses are currently lis...
A look at the proliferation of fake business listings and con artists on Google Maps, which experts estimate carries ~11M false listings on any given day
Data Sheet Joseph Zappa / Street Fight : Report: Fake Google Maps Listings Ensnare Consumers, Harm Legitimate Businesses Luke Stangel / Silicon Valley Business Journal : Are there really millions of f...
Facebook announces plans to launch Libra, a new cryptocurrency, and Calibra, a newly formed Facebook subsidiary to oversee financial services for Libra
The internet has changed nearly every aspect of our lives … Matt Levine / Bloomberg : Facebook Will Make the Money Now — Also cheating on tests and renting Buffett's house. Kari Paul / The Guardian ...
Snowden documents shed light on how states can compromise hardware supply chains, a practice undertaken by the US, France, Germany, China, and others
The Intercept : Tweets: @kimzetter and @bobmcmillan Tweets: Kim Zetter / @kimzetter : While Bloomberg's story about China hacking motherboards may well be completely (or partly) wrong, the danger of ...
Inside Google's 27-person in-house counterespionage team, the Threat Analysis Group, which tracks 200+ hacker groups, many of which are linked to US adversaries
Google likely has 'the most useful data set available to any private company for tracking state adversaries and intelligence services,' an expert says Tweets: @shanehuntley , @wsj , @bobmcmillan , and...