Hackers Rigged Hundreds of Ecommerce Sites to Steal Payment Info
About 500 ecommerce websites were recently found to be compromised by hackers who installed a credit card skimmer that surreptitiously stole sensitive data…
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The IRS Drops Facial Recognition Verification After Uproar
The Internal Revenue Service is dropping a controversial facial recognition system that requires people to upload video selfies when creating new IRS online…
An Insidious Mac Malware Is Growing More Sophisticated
Mac malware known as UpdateAgent has been spreading for more than a year, and it is growing increasingly malevolent as its developers add new bells and…
Kombucha Cultures Could Be the Key to Better Water Filters
The refreshing kombucha tea that's all the rage these days among certain global demographics might also hold the key to affordable, environmentally…
Physicists Created Bubbles That Can Last For Over a Year
Blowing soap bubbles never fails to delight one's inner child, perhaps because bubbles are intrinsically ephemeral, bursting after just a few minutes. Now,…
A Bug in iOS 15 Is Leaking User Browsing Activity in Real Time
For the past four months, Apple’s iOS and iPadOS devices and Safari browser have violated one of the internet’s most sacrosanct security policies. The…
Global Ship Traffic Could Imperil the Antarctic’s Biosecurity
Right now, the Antarctic and the waters around it are surprisingly free of invasive species. According to new research, however, that situation might change…
Apple Booted the Wordle Copycat Apps, But More Will Come
On Tuesday afternoon, searching for "Wordle" on the iOS App Store turned up a small handful of apps aping the name and gameplay of the simple word game that…
A Staple of Sci-Fi Space Travel Will Likely Remain a Fantasy
In Poul Anderson's 1970 novel Tau Zero, a starship crew seeks to travel to the star Beta Virginis in hopes of colonizing a new planet. The ship's mode of…
The End of BlackBerry Phones Is Finally, Truly Here
BlackBerry, the company that once dominated smart mobile devices, recently announced it is finally discontinuing key services that support its phones. As of…