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Amer Owaida • 07 Sep 2020 • 3 min. read
Kids Online
TikTok Family Pairing: Curate your children's content and more
Digital Security
Microsoft debuts deepfake detection tool
Social Media
Houseparty – should I stay or should I go now?
With TikTok being all the rage especially with teens, we look at a feature that gives parents greater control over how their children interact with the app
Amer Owaida • 07 Sep 2020
As the US presidential election nears, the company’s new tech should also help assure people that an image or video is authentic
Amer Owaida • 03 Sep 2020
What’s the benefit of deleting your Houseparty – or any other unused – account, rather than just uninstalling the app?
Jake Moore • 03 Sep 2020
Norway’s parliament struck by hackers
Unknown threat actors were able to exfiltrate information from the email accounts of several parliamentarians
Amer Owaida • 02 Sep 2020
Security flaw allows bypassing PIN verification on Visa contactless payments
The vulnerability could allow criminals to rack up fraudulent charges on the cards without needing to know the PINs
Amer Owaida • 31 Aug 2020
Cybercrime
DDoS extortion campaign targets financial firms, retailers
The extortionists attempt to scare the targets into paying by claiming to represent some of the world’s most notorious APT groups
Amer Owaida • 27 Aug 2020
New Chrome, Firefox versions fix security bugs, bring productivity features
Chrome gets a new way of managing tabs while Firefox now features a new add-ons blocklist
Amer Owaida • 26 Aug 2020
COVID-19
FBI, CISA warn of spike in vishing attacks
Cybercriminals take aim at teleworkers, setting up malicious duplicates of companies' internal VPN login pages
Amer Owaida • 25 Aug 2020
Cybercrime, Business Security
Cyber attacks: Several Canadian government services disrupted
Several services, including the national revenue agency, had to be shut down following a series of credential-stuffing attacks
Gabrielle Ladouceur Despins • 24 Aug 2020