Apple agrees to pay out $25M to settle lawsuit over Family Sharing
Apple has agreed to pay out $25 million to settle a class action lawsuit over its Family Sharing feature, which lets users and up to five of their family members share access to apps, music, movies, TV shows and books that they purchase. The lawsuit, which was first filed in
Read moreCyber Security Today, Week in Review for the week ending Friday, Dec. 15, 2023
Welcome to Cyber Security Today. This is the Week in Review for the week ending Friday, December 15th, 2023. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in the U.S. In a few minutes Terry Cutler of Montreal’s Cyology Labs will be here to discuss several stories
Read moreInvestment in India is in free fall
Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. You shouldn’t compare apples to oranges, but similarly, comparing iPhones to Androids is a fool’s errand as well. Now that Apple is finally phasing out the Lightning connector after 11 years in favor of the
Read moreRobinhood is on a quest to dive deeper into crypto
The platform might not be as highly technical as one that’s crypto-focused, Robinhood is doing research to understand what customers want and are missing. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreUbiquiti fixes glitch that exposed private video streams to other customers
Ubiquity, the networking and video surveillance camera maker, has fixed a bug that users say mistakenly allowed them access to the accounts and private live video streams of other customers. Reports first emerged on Reddit that some customers received push notifications on their phones featuring Ubiquiti account-related information and private
Read moreTwitch cracks down on boobs again by rolling back its ‘artistic nudity’ policy
Days after freeing the (fictionalized) nipple, Twitch is backtracking on its “artistic nudity” policy that allowed streamers to show illustrated, animated or sculpted renderings of breasts, butts and genitals. The announcement comes days after Twitch announced sweeping updates to its sexual content policy, which streamlined the platform’s community guidelines and
Read moreMultisensory art exhibit at the Aga Khan Museum taps into AI, VR
It is called Night in the Garden of Love, is produced in partnership with Weils, the Centre for Contemporary Art in Brussels, and it combines traditional art with an obvious technology bent that, in the words of its creator, “transports visitors into new and imaginary worlds.” That creator is contemporary
Read moreSouthern Ontario school board acknowledges ‘cyber incident’
One of the biggest public school boards in Southern Ontario has publicly acknowledged a cyber attack, over a month after it was detected. The York Region District School Board, which covers an area stretching from Toronto in the south to Lake Simcoe in the north, with a student population of
Read moreDental benefits group notifying almost 7 million Americans of MOVEit data theft
Almost 7 million U.S. residents are being notified by a dental benefits provider that their personal information was stolen in one of the biggest single attacks involving the MOVEit file transfer application. Delta Dental of California and its affiliates, which provide dental benefits to individuals through commercial groups, said the
Read moreHackers abusing OAuth to automate cyber attacks, says Microsoft
Threat actors are misusing OAuth-based applications as an automation tool for authentication, says Microsoft. “Threat actors compromise user accounts to create, modify, and grant high privileges to OAuth applications that they can misuse to hide malicious activity,” the company said in a blog this week. “The misuse of OAuth also
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