Discord’s age verification rollout has been met with… shall we say, dismay by many users of the platform, with many hunting for a better, more privacy-focused alternative. The news was even less well-received when Discord informed some UK users that they may be part of an “experiment” with an age verification provider called Persona, the […]
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Google says it’s disrupted a super-serious ‘global espionage campaign’ that uses *checks notes* Google Sheets to covertly intercept telecoms data
Google Sheets is perhaps my most disliked member of the Google Workplace suite. It’s not that it’s bad at what it does, more that it’s a deathly-dull spreadsheet editor that I loathe having to stare at for more than five minutes. But lo and indeed behold, because Google says it’s caught Sheets being used in […]
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Malwarebytes says a fake Google Account security page is distributing ‘what may be one of the most fully featured browser-based surveillance toolkits we have observed in the wild’
Cybersecurity provider Malwarebytes has thrown up a red flag regarding a fake Google Account security page that it says is distributing “what may be one of the most fully featured browser-based surveillance toolkits we have observed in the wild”, and it’s capable of infecting Windows, Apple, and Google Android devices. In a blog post breaking […]
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