10 key announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2019 you should know about

10 key announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2019 you should know about

This year’s Microsoft Ignite was jam-packed with new releases and upgrades in Microsoft’s line of products and services. The company elaborated on its growing focus to address the needs of its customers ...

Five reasons to begin a Packt subscription

The Packt library provides you with all the tools you need to stay relevant in tech, whether you’re looking to brush up your PHP skills or take advantage of our learning paths ...
Universal Cylance Bypass Demo

A universal bypass tricks Cylance AI antivirus into accepting all top 10 Malware revealing a new attack surface for machine learning based security

Researchers from Skylight Cyber, an Australian cybersecurity enterprise, have tricked Blackberry Cylance’s AI-based antivirus product. They identified a peculiar bias of the antivirus product towards a specific game engine and bypassed it ...
British Airways set to face a record-breaking fine of £183m by the ICO over customer data breach

British Airways set to face a record-breaking fine of £183m by the ICO over customer data breach

UK’s watchdog ICO is all set to fine British Airwaysmore than £183m over a customer data breach. In September last year, British Airways notified ICO about a data breach that compromised personal ...
YouTube’s ban on “instructional hacking and phishing” videos receives backlash from the infosec community

YouTube’s ban on “instructional hacking and phishing” videos receives backlash from the infosec community

A month ago, in June, the company said in a blog post, “The openness of YouTube’s platform has helped creativity and access to information thrive. It’s our responsibility to protect that, and ...
Deceptive Design and Dark Patterns: What are they? What do they do? How do we stop them?

Experts discuss Dark Patterns and deceptive UI designs: What are they? What do they do? How do we stop them?

Dark patterns are often used online to deceive users into taking actions they would otherwise not take under effective, informed consent. Dark patterns are generally used by shopping websites, social media platforms, ...
Do Google Ads secretly track Stack Overflow users?

Do Google Ads secretly track Stack Overflow users?

A user by the name greggman has discovered a bug on Stack Overflow’s devtools website. Today, while working on his browser’s devtools website, he noticed the following message: Image source: Stack Overflow ...

Amazon is being sued for recording children’s voices through Alexa without consent

Last week, two lawsuits were filed in Seattle that allege that Amazon is recording voiceprints of children using its Alexa devices without their consent. This is in violation of laws governing recordings ...
Google researchers present Zanzibar, a global authorization system, it scales trillions of access control lists and millions of authorization requests per second

Google researchers present Zanzibar, a global authorization system, it scales trillions of access control lists and millions of authorization requests per second

Google researchers presented a paper on Google’s consistent global authorization system known as Zanzibar. The paper focuses on the design, implementation, and deployment of Zanzibar for storing and evaluating access control lists ...

Apple showcases privacy innovations at WWDC 2019: Sign in with Apple, AdGuard Pro, new App Store guidelines and more

Apple is getting pretty serious about user privacy. Last month, Apple had proposed a “privacy-focused” ad click attribution model to count conversions without tracking users. And just yesterday, Apple announced a host ...