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FTC Slams Avast with $16.5 Million Fine for Selling Users’ Browsing Data

rooter / February 23, 2024

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has hit antivirus vendor Avast with a $16.5 million fine over charges that the firm sold users’ browsing data to advertisers after claiming its products would block online tracking.
In addition, the company has been banned from selling or licensing any web browsing data for advertising purposes. It will also have to notify users whose browsing data was

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Conspiracy Theories Run Wild Amid Mass U.S. Cell Outage

rooter / February 23, 2024

Wireless customers with AT&T, Cricket Wireless, T-Mobile, and Verizon all reported outages across the country this morning. And just like clockwork, some folks online pounced on the disruption as evidence of a global conspiracy.

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AT&T Says Outage Wasn’t Cyberattack Despite Widespread Conspiracy Theories Online

rooter / February 23, 2024

AT&T issued a statement Thursday night to explain that the telecom’s widespread network outage earlier in the day wasn’t caused by a cyberattack. Countless conspiracy theories emerged online Thursday morning as people naturally wondered why they’d lost service—theories that will hopefully be put to rest as AT&T…

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Elon Musk’s Battle with Swedish Unions Is Now Impacting Tesla’s Charging Stations

rooter / February 23, 2024

For the past several months, Tesla has been locked in a battle of wills with the labor unions of Sweden. The company’s refusal to ratify a collective bargaining agreement with a small number of workers associated with the Swedish union IF Metall has led to boycotts by other regional unions, turning what should have…

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CISA orders federal agencies to fix ConnectWise ScreenConnect bug in a week

rooter / February 23, 2024

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds ConnectWise ScreenConnect bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity

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Odysseus Lander Touches Down on the Moon

rooter / February 23, 2024

Intuitive Machines landed its Odysseus spacecraft on the Moon on Thursday at 6:23 p.m. ET, becoming the first private company to pull off a soft landing on the lunar surface.

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10 Tasty Horror Movies (Including Thanksgiving) Streaming on Netflix

rooter / February 23, 2024

Thanksgiving is killing it on Netflix—it’s currently ranked among the streamer’s top flicks. When one horror film does well, that’s great news for the genre at large, so if you head to the streamer for John Carver’s merry Massachusetts massacre, why not stick around and feast on these other titles, too?

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Dave Bautista Opens Up About His Relationship With Denis Villeneuve

rooter / February 23, 2024

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Pharmacy Delays Across US Blamed on Nation-State Hackers

rooter / February 22, 2024

Healthcare tech provider Change Healthcare says a suspected nation-state threat actor breached its systems, causing pharmacy transaction delays nationwide.

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Hubris May Have Contributed to Downfall of Ransomware Kingpin LockBit

rooter / February 22, 2024

The most prolific ransomware group in recent years was on the decline at the time of its takedown, security researchers say.