Qualcomm, which makes chips for smartphones, said it will lay off 226 workers in San Diego later this year, according to a California WARN notice published this week. The layoffs, which were first reported by the San Diego Union-Tribune, will take effect the week of November 12. The layoffs affect employees at 16 facilities across […]
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On Monday, Apple released its latest computer operating system update called macOS 15, or Sequoia. And, somehow, the software update has broken the functionality of several security tools made by CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Microsoft, and others, according to posts on social media, as well as messages posted in a Mac-focused Slack channel. At this point, it’s
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Passkeys, the digital credentials that let you sign into apps and websites without entering a password, are getting easier to use for Chrome users. Starting today, you can save passkeys to Google Password Manager, Google’s password manager built into Chrome on Windows, macOS, and Linux, so that your passkeys automatically sync across all your signed-in
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For as long as coding has existed, we have had a plethora of methods — white-hat testers, software, and more — to validate that code works as it was intended. These days, all that has been kicked into high gear: the growing sophistication of security breaches has turned the process of software verification into a
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark plans to donate $100 million to further strengthen U.S. cybersecurity, addressing what he sees as a growing threat from foreign governments, he tells the WSJ. Half the funds will focus on protecting power grids and other infrastructure from cyberattacks; half will be earmarked to educate people about so-called cybersecurity hygiene. Newmark,
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Last week, the FBI took control of a botnet made up of hundreds of thousands of internet-connected devices, such as cameras, video recorders, storage devices, and routers, which was run by a Chinese government hacking group, FBI director Christopher Wray and U.S. government agencies revealed Wednesday. The hacking group, dubbed Flax Typhoon, was “targeting critical
Discord, one of the largest group chat apps in the world, announced on Tuesday that audio and video calls inside the platform will now be end-to-end encrypted (E2EE), meaning even Discord won’t know what users in those conversations talk about. In the last 10 years, end-to-end encrypted chat went from being a rare exception —
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U.S. tech giant Cisco has let go of thousands of employees following its second layoff of 2024. The technology and networking company announced in August that it would reduce its headcount by 7%, or around 5,600 employees, following an earlier layoff in February, in which the company let go of about 4,000 employees. As TechCrunch
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When it comes to talent shortages in tech, cybersecurity is one of the biggest and most urgent that needs filling. Malicious attacks are on the rise, and the techniques being used to worm into networks are also scaling up. Yet the World Economic Forum recently found that there are 4 million positions unfilled globally —
EasyDMARC, a B2B SaaS startup out of Armenia that aims to simplify email security and authentication, said it has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by New York-based Radian Capital. DMARC is a technical standard that is designed to protect the senders and recipients of email from spam, spoofing and phishing. This “Domain-based
