Scammers have been caught using a clever sleight of hand to impersonate the website for the Brave browser and using it in Google ads to push malware that takes control of browsers and steals sensitive data. The attack worked by registering the domain xn--brav-yva[.]com, an encoded string that uses what’s known as punycode to represent …
Elena Lacey, Getty Images For at least a decade, privacy advocates dreamed of a universal, legally enforceable “do not track” setting. Now, at least in the most populous state in the US, that dream has become a reality. So why isn’t Apple—a company that increasingly uses privacy as a selling point—helping its customers take advantage …
If you’ve ever wondered about which programs are using your internet connection at any point in time, here’s one way to find out using Terminal. Open Terminal, in Applications > Utilities, and run this command: lsof -P -i -n | cut -f 1 -d ” ” | uniq When you press return, you’ll see a …
Enlarge / 2007-era Kindles had a pretty good fourteen-year run—but we imagine there are some 2016-era Kindle Oasis (8th-gen) owners feeling pretty salty about their free 3G broadband going away right now. This Wednesday, Amazon sent a notification email to customers who bought early Kindle e-readers. First- and second-generation Kindle and Kindle DX devices had …
The Huawei P50 Pro, in several colors. The front looks like every other smartphone on Earth. Huawei The back. Huawei This is a huge camera bump. That’s a main camera, a black and white camera, and a wide-angle camera on the top. The rectangular lens at the bottom is a periscope zoom camera. Huawei Here’s …
We’ve seen a surprising number of sales for Apple’s newest M1 MacBook Air, but today’s is better than ever: Amazon is selling the MacBook Air with an M1 processor and a 7-core GPU with 256GB of storage for just $850. We’ll say that again: You can save $150 on the cheapest MacBook Air for the …
Over the past few months, Apple has seemingly taken a much harder stance against online leakers, sending out cease and desist letters to social media accounts that post assorted rumors that quickly spread around the web. Now Apple has a message to go along with it: you’re not harming us, you’re harming the cases. In …
Gadgeteers always want to stay on the cutting edge. Unfortunately, the cutting edge seems to always be changing and becoming harder to stay on top of. One thing that won’t be going anywhere, however, is smart home technology. We’ve come a long way since the Disney Channel Original Movie Smart House, and while the film missed …
Open source packages downloaded an estimated 30,000 times from the PyPI open source repository contained malicious code that surreptitiously stole credit card data and login credentials and injected malicious code on infected machines, researchers said on Thursday. In a post, researchers Andrey Polkovnichenko, Omer Kaspi, and Shachar Menashe of devops software vendor JFrog said they …
Among the plethora of video editing software in the market a few stand out from the crowd. Some boast their advanced capabilities while others are geared towards users looking for basic functions. None, however, bridge the gap between professional editing and consumer friendliness quite like PowerDirector 365. Now Available Exclusively for Mac Users Previously only …