Identity management

We agree that using the same simple, easy-to-remember password for all your digital accounts is a terrible idea. Once someone knows your pet’s name, they can access your banking  info and even your social media. It’s become necessary to enlist the help of a password manager to keep track of all the dozens of login credentials needed for different apps and sites.Do We Have to Send Humans to Mars for Exploration?While a dedicated password manager remains the gold standard for managing your passwords, Google and Apple do a…

Elon Musk’s “free speech” app, X, will give a platform to almost anyone, and that includes the leaders of terrorist groups. Several leaders of Hezbollah, a designated terrorist group by the United States, are X Premium customers receiving paid services such as verification, boosted content, and longer posts, according to an investigation from the Tech Transparency Project (TTP) on Wednesday.Mr. Tweet Fumbles Super Bowl TweetX, formerly Twitter, provided premium services to accounts belonging to Hezbollah’s leaders, as…

Have you got a secret you don’t want anyone to know? Don’t tell any of humanity’s fancy new AI-powered assistants because the companies behind these new tools are probably keeping your data a lot longer than you think.Google’s Antitrust Case Is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to AIGoogle’s Gemini, the AI assistant formerly known as Bard, has received rave reviews, with many people hailing it as heads above OpenAI’s ChatGPT. But if you plan on using Gemini, it might be a good idea to give the privacy policy a quick…

Silverfort, the Israeli/U.S. startup, takes an all-in view when it comes to identity security in an organization. When it comes to potential breaches, people, machines, clouds, legacy and new apps can all be targets, and they can be exploited at any of the many points where they interact with each other. So the best way to protect against malicious exploits is to secure identity authentication between any and all of them. That thesis has been getting proven out and tested by businesses, and the startup says it is now…

Okta announced on Tuesday that hackers who breached its systems in October stole details about every user of the identity management service’s customer support platform, contradicting the company’s announcement in early November that only one percent of users were affected.Like It or Not, Your Doctor Will Use AI | AI UnlockedThe stolen data includes the names and email addresses of every client in Okta’s customer support database, as well as details about some of the company’s own employees. Okta reportedly sent its…

On Thursday, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee voted forward a bill that would force tech companies to report web users to the Drug Enforcement Agency if they suspected them of engaging in criminal drug activity. The controversial Cooper Davis Act, named so after a Kansas teenager who died of a fentanyl overdose in 2021, has rankled privacy advocates, who see the proposed legislation as a gateway to broad internet surveillance efforts by the federal government. Proponents of the bill say it would help crack down on…

On Thursday, Twitter said it had expanded its creator monetization fund to share more ad revenue with “creators.” Who is a Twitter creator these days? Well, some of the most politically divisive figures are making the most change in Musk’s new world order.Mr. Tweet Fumbles Super Bowl TweetThrough Musk’s mouthpiece account, the company claimed it would pay out $5 million in total to the lingering mob of tweeters still regularly posting on the platform. The ad-revenue sharing was first announced back in February and was…

Congress released a highly anticipated report on Wednesday detailing how major tax prep companies and big tech firms like Google and Meta, parent of Facebook and Instagram, “recklessly” shared the sensitive tax data of tens of millions of Americans without proper safeguards. The senators cited evidence from their report in a fiery letter to the IRS, FTC, DOJ, and Treasury Inspector General, whom they urged to fully investigate the matter and to prosecute companies found to have violated tax laws.Is Google's New $1,800…

There’s a widespread misconception about whether or not federal law protects your privacy. It doesn’t, at least not explicitly. Congress has managed to squander a decade’s worth of bipartisan agreement about the internet’s data problems. In the absence of legislation, one group of regulators recently stepped in to fill the void. It’s a ragtag group of government cowboys that calls itself the Federal Trade Commission.The FTC Just Prescribed a Can of Whoop Ass on Health DataOver the past year, the FTC picked up the few…

Amazon settled two different privacy cases with the Federal Trade Commission for just under $31 million Wednesday, agreeing to penalties for violating children’s privacy with its Alexa smart speakers and exposing Ring smart doorbell users videos to every employee at the company.Uh Oh, Amazon Bought Your Favorite Robot CompanyAccording to the FTC’s lawsuit against Ring, the company gave every single employee unrestricted access to users’ videos, including third-party contractors with no special training about handling the…