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Some Florida residents may be keeping a close eye on their finances after a security incident. Researcher Kamran Mohsin tells TechCrunch that Florida's Department of Revenue website had a flaw that exposed hundreds of filers' bank account and Social Security numbers. Anyone who logged in to the state business tax registration site could see, modify and even delete personal data just by modifying the web address pointing to a taxpayer's application number — you just needed to change the digits in the link. There were over…

Meta's Pixel tracking tool is causing more headaches, this time for people filing their taxes online. The Markup has discovered that large tax prep services like H&R Block, TaxAct and TaxSlayer have been sending users' sensitive contact and financial information to Facebook through the Pixel. This sometimes included income data, filing statuses and even kids' college tuition grants. Intuit's TurboTax also uses the Pixel to send data, although that's limited to usernames and the last sign-in dates for given devices.…

Never put user names, passwords, or API keys/secrets in your code. Leverage Environment Variables to keep your data safe.Photo by regularguy.eth on UnsplashNote: This article advises a safe way to store and retrieve sensitive data from Environment Variables when developing locally. When working in corporate environments, follow recommended best practices from your company.If you’ve ever worked with any API (such as Twitter) or tried to connect to any remote data source, you’ve probably come across the need to pass in…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Being an intercultural citizen—someone who supports the principle of a multicultural state and also demonstrates positive personal attitudes towards diversity —is considered essential from a human rights perspective. What kind of learning best supports its development? To try to answer this question,…

“The whole world is watching! The whole world is watching!” chants a group of student protesters – “yippies”, in the eyes of suspicious, coiffed lawyers – in the opening scene of Call Jane, screenwriter Phyllis Nagy’s meticulous, if not revelatory, film on an underground network of abortion providers in Chicago. It’s August 1968, five years before Roe v Wade, and the energy is combustible enough to ruffle even Joy (Elizabeth Banks, a fascinating mix of softness and steel), a suburban housewife pregnant with her second…

Before you activate the Personal Vault, you should protect your Microsoft account as well as OneDrive access with the right type of multi-factor authentication, such as an authenticator app or a physical security key. In this case, use the Microsoft Authenticator app, which you can set up to send a notification to your mobile device when you want to unlock your Personal Vault. Turn on the Personal Vault. Screenshot by Lance Whitney/ZDNETAlso: Multi-factor authentication: How to enable 2FA to step up your security …

Meta Platforms Inc's independent oversight board said that starting this month it can decide on applying warning screens, marking content as "disturbing" or "sensitive." The board, which already has the ability to review user appeals to remove content, said it would be able to make binding decisions to apply a warning screen when "leaving up or restoring qualifying content," including to photos and videos. Separately, in its quarterly transparency report, the board said it received 347,000 appeals from Facebook and…

However, staff, led by reformed fraudster Tony Sales, managed to convince half of those they spoke with to share sensitive information – before later explaining how it could be used to defraud them.Members of the public readily gave the reformed con-artist important personal information including their names, address, phone numbers, and even date of birth – all of which could be valuable information to fraudsters.It comes after a survey of 2,000 adults found two in five (39 percent) believe social media has made it normal…

with an Apple Silicone M1 chip and MacOS Monterey (v 12.6). I would highly recommend you test out this process on a folder that doesn't contain any important documents. Once you know how to successfully encrypt folders, you can then do so with those folders that do contain important information. With Disk Utility open click File > New Image > Image from Folder. When the folder picker popup appears, navigate to and select the folder you want to encrypt, and click Choose. In the resulting popup window, do…

From the first scene, Till is haunted with grief. Fourteen-year-old Emmett Till (Jalyn Hall) sits in the front seat of a car with his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley (Danielle Deadwyler). The camera swirls up and around the smiling pair – director Chinonye Chukwu’s camera often orbits Mamie, the center of a universe of loss – as an upbeat 50s song blares from the radio. They laugh along, then the music sours and distorts as if in a horror movie, the sound warped by future sadness. It’s 1955, weeks before Emmett’s murder by two…