Email-to-Text Vulnerability: A 20-Year Security Flaw Exposed
A 20-year-old email-to-text feature has a security flaw allowing hackers to spoof sender IDs on Android/iOS. Major carriers are fixing it, with Verizon shutting down the feature by 2027.
Anam Hamid: Tech Journalist & Verizon Data Breach Concerns
Anam Hamid, tech journalist, focuses on smartphones & tablets. Concerns arise over a potential Verizon data breach affecting 61 million users, urging vigilance against phishing and unknown sources.
Internet Archive data breach exposes 31M users; DDoS attack too
Notably, the appeals court’s ruling rejects the Internet Archive’s argument that its lending practices were shielded by the fair use doctrine, which permits for copyright infringement in certain circumstances, calling it “unpersuasive.”