Seemingly handy PDF and OCR app turns out to be a privacy horror show. …read more Source:: Threatpost

5G is great, but it’s a big Wi-Fi upgrade that’ll likely help you out sooner with faster speeds and longer range at home, school and work. …read more Source:: CNet

The issue impacts users of the vendor’s Cloud WAF product. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Verizon on Tuesday said it’ll begin automatically enrolling eligible Android phones in its free Call Filter service. The company said it’s making the move after the Federal Communications Commission in June voted to give wireless carriers greater power to “aggressively block” unwanted robocalls. From a report: “We know our customers are sick and tired of…

The blower-regulator wiring harness is to blame. …read more Source:: CNet

Of all of the ransomware variants spotted targeting victims in the first half of 2019, the infamous WannaCry was by far the most prevalent, according to Trend Micro’s detection data. …read more Source:: DarkReading

Uber and Lyft have slashed driver pay in recent years and now take a larger portion of each fare, far larger than the companies publicly report, based on data collected by Jalopnik. From a report: And the new Surge or Prime Time pricing structure widely adopted by both companies undermines a key legal argument both…

Starting a war over stopped trams? Unlikely, says intelligence boffin NATO’s secretary-general has once again declared that members of the alliance will respond with force to cyber-attacks, in line with Article 5 of its founding treaty.… …read more Source:: Register

[MisterM] seems to specialize in squeezing new electronics into old but good-looking technology. His latest creation focuses on a space-age specimen: an interesting car radio from 1963 that could be pulled out from the dashboard and taken along wherever. The beat goes on, thanks to a shiny built-in speaker on the bottom. He replaced the…

Bernie Sanders may not love how the media covers him, but he wants to save it anyway. His plan involves blocking future media mergers and a possible tax on Silicon Valley to support newsrooms. From a report: The proposal, rolled out in the Columbia Journalism Review on Monday, comes as Sanders and the Washington press…