Microsoft has released a preview of a new Microsoft Q&A service meant to help users find answers to technical questions. …read more Source:: ZDNet

A fake voice message lures victims to a fake Microsoft 365 login page that prompts them to enter credentials. …read more Source:: DarkReading

It is Halloween after all Global shipments of smartphones bucked the market’s downward trend in the third quarter of 2019 to increase by a paltry 1 per cent – the first signs of growth in two years.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Senior government officials in multiple U.S.-allied countries were targeted earlier this year with hacking software that used Facebook’s WhatsApp to take over users’ phones, Reuters reported Thursday, citing people familiar with the messaging company’s investigation. From a report: Sources familiar with WhatsApp’s internal investigation into the breach said a “significant” portion of the known victims…

A big space boulder scopes out the trick-or-treating situation here on Earth. Fortunately, it doesn’t knock on any doors. …read more Source:: CNet

Through the weekend Twitter has been a-titter with news coming out of Saintcon, the annual security conference in Provo, Utah. Now that the weekend is over we can finally get our hands on full hardware and software sources for the curvy, LED-covered badge we’ve been salivating over and a write up by its creators [compukidmike]…

Chinese state-sponsored hackers are attacking telecom networks to sniff out SMS messages that contain keywords revolving around political dissidents. …read more Source:: Threatpost

The American Civil Liberties Union on Thursday sued the Justice Department, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the FBI for records detailing their use of facial-recognition software, arguing that the agencies have secretly implemented a nationwide surveillance technology that threatens Americans’ privacy and civil rights. From a report: ACLU attorneys asked a federal court in Massachusetts…

Let’s all have a code audi- oh, wait, they did that already Encrypted email biz ProtonMail has open-sourced the code for its iOS app, having pre-emptively paid for a code audit that says there’s nothing wrong with it.… …read more Source:: Register

Suddenly, there are a lot of wireless earbuds to choose from. …read more Source:: ZDNet