ā¢ Signal calls now work a lot more like Meet and Zoom (Signal calls now work a lot more like Meet and Zoom - The Verge): New features like call links and emoji reactions could make taking calls on Signal more appealing.
ā¢ FBI, CISA say Chinese hackers breached multiple US telecom providers in targeted attack (FBI, CISA say Chinese hackers breached multiple US telecom providers in targeted attack | Fox News): Bad actors swiped cellphone customersā call record data, including a ālimited numberā of government and political figures.
ā¢ FBI issues warning as crooks ramp up emergency data request scam (FBI issues warning as crooks ramp up emergency data request scams ā¢ The Register): Cybercrooks abusing emergency data requests in the US isnāt new, but the FBI says itās becoming a more pronounced issue as the year draws to a close.
ā¢ ICE Started Ramping Up Its Surveillance Arsenal Immediately After Donald Trump Won (ICE Started Ramping Up Its Surveillance Arsenal Immediately After Donald Trump Won | WIRED): US Immigration and Customs Enforcement put out a fresh call for contracts for surveillance technologies before an anticipated surge in the number of people it monitors ahead of deportation hearings.
ā¢ The US government wants devs to stop using C and C++ (The US government wants developers to stop using C and C++ ā¢ The Register): CISA & FBI announced they were doubling down on their efforts to persuade software manufacturers to abandon āmemory-unsafeā programming languages such as C and C++ for new code at least.