Amazon calls PayPal’s $4 billion Honey browser add-on a ‘security risk’

In the warning it showed to buyers, Amazon wrote: “Honey tracks your private shopping behavior, collects data like your order history and items saved, and can read or change any of your data on any website you visit.” Politico’s Ryan Hutchins tweeted a screenshot of […]

India’s top court rules indefinite internet shutdown in Kashmir unwarranted and amount to abuse of power

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Iranian Hackers Have Been ‘Password-Spraying’ the US Grid

In the wake of the US assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and the retaliatory missile strike that followed, Iran-watchers have warned that the country could deploy cyberattacks as well, perhaps even targeting US critical infrastructure like the electric grid. A new report lends some […]