Author: InfoForTech

WhatsApp is adding three new security features designed to make account takeovers and scam calls harder to pull off. The new protections cover authentication, account access, and social engineering. WhatsApp is upgrading two-step verification, allowing more than one passkey per account, and adding caller context for numbers that aren’t saved in a user’s contacts. The changes matter because compromising a WhatsApp account does not always require breaking its encryption. Attackers can instead target the authentication and recovery process or persuade users to hand over access themselves. WhatsApp 2FA gets a boost WhatsApp is strengthening its existing two-step verification by replacing…

With primary elections in the key 2026 battleground states largely complete, Democrats have emerged with several open paths to take the majority in the US Senate.The basic contours of the national map remain uphill for Democrats. They currently hold 47 seats in the Senate, meaning they need to flip four Republican seats and hold their current ones, including in Michigan and Georgia, which President Donald Trump won in 2024.But presiding over an unpopular Iran war that has dragged on for six months and resulted in high gas and grocery prices, Trump’s approval rating is now consistently below 40 percent, a…

Netflix is the exclusive home of the GTA VI trailer for six hours on Thursday. Netflix Netflix has paid an undisclosed but likely ludicrous amount of money to be the exclusive host of a new, extended-look Grand Theft Auto VI trailer on Thursday, August 27 — for a total of six hours. After that period of time has expired, the trailer will go live on Rockstar’s YouTube channel, where the masses will be able to watch it without a streaming subscription. The trailer is titled Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look, and it will be available on Netflix…

Security operations startup Mate Security Ltd. today launched Gamebooks, a set of structured investigation procedures that govern what its artificial intelligence agents are allowed to do while working an alert. Mate is aiming Gamebooks at two failures that have shaped security automation. Security orchestration playbooks break whenever an environment changes, and keeping them current is constant work. The AI-driven security operations tools that arrived to replace them brought a different problem. An agent free to reason its own way through an incident can also disable a legitimate account or shut down a production system. Most deployments handle that risk by…

Today, anyone with a large enough artificial intelligence model can generate millions of new material designs in minutes. Unfortunately, that hasn’t led to a huge leap in the number of new materials being used to improve the performance of products like computer chips and rockets.One reason for the translation gap is that current models don’t reliably factor in the chemical stability of the materials they generate, and unstable materials aren’t very useful in the real world. That forces industries to allocate huge computational budgets to screening out all the unstable materials they generate, in some cases leaving behind a tiny…

Instagram and Facebook’s parent company, Meta, has struck a deal with the 29 US states currently suing the tech giant for intentionally designing its social media platforms to be addictive and harmful to children and teens. Reuters first reported the settlement Wednesday, saying the company could pay up to $16.68 billion, which is less than 10% of its 2025 annual revenue ($201 billion). The settlement allows CEO Mark Zuckerberg and the company to avoid a high-stakes trial, whose consequences could have remade how the tech industry operates. The proposed agreement will need to be approved by the court, but it…

Is this actually a breach?Correlated endpoint, network, identity, cloud, behavioral, deception, and threat intelligence evidenceWhether to escalate from a security incident into the formal breach processWhere did the attacker enter and how far did they get?Session history, process activity, authentication behavior, lateral movement, exploited assets, command-and-control activityContainment scope and investigation prioritiesWhat data was affected?Content-aware network inspection, data movement, user activity, affected repositories, transfer destinations and sessionsLegal assessment, notification decisions and business impact analysisHas the attacker been contained?Endpoint status, network communication, compromised identities, cloud workload activity, persistence mechanismsWhether containment can move into eradicationIs it safe to recover?Retrospective searches, IOC sweeps, forensic…

CheQ launched CheQ UPI to bring credit card rewards to everyday RuPay transactions. Indian fintech app CheQ just launched CheQ UPI, targeting credit-savvy consumers across India. The new feature helps users link their RuPay credit cards directly within the app and earn rewards on everyday UPI payments. The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) fundamentally shifted consumer behavior when it enabled RuPay credit cards on UPI. Before that integration, consumers used physical credit cards for major purchases while relying on debit-linked UPI for small transfers. Linking credit lines to instant QR code scans unlocked credit access at millions of local…

You’re not going to believe this, but turns out you can’t always take criminals at their word. Actually, I’ll walk that back a bit as it may not even be the cybercrime guys who got this wrong, but it all starts here: 🚨Cyber Alert ‼️🇺🇸US – 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗵𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘁ShinyHunters hacking group claims to have compromised Carhartt and allegedly stolen more than 50 GB of compressed data containing millions of customer records, employee information, customer metadata, loyalty-related information, and… pic.twitter.com/BvzsEQS54l— Hackmanac (@H4ckmanac) August 13, 2026 My usual Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) workflow after a breach emerges is to run our open source…

Staring at a pile of unedited clips is often the exact moment we give up on posting entirely. Instagram just tackled that problem head-on, by rolling out First Draft, a new one-tap tool that assembles your raw footage into a finished Reel in a few seconds. For now, First Draft is rolling out exclusively on iOS, with no word yet on when Android users might get access. How does First Draft create Reels for you on Instagram? The process starts just like making any other Reel. You select clips from your camera roll, but instead of manually trimming everything yourself,…