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WhatsApp mobile app adds new login option using email

11/13/202311/09/2023 Jesse Collins

The new option allows users to log in using an email address when a cellular connection is unavailable. The popular mobile app WhatsApp is rolling out a new login feature in which users will be able to use their email address to log in when they don’t have a cellular connection available. Accounts will still need to have an active phone number associated with them to be valid. That said, the new feature makes it possible to link an account on the mobile app that already has a phone number…

Canadian government bans WeChat Chinese app from its devices

11/10/202311/09/2023 Stephanie Beck

Chinese app ban - Image of Canadian federal government building

The country officially announced that the application is banned on all government gadgets. Canada’s federal government has announced that it is banning the popular Chinese app WeChat from all its devices. WeChat, often nicknamed the “everything app”, is like a combination of many other popular applications. The Chinese app is somewhat like a combination of Facebook, WhatsApp, Amazon and Tinder, all in one place. That said, there are some substantial concerns about the application among Western governments. Mainly, this has to do with the potential for the application to be…

General Services Administration adding facial recognition to Login.gov

10/31/202310/30/2023 Jennifer Goula

The GSA is altering its digital identity service to let users authenticate themselves based on ID. The General Services Administration (GSA) has announced that it is adding facial recognition to its digital identity services, letting users authenticate themselves based on using the technology to match their faces against a government ID already submitted to their accounts. The new service will provide a single sign-on services for Americans using Login.gov. In this way, Login.gov will accept facial recognition as an authentication against the image on an already-submitted government ID. Americans will…

ChatGPT artificial intelligence can look for updated information online

10/26/202310/25/2023 L. Green

Artificial intelligence - Robot using a computer

OpenAI temporarily disabled the feature in July but has now reintroduced it to the AI chatbot. OpenAI has announced that ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence chatbot, can browse the internet to offer users with updated information. The AI chatbot had previously been trained to provide users with information up to September 2021. The artificial intelligence chatbot has not been able to provide users with real-time information. However, this week, the Microsoft-backed company OpenAI announced on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, that the new AI chatbot update allows…

QR codes linked with 22 percent of phishing attacks

10/24/202310/24/2023 Sam Lambert

QR Codes - Phishing scam - digital security

New Hoxhunt data suggests that quick response barcodes are increasingly used in these attacks. QR codes are increasingly finding their way into use in phishing attacks, says data from the human risk management platform Hoxhunt, which spotted the barcodes in 22 percent of attacks of this nature on its client network during the first part of this month. The data was based on the results of the first weeks of October 2023 from a pool of almost 600,000 employees. Hoxhunt conducted a study on attacks made against almost 600,000 employees…