Inside SearchGuard: How Google detects bots and what the SerpAPI lawsuit reveals

We fully decrypted SearchGuard, the anti-bot system protecting Google Search. Here's exactly how Google tells humans and bots apart.
Security Boulevard

Detecting browser extensions for bot detection, lessons from LinkedIn and Castle

Modern bot detection rarely deals with obviously fake browsers. Most large-scale automation today runs inside browser ...
Search Engine Land

Google launches Data Manager API

Google’s new Data Manager API gives advertisers a simpler, centralized way to feed first-party data into its AI systems. Google is rolling out a new Data Manager API that lets you plug first-party ...
Bleeping Computer

OpenAI discloses API customer data breach via Mixpanel vendor hack

OpenAI is notifying some ChatGPT API customers that limited identifying information was exposed following a breach at its third-party analytics provider Mixpanel. Mixpanel offers event analytics that ...
techtimes

Top iPhone Privacy Settings: How to Secure Your Data and Boost Apple Security Today

Your iPhone holds a detailed map of your life—from messages and photos to financial data and location history. Protecting that information is more important than ever as mobile privacy threats ...
Bleeping Computer

Malicious NPM packages fetch infostealer for Windows, Linux, macOS

Ten malicious packages mimicking legitimate software projects in the npm registry download an information-stealing component that collects sensitive data from Windows, Linux, and macOS systems. The ...
USA Today

DOGE put Social Security data of millions of Americans at risk, whistleblower says

WASHINGTON ― Personal information of more than 300 million Americans is at risk of being leaked or hacked after employees of the Department of Government Efficiency uploaded a sensitive Social ...
Geeky Gadgets

New Secure USB-C Charging Cables from Plugable : 240W Charging Without Data Risks

Can a single cable redefine both charging speed and device security? Plugable believes so with its newest lineup of high-wattage, charge-only USB-C cables. As concerns about data theft at public ...
The New York Times

DOGE Put Critical Social Security Data at Risk, Whistle-Blower Says

DOGE team members uploaded a database with the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to a vulnerable cloud server, according to the agency’s chief data officer. By Nicholas Nehamas ...
Government Technology

Congress.gov’s API Has Gone Dark, Impacting Data Access

Since Friday, developers who rely on Congress.gov’s official application programming interface (API) have been left staring at a dead end. Requests to api.congress.gov/v3 now spin into an infinite ...
Raleigh News & Observer

NC elections board launches plan to retrieve missing data from nearly 200,000 voters

The North Carolina State Board of Elections launched a comprehensive “Registration Repair” plan on Thursday to retrieve missing information from over 100,000 voters, with its director rebutting ...