Author Archives: TheGeek

Fever’s Aliyah Boston is different this season

Aliyah Boston keeps levelling up.  And the latest edition of the Indiana Fever center is pretty much unstoppable. So far this season, she’s taking shots and making plays that she rarely tried before, and she’s making them look easy. Boston always had a strong skillset, even back in college at South Carolina. But it feels… Read More »

Texas AG sues Meta over claims that WhatsApp doesn’t provide end-to-end encryption

The Texas Attorney General has sued Meta over allegations that the company’s WhatsApp messenger, used by more than 3 billion people, doesn’t provide the end-to-end encryption (E2EE) it has long claimed. Since at least 2016, Meta (then named Facebook) has said WhatsApp provides robust end-to-end encryption, meaning that messages are encrypted on a sender’s device… Read More »

A hacker group is poisoning open source code at an unprecedented scale

A so-called software supply chain attack, in which hackers corrupt a legitimate piece of software to hide their own malicious code, was once a relatively rare event but one that haunted the cybersecurity world with its insidious threat of turning any innocent application into a dangerous foothold in a victim’s network. Now one group of… Read More »