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Threat actors have begun using progressive web applications to impersonate banking apps to steal credentials from Android and iOS users. Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are cross-platform applications that can be installed directly from a browser and provide a native-like experience through features such as push notifications, access to device hardware, and background data sync. Using these types of apps in phishing campaigns can help them avoid detection, bypass app installation restrictions, and gain access to dangerous permissions on the device without displaying standard prompts to the user that might arouse suspicion. The technique was first identified in Poland in July…
Getty Images Phishers are using novel tactics to trick iOS and Android users into installing malicious apps that circumvent the safety guardrails built by Apple and Google to prevent fraudulent apps. Both mobile operating systems employ mechanisms to keep users away from apps that steal personal information, passwords, and other sensitive data. iOS prohibits the installation of all apps other than those available in the App Store, an approach popularly known as the Walled Garden. Android, on the other hand, is configured by default to only allow apps available in Google Play. Sideloading, or the installation of apps from other…
Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated who the school system's superintendent is.FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. — Fairfax County Public Schools saw little change in some subjects on standardized tests for the 2023-2024 school year, while FCPS saw declines in English writing and history scores. According to Virginia Department of Education Data FCPS' English reading pass rate, released Tuesday, was 78 percent, unchanged from last year. In math, the pass rate was 76 percent, up one point from last year. Just 28 percent of students passed written English, nearly half of last year's 57 percent and down from 78 percent…
Cerise HUA/Getty ImagesWhen you first started using Linux, the terminal was a necessity, but now GUIs are so advanced, user-friendly and powerful that you may never touch a terminal window once you start using Linux.Plus: 10 Linux Keyboard Shortcuts I Rely on for Maximum EfficiencyBut if you actually need to run these commands, you'll need a better terminal app than the standard default that your distribution is likely to use.Luckily, there are plenty of options to choose from, and here are my five favorites (all free and installable from your distribution's default repositories):1. GuakeGuake is just so cool. It's a…
updateA critical configuration bug has been discovered affecting applications that use the AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) for authentication, dubbed “ALBeast,” which could lead to unauthorized access to business resources, data breaches, and data exfiltration.Miggo Research said in an Aug. 20 blog post that since discovering ALBeast this spring, the research team has identified more than 15,000 potentially vulnerable apps that use AWS ALB authentication features.AWS load balancers distribute incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as AWS EC2 Web Service instances. A flaw in ALBeast may allow authentication and authorization bypass for internet-facing applications that rely on ALB authentication.Liad…
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz's open admission and candidness about having two children with his wife through fertility treatments led to one of the most moving moments at the rally in Glendale, Arizona, as people chanted the name of his eldest daughter, Hope. The positive response to the candidates' debate on this topic underscores how Vice President Kamala Harris has won support from all corners of the Democratic Party, including moderate Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA), progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and even Sen. Joe Manchin (D-VA/IN), a former conservative who left the party this year.What's so encouraging about the Waltz family…
“For a moment, I enter their world. Like, if someone talks to me and I'm reading a book, I can't hear them,” said Aylin, an eighth-grader in the Pendergast Elementary School District in Phoenix, Ariz. “I can understand other people's cultures, what they celebrate, what they respect, what they believe, without having to ask them personally. It helps me empathize with other people.”I spoke with Aylin when my colleagues from Imagine Learning visited Pendergast to hear about educators' and students' experiences with Imagine Learning's EL education curriculum. Her words explain the transformative power of reading: Reading, unlike spoken language, is…
Gettysburg College has been awarded a $1.2 million grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Education-funded 21st Century Community Learning Center (21st CCLC) initiative to support the establishment of a new community learning center on the college campus designed to provide high-quality bilingual education programs to disadvantaged students and their families in Adams County, Pennsylvania. The center, which is expected to begin operations in September, will focus on providing comprehensive services, including academic support, arts and cultural enrichment, and counseling services.The effort is being spearheaded by Brenda Reyes Lua, associate director of the university's Center for Public Service (CPS). The center…
Specifics of continual backpropagationContinual backpropagation selectively reinitializes low-utility units in the network. Our utility measure, called the contribution utility, is defined for each connection or weight and each unit. The basic intuition behind the contribution utility is that the magnitude of the product of units’ activation and outgoing weight gives information about how valuable this connection is to its consumers. If the contribution of a hidden unit to its consumer is small, its contribution can be overwhelmed by contributions from other hidden units. In such a case, the hidden unit is not useful to its consumer. We define the contribution…
Keeping up with the ever-expanding world of consumer AI products is a dynamic, fast-moving job, whether you're building new time-saving workflows, exploring real-world uses, or trying out a new creative stack. But amid the constant onslaught of product launches, investment announcements, and hyped features, it's worth asking questions: Which of these AI apps are actually being used? Which actions and categories are gaining popularity among consumers? And which AI apps are people stopping and then starting to use again? Welcome to our third installment of the “Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps.” Every six months, we dig deeper into the…