Senior writer at Forbes covering cybercrime, privacy and surveillance. For at least three weeks from the end of February till mid-March, a malicious GIF could’ve stolen user data from Microsoft ...

To access someone's data, an attacker would have had to create and share a malicious link or GIF that someone opened ... Teams feature will improve privacy in meetings Microsoft Teams adds DVR ...

The app already implements its GIF search in a privacy-preserving way, according to Signal founder Moxie Marlinspike. That means Facebook may not be able to get any data from Giphy GIFs shared on ...

Indeed, GIFs continue to be used for many purposes, which is why Google has launched the Data Gif Maker, a tool aimed at helping journalists and storytellers convey information visually through ...

Luckily, there may be a solution. Meet the Data GIF Maker, a new tool from Google that wants to help data scientists, journalists, and others who depend upon data to support their ideas better ...

Today, the team released a tool that allows journalists (and anyone else) to synthesize the Search data themselves—in the form of lively GIFs. The tool, appropriately called Data GIF Maker ...

A newly discovered vulnerability in popular Facebook Inc.-owned messaging service WhatsApp allows an attacker to obtain access and steal data by doing nothing more than sending a malicious GIF to ...

Google’s News Lab launched a new tool for making basic data GIFs today. While the Data GIF Maker is mostly geared toward journalists, anybody can use it to make some halfway interesting ...

Google’s new aide for journalists and storytellers is the Data GIF Maker, but its ease of use is matched by a sluggish, interminable wait for a conclusion. Google’s quirky tools are forever ...