Biz & IT / Information Technology
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Zero-click iMessage zero-day used to hack the iPhones of 36 journalists
Malicious messages installed spyware that recorded audio and pics and stole passwords.
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AT&T reportedly struggling to sell DirecTV at anything but a huge loss
AT&T told bidders it may cancel auction if offers don't improve, NY Post reports.
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How an obscure British PC maker invented ARM and changed the world
1987's Acorn Archimedes was the first production RISC-based personal computer.
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Russia’s hacking frenzy is a reckoning
US still has no good answer for "supply chain" attacks that let Russia run wild.
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Kazakhstan spies on citizens’ HTTPS traffic; browser-makers fight back
Kazakhstan gov required citizens to install self-signed root certificate.
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Microsoft president calls SolarWinds hack an “act of recklessness”
Of 18,000 backdoored servers, hackers followed up on only a few dozen.
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Microsoft is reportedly added to the growing list of victims in SolarWinds hack
Other reported victims include the Energy Department nuke security administration.
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SolarWinds hack that breached gov networks poses a “grave risk” to the nation
Nuclear weapons agency among those breached by state-sponsored hackers.
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Amazon’s answer to SpaceX Starlink delivers 400Mbps in prototype phase
Amazon offers peek into development of antenna for Project Kuiper user terminal.
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“Evil mobile emulator farms” used to steal millions from US and EU banks
Scale of operation is unlike anything researchers had seen before.
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Up to 3 million devices infected by malware-laced Chrome and Edge add-ons
Security firm identifies 28 malicious extensions hosted by Google and Microsoft.
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SolarWinds hackers have a clever way to bypass multi-factor authentication
Hackers who hit SolarWinds compromised a think tank three separate times.
War Stories: How Nintendo sold the NES to a skeptical country
Convincing the public to love home video games again after Atari's dramatic fall.
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~18,000 organizations downloaded backdoor planted by Cozy Bear hackers
Russia-backed hackers use supply chain attack to infect public and private organizations.
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Russian hackers hit US government using widespread supply chain attack
Russia’s Cozy Bear is trojanizing business software to infect organizations worldwide.
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Zodiac Killer cipher is cracked after eluding sleuths for 51 years
Northern California serial murderer sent encoded messages that went uncracked until now.
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Facebook says hackers backed by Vietnam’s government are linked to IT firm
Group is known for its robust, custom-made malware. IT firm says the link is a mistake.
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Wormable code-execution flaw in Cisco Jabber has a severity rating of 9.9 out of 10
The company failed to adequately fix the vulnerability before, so it’s trying again.
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Working from home at 25MHz: You could do worse than a Quadra 700 (even in 2020)
Famously, Apple’s Quadra 700 once helped track dinosaurs. Is it stuck in amber nowadays?
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4 major browsers are getting hit in widespread malware attacks
Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Yandex are all affected in widespread ad-injection campaign.
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Brave browser-maker launches privacy-friendly news reader
By design, Brave Today doesn't let the company or third parties build user profiles.
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COVID-19 vaccine data has been unlawfully accessed in hack of EU regulator
Hack of the European Medicines Agency affects vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech.
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Pornhub blocks uploads and downloads in crackdown on child-sexual-abuse videos
Pornhub will only allow uploads by verified users, bans downloads of most videos.
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“A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C
Today, C may be a lingua franca among programmers. This is its (abridged) history.
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Premiere security firm FireEye says it was breached by nation-state hackers
The FBI, normally mum on such matters, says it is investigating the hack.
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Cloudflare, Apple, and others back a new way to make the Internet more private
New DNS technique separates address lookups from the people making them.
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GE puts default password in radiology devices, leaving healthcare networks exposed
Fixing the critical vulnerability isn’t straightforward and comes with its own risks.
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NSA says Russian state hackers are using a VMware flaw to ransack networks
Multiple VMware products are exploited in attacks that access Windows active directory.
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SpaceX gets $886 million from FCC to subsidize Starlink in 35 states
Charter also wins big; FCC fund will bring service to 5.2M homes and businesses.
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Rusty but intact: Nazi Enigma cipher machine found in Baltic Sea
Enigma device stymied Allied intelligence until Alan Turing cracked it.
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Google parts with top AI researcher after blocking paper, faces blowback
Timnit Gebru’s exit reignites debate over diversity and free speech at tech group.
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Android apps with millions of downloads are vulnerable to serious attacks
Flaw allows malicious apps to steal credentials, private messages, and much more.
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Verizon has been leaking customers’ personal information for days (at least)
A bug in a customer chat feature shows transcripts of other people's chats.
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Nation-state backed hackers going after COVID vaccine supply chain
Sophisticated operation is well-researched and well-placed, aimed at EU.
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One of the Internet’s most aggressive threats could take UEFI malware mainstream
New feature targets the most critical component of all modern-day computers.
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Teardown of “Dishy McFlatface,” the SpaceX Starlink user terminal
"It's rare to see something of this complexity in a consumer product."
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iPhone zero-click Wi-Fi exploit is one of the most breathtaking hacks ever
Before Apple patch, Wi-Fi packets could steal photos. No interaction needed. Over the air.