On March 19th, 2019 with 194 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: A hacker set off the tornado emergency sirens in the middle of the night last week across two North Texas...
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On March 18th, 2019 with 21 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Security researchers have spotted a new variant of the Mirai IoT malware in the wild targeting two new classes...
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On March 18th, 2019 with 43 comments
The world's largest scientific publisher, Elsevier, left a server open to the public internet, exposing user email addresses and passwords. "The impacted users...
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On March 18th, 2019 with 31 comments
Business communications and collaboration service Slack said today that it is launching Enterprise Key Management (EKM) for Slack, a new tool that enables...
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On March 18th, 2019 with 231 comments
MySpace may have lost your digital memories in a server migration. From a report: "As a result of a server migration project, any photos, videos, and audio...
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On March 17th, 2019 with 85 comments
In "Hated and hunted," a BBC reporter describes visiting a ransomware expert "who has devoted himself, at huge personal cost, to helping victims of ransomware...
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On March 16th, 2019 with 144 comments
"Last month it was discovered that WinRAR, software used to open .zip archive files, has been vulnerable for the last 19 years to a bug that's easily exploited...
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On March 15th, 2019 with 136 comments
Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has introduced legislation that would allocate millions of dollars for local government to create...
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On March 13th, 2019 with 67 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Tom's Guide: Austrian antivirus-testing lab AV-Comparatives tested 250 antivirus apps in Google Play against 2,000...
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On March 12th, 2019 with 69 comments
An international group of researchers who have been examining the source code for an internet voting system that Switzerland plans to roll out this year have...
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On March 10th, 2019 with 74 comments
Dr. Travis Bradberry has a PhD in industrial-organizational psychology, and argues that "The eight-hour workday is an outdated and ineffective approach to...
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On March 9th, 2019 with 63 comments
A VPN researcher found that many Android VPN apps request access to sensitive permissions that they don't need, according to an article shared by...
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On March 8th, 2019 with 43 comments
Citrix disclosed today a security breach during which hackers accessed the company's internal network. In a short statement posted on its blog, Citrix Chief...
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On March 8th, 2019 with 13 comments
Researchers at Ohio State University, the security company FireEye, and research firm Leidos last week published a paper [PDF] describing a new system that...
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On March 8th, 2019 with 97 comments
Microsoft this week revamped Skype's browser-based client with a slew of new features. From a report: The Seattle company this week announced the rollout of a...
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On March 8th, 2019 with 60 comments
Security researchers Bob Diachenko and Vinny Troia discovered an unprotected MongoDB database containing 150GB of detailed, plaintext marketing data --...
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On March 7th, 2019 with 40 comments
Google's bug-hunting researchers known as Project Zero have revealed a fresh zero-day vulnerability in macOS called "BuggyCow." "The attack takes advantage of...
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On March 5th, 2019 with 447 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNET: Encryption should have limits. That's the message FBI Director Christopher Wray had for cybersecurity experts...
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On March 5th, 2019 with 101 comments
A seemingly complex set of characters like "ji32k7au4a83" is a very common password among users, it turns out. From a report: This interesting bit of trivia...
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On March 5th, 2019 with 150 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: Online, you'll find people who use hashtags like "#digitalhoarder" and hang out in the 120,000-subscriber Reddit forum...
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On March 5th, 2019 with 132 comments
Spoiler is the newest speculative attack affecting Intel's micro-architecture. From a report: Like the Spectre and Meltdown attacks revealed in January 2018,...
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On March 4th, 2019 with 41 comments
Over the weekend, a disturbed Android TV owner took to Twitter when he realized, through the Google Home app, he could access a massive list of random...
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On March 4th, 2019 with 165 comments
At a Taipei event earlier today, Intel revealed that USB 4 will once again utilize dual channels to achieve 40Gbps speeds, even on existing 40Gbps-certified...
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On March 3rd, 2019 with 75 comments
Help Net Security shared an interesting statistic from the 2019 Webroot Threat Report.
40 percent of malicious URLs were found on good domains. Legitimate...
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On March 2nd, 2019 with 328 comments
rfengineer tipped us off to this story. The Atlantic reports:
Your office is a den of thieves. Don't take my word for it: When a forensic-accounting firm...
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On March 1st, 2019 with 120 comments
itwbennett writes: Security researchers at Varonis have uncovered a new attack using a new version of the venerable Qbot malware that "creates scheduled tasks...
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On March 1st, 2019 with 82 comments
Microsoft has rolled out a new feature to Excel's Android app that makes it easy to capture data. From a report: Excel now lets you take pictures of a...
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On February 27th, 2019 with 43 comments
Mark Wilson shares a report from BetaNews: Security researchers from Dojo by Bullguard have discovered a vulnerability in Amazon's Ring doorbell that leaves it...
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On February 26th, 2019 with 131 comments
The USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF), this week announced a rebranding of the USB 3.0 and USB 3.1 specifications, under the USB 3.2 specification. USB 3.0 and...
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On February 25th, 2019 with 81 comments
schwit1 shares a report from Ars Technica: In September of 2018, an anonymous independent security researcher (who we'll call X) noticed that their power...
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