Microsoft finds TikTok vulnerability that allowed one-click account compromises August 31, 2022 Flaw resided in the app's deeplink verification process. https://bit.ly/3wKfZZg Read more
Chrome extensions with 1.4M installs covertly track visits and inject code August 31, 2022 If you've installed any of these extensions, manually remove them stat. https://bit.ly/3cxSGuM Read more
Japan declares war on floppy disks for government use August 31, 2022 In Japan, 1,900 government procedures still require submission on floppy disk. https://bit.ly/3KzKOFK Read more
Organizations are spending billions on malware defense that’s easy to bypass August 30, 2022 Two of the simplest forms of evasion are surprisingly effective against EDRs. https://bit.ly/3CN3UX1 Read more
France reveals hidden swimming pools with AI, taxes them August 30, 2022 Computer eyes in the skies make real estate tax evasion in France much harder. https://bit.ly/3Ayp3Bz Read more
FTC sues data broker that tracks locations of 125M phones per month August 29, 2022 Agency says data shows users visits to clinics and homeless shelters. https://bit.ly/3crQ2XF Read more
The number of companies caught up in the Twilio hack keeps growing August 26, 2022 2FA provider Authy, password manager LastPass, and DoorDash all experienced breaches. https://bit.ly/3QSstWI Read more
Phishers who hit Twilio and Cloudflare stole 10k credentials from 136 others August 25, 2022 Already regarded among the most advanced, the attacks were also done at a massive scale. https://bit.ly/3R7luJe Read more
Plex imposes password reset after hackers steal data for >15 million users August 24, 2022 Intruders access personal information for the majority of its 30 million users. https://bit.ly/3CsLYAQ Read more
Unix legend, who owes us nothing, keeps fixing foundational AWK code August 23, 2022 Co-creator of core Unix utility, now 80, just needs to run a few more tests. https://bit.ly/3KdKJr7 Read more
Wave of debit card fraud hits Ally Bank customers, hacked vendors August 19, 2022 Some are seeing charges on cards they've never activated or hardly used. https://bit.ly/3QCjkS6 Read more
Ring patched an Android bug that could have exposed video footage August 18, 2022 After a chain of attacks, security firm got access to locations and recordings. https://bit.ly/3A5B9SC Read more
Update Chrome now to patch actively exploited zero-day August 17, 2022 It's the fifth Chrome zero-day patched by Google this year. https://bit.ly/3SVPSbb Read more
iOS VPNs have leaked traffic for more than 2 years, researcher claims August 17, 2022 VPNs on Apple mobile devices reportedly keep connections open and expose data. https://bit.ly/3PwBmUk Read more
Chrome “Feed” is tantalizing, but it’s not the return of Google Reader August 16, 2022 It's not that Google doesn't like RSS, it just wants RSS to look like Google. https://bit.ly/3c3fsub Read more
1,900 Signal users’ phone numbers exposed by Twilio phishing August 15, 2022 No message, profile, or other data exposed—but SMS remains a weakness. https://bit.ly/3JZ6Cdq Read more
Update Zoom for Mac now to avoid root-access vulnerability August 15, 2022 Feature you'd normally want for secure software opened a huge hole. https://bit.ly/3CbnP1w Read more
A new jailbreak for John Deere tractors rides the right-to-repair wave August 15, 2022 Exploit now provides root access to two popular models of the company’s farm equipment. https://bit.ly/3bPZCmV Read more
Samsung heir pardoned due to South Korean economic needs August 12, 2022 Lee's ascendancy to Samsung chairman position key to "vitalizing the economy." https://bit.ly/3C2prKP Read more
I’m a security reporter and got fooled by a blatant phish August 11, 2022 Think you're too smart to be fooled by a phisher? Think again. https://bit.ly/3PkbsDo Read more
Amid backlash from privacy advocates, Meta expands end-to-end encryption trial August 11, 2022 E2EE prevents anyone other than the sender and receiver from reading messages. https://bit.ly/3JRpDyM Read more
One of 5G’s biggest features is a security minefield August 11, 2022 There are vulnerabilities in 5G platforms carriers offer to wrangle embedded device data. https://bit.ly/3Ad2dR6 Read more
Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes August 10, 2022 Jared Mauch gets $2.6 million from gov't to expand fiber ISP in rural Michigan. https://bit.ly/3zPn8s3 Read more
Phishers who breached Twilio and fooled Cloudflare could easily get you, too August 09, 2022 Unusually resourced threat actor has targeted multiple companies in recent days. https://bit.ly/3djKAWS Read more
10 malicious Python packages exposed in latest repository attack August 09, 2022 Supply-chain attacks are moving GitHub toward digitally signed packages. https://bit.ly/3SxK5IR Read more
SGX, Intel’s supposedly impregnable data fortress, has been breached yet again August 09, 2022 ÆPIC Leak spills users' most sensitive secrets in seconds from SGX enclaves. https://bit.ly/3SCPQVC Read more
Setting our heart-attack-predicting AI loose with “no-code” tools August 09, 2022 In the second part of this three-part series, our heart attack predictions take flight. https://bit.ly/3SEUuCi Read more
Excel esports on ESPN show world the pain of format errors August 08, 2022 Where one sheet link can be the difference between success or elimination. https://bit.ly/3p003hk Read more
Cyberattack on Albanian government suggests new Iranian aggression August 05, 2022 Tehran-linked hack of a NATO member is a significant escalation. https://bit.ly/3BMAh7M Read more
“Huge flaw” threatens US emergency alert system, DHS researcher warns August 04, 2022 Hackers can disrupt legit warnings or issue fake ones of their own. https://bit.ly/3Qn8S06 Read more
North Korea-backed hackers have a clever way to read your Gmail August 03, 2022 SHARPEXT has slurped up thousands of emails in the past year and keeps getting better. https://bit.ly/3SoSL49 Read more
Intel’s loss is AMD’s gain as EPYC server CPUs benefit from Intel’s delays August 03, 2022 Success in laptops, game consoles, and servers leads to record quarter for AMD. https://bit.ly/3vBU9GR Read more
Post-quantum encryption contender is taken out by single-core PC and 1 hour August 02, 2022 Leave it to mathematicians to muck up what looked like an impressive new algorithm. https://bit.ly/3zQGyhc Read more
Charter loses home Internet customers, blames end of COVID subsidy program August 01, 2022 After loss of 42,000 customers, Charter pins growth hopes on new federal funding. https://bit.ly/3OQ6uho Read more
No code, no problem—we try to beat an AI at its own game with new tools August 01, 2022 In part one of three, we give the cloud a new problem to (heart) attack. https://bit.ly/3Q7cdR1 Read more