Big Apple unlikely to get a bite out of them at this rate, though For a period of two years between September 2019 and September 2021, two Americans and two Russians allegedly compromising the taxi dispatch system at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York to sell cabbies …
Not exactly the MAC daddy Three years after Apple introduced a menu setting called Private Wi-Fi Address, a way to spoof network identifiers called MAC addresses, the privacy protection may finally work as advertised, thanks to a software fix.... [...]
It's now up to Ofcom to sort out this messy legislation With the assent of King Charles, the United Kingdom's Online Safety Act has become law, one that the British government says will "make the UK the safest place in the world to be online."... [...]
ETH Zurich boffins say they've devised a better CPU fuzzer to find flaws Video Boffins from ETH Zurich have devised a novel fuzzer for finding bugs in RISC-V chips and have used it to find more than three dozen.... [...]
And Caroline Ellison says she was told by Bankman-Fried to take $10B from customer accounts At the fraud trial of former FTX head Sam Bankman-Fried, prosecutors presented the jury with Python code for the FTX backend that allowed flagged client accounts to spend money they didn't have on the …
Hard-coded credentials strike again Cisco has issued a security advisory about a vulnerability in its Emergency Responder software that would allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to log in to an affected device using the root account.... [...]
What's up, Doc? Try elevated permissions Grab security updates for your Linux distributions: there's a security hole that can be fairly easily exploited by rogue users, intruders, and malicious software to gain root access and take over the box.... [...]
After people's funds go up in smoke, ex-CEO seeks cash to foot legal bills The first of two US government prosecutions of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried commenced in New York on Monday, only a day after the cryptocurrency tycoon sued his own insurance company for failing to cover …
From AI to just plain aaaiiiee! Microsoft introduced its Bing Chat AI search assistant in February and a month later began serving ads alongside it to help cover costs.... [...]
The URLs needed to share chat histories have been indexed. Of course Google's Bard chatbot is currently being re-educated to better understand privacy.... [...]
More precise timing tests find many implementations vulnerable An engineer has identified longstanding undetected flaws in a 25-year-old method for encrypting data using RSA public-key cryptography.... [...]
X3DH readied for retirement as PQXDH is rolled out Signal has adopted a new key agreement protocol in an effort to keep encrypted Signal chat messages protected from any future quantum computers.... [...]
Allegations date back a decade to leaked Snowden docs Cavium, a maker of semiconductors acquired in 2018 by Marvell, was allegedly identified in documents leaked in 2013 by Edward Snowden as a vendor of semiconductors backdoored for US intelligence. Marvell denies it or Cavium placed backdoors in products at …
Now-NASA boffin not impressed Last October, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) was sued by a former chief information officer for allegedly falsifying government security compliance reports.... [...]
Homeland Security told to mind costs, fix up privacy controls Twice delayed and over budget, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been told by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that it needs to correct shortcomings in its biometric identification program.... [...]
Fun technique – but how practical is it? Some smart cookies at institutions in China and Singapore have devised a technique for reading keystrokes and pilfering passwords or passcodes from Wi-Fi-connected mobile devices on public networks, without any hardware hacking.... [...]
Confidential figures for Tesla, Snap, Roku, Avnet, others swiped and used to rack up millions in ill-gotten gains Vladislav Klyushin, the Russian owner of security penetration testing firm M-13, was jailed for nine years in the US on Thursday, for his involvement in a cyber-crime operation that stole top …
Halls of learning are stuck offline, but go Wolverines! The University of Michigan has isolated itself from the internet but, hey, everything's fine!... [...]
No miners were involved in this story Tor, which stands for The Onion Router, weathered a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) storm from June last year through to May.... [...]
Cupertino appears to be blasé about long-standing macOS bug, so coder has blabbed Updated Apple last year introduced a security feature called App Management that's designed to prevent one application from modifying another without authorization under macOS Ventura – but a developer claims it’s not very good at its …
QC crypto-cracking coming in 5, 10, maybe 50 years, so act... now? Google has started deploying a hybrid key encapsulation mechanism (KEM) to protect the sharing of symmetric encryption secrets during the establishment of secure TLS network connections.... [...]
Feds argue leaks to press amount to witness tampering Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), former chief executive of crypto-disaster FTX, who has been awaiting trial for his firm's failure while in home detention with his family, has been sent to jail for attempting to intimidate witnesses.... [...]
Anyone with sizable audience in this surveillance economy is invited to stuff their add-ons with tracking and ads Interview In the past nine years, Oleg Anashkin, a software developer based in San Jose, California, has received more than 130 solicitations to monetize his Chrome browser extension, Hover Zoom+.... [...]
Really? You didn't bother to patch a 9.8 severity critical flaw? Ecommerce stores using Adobe's open source Magento 2 software are being targeted by an ongoing exploitation campaign based on a critical vulnerability that was patched last year, on February 13, 2022.... [...]
SUSE security engineer goes public on unfixed client hole after disclosure drama A security engineer at Linux distro maker SUSE has published an advisory for a flaw in the Mozilla VPN client for Linux that has yet to be addressed in a publicly released fix because the disclosure process …