KiwiSDR is hardware that uses a software-defined radio to monitor transmissions in a local area and stream them over the Internet. A largely hobbyist base of users does all kinds of cool things with the …
For years, a backdoor in popular KiwiSDR product gave root to project developer Read More »
The Russian state hackers who orchestrated the SolarWinds supply chain attack last year exploited an iOS zero-day as part of a separate malicious email campaign aimed at stealing Web authentication credentials from Western European governments, …
iOS zero-day let SolarWinds hackers compromise fully updated iPhones Read More »
SolarWinds, the company at the center of a supply chain attack that compromised nine US agencies and 100 private companies, is scrambling to contain a new security threat: a critical zero-day vulnerability in its Serv-U …
Microsoft discovers critical SolarWinds zero-day under active attack Read More »
The discovery of Russia’s devastating SolarWinds spy campaign put the spotlight on the sophisticated supply chain hijacking techniques of Moscow’s foreign intelligence hackers. But it’s now apparent that, throughout that SolarWinds spying and its fallout, …
Russian hackers are trying to brute-force hundreds of networks Read More »
Last week’s mass-wiping of Western Digital My Book Live storage devices involved the exploitation of not just one vulnerability but also a second critical security bug that allowed hackers to remotely perform a factory reset without …
Hackers exploited 0-day, not 2018 bug, to mass-wipe My Book Live devices Read More »
Last week, the Linux Foundation created a new open source industry association called the Open Voice Network (OVN). The new group is an independently governed directed fund of the Linux Foundation, with the goals of …
The Linux Foundation is working to improve voice recognition ethics Read More »
Billions of times each year, people turn to Google’s web search box for help figuring out what’s wrong with their skin. Now, Google is preparing to launch an app that uses image recognition algorithms to …
Google launches a new medical app—outside the United States Read More »
The nation-state hackers who orchestrated the SolarWinds supply chain attack compromised a Microsoft worker’s computer and used the access to launch targeted attacks against company customers, Microsoft said in a terse statement published late on …
SolarWinds hackers breach new victims, including a Microsoft support agent Read More »
Ars Technica Western Digital, maker of the popular My Disk external hard drives, is recommending customers unplug their devices from the Internet until further notice while company engineers investigate unexplained compromises that have completely wiped …
“I’m totally screwed.” WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted Read More »
Ars Technica For roughly an hour this morning—6 am to 7 am EDT, give or take a few minutes—enormous swathes of the Internet were down or interestingly broken. Sites taken down included CNN, The Guardian, …
Fast.ly broke the Internet for an hour this morning Read More »
Ars Technica A crime forum is holding a quasi-judicial proceeding against the makers of DarkSide, the ransomware that shut down Colonial Pipeline two weeks ago, to hear claims from former affiliates who say the makers …
Hear ye, DarkSide! This honorable ransomware court is now in session Read More »
Ars Technica It seems that in the United States, at least, app developers and advertisers who rely on targeted mobile advertising for revenue are seeing their worst fears realized: Analytics data published this week suggests …
96% of US users opt out of app tracking in iOS 14.5, analytics find Read More »