Ars Technica At least five US federal agencies may have experienced cyberattacks that targeted recently discovered security flaws that give hackers free rein over vulnerable networks, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said on …
More US agencies potentially hacked, this time with Pulse Secure exploits Read More »
Ars Technica The Guardian reports that the New York City Police Department (NYPD) is retiring “Digidog,” a Boston Dynamics Spot robot the state started testing in December. The department described the robot as a tool …
The NYPD retires “Digidog” robot after public backlash Read More »
Ars Technica As many as 29,000 users of the Passwordstate password manager downloaded a malicious update that extracted data from the app and sent it to an attacker-controlled server, the app maker told customers. In …
Backdoored password manager stole data from as many as 29K enterprises Read More »
Ars Technica Russia has implemented a novel censorship method in an ongoing effort to silence Twitter. Instead of outright blocking the social media site, the country is using previously unseen techniques to slow traffic to …
Russia’s Twitter throttling may give censors never-before-seen capabilities Read More »
Ars Technica A hacker compromised the server used to distribute the PHP programming language and added a backdoor to source code that would have made websites vulnerable to complete takeover, members of the open source …
Hackers backdoor PHP source code after breaching internal git server Read More »
Ars Technica New York City councilmember Ben Kallos says he “watched in horror” last month when city police responded to a hostage situation in the Bronx using Boston Dynamics’ Digidog, a remotely operated robotic dog …
New York lawmaker wants to ban police use of armed robots Read More »
Ars Technica Beginning in April, new iPhones and other iOS devices sold in Russia will include an extra setup step. Alongside questions about language preference and whether to enable Siri, users will see a screen …
Apple bent its rules for Russia—and other countries will take note Read More »
Ars Technica A former phone company worker has been charged with conspiracy to commit fraud for allegedly using his access to customer account data to take over the phone numbers of 19 customers, including at …
Prosecutor charges former phone company employee in SIM-swap scheme Read More »
Ars Technica The Trump administration spent the last two years going to war with Huawei, calling the company a national security risk due to its alleged ties with the Chinese government. An executive order barred …
With Trump gone, Huawei tells Biden it’s not a security threat Read More »
Ars Technica Users of Google’s Chrome browser have faced three security concerns over the past 24 hours in the form of a malicious extension with more than 2 million users, a just-fixed zero-day, and new …
Chrome users have faced 3 security concerns over the past 24 hours Read More »
Ars Technica Huawei is China’s—and formerly the world’s—largest smartphone vendor, and over the past 18 months, it learned an important lesson: the company can’t rely on the US supply chain. In 2019, the US government banned US …
Huawei’s HarmonyOS: “Fake it till you make it” meets OS development Read More »