Elon Musk sold $8.5B in Tesla stock after agreeing to $44B Twitter deal
Says "no further" sales planned after offloading portion of his stake in company.
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One of the most powerful DDoSes ever targets cryptocurrency platform
15.3 million requests per second is HUGE, especially when delivered through HTTPS.
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Russia wages “relentless and destructive” cyberattacks to bolster Ukraine invasion
Cyberattacks complement and are sometimes timed to military actions.
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Businesses are adopting Windows 11 more quickly than past versions, says Microsoft
Windows, Surface, Office, Xbox, and LinkedIn all earned more money than in 2021.
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Microsoft finds Linux desktop flaw that gives root to untrusted users
Elevation of privilege vulnerabilities can be used to gain persistent root access.
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The first “Meta Store” is opening in California in May
Retail attempt down the road from Meta's VR labs primarily dedicated to VR headsets.
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Hackers are exploiting 0-days more than ever
Mandiant and Google both reported a spike in 0-day bugs in 2021.
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Hackers hammer SpringShell vulnerability in attempt to install cryptominers
Thousands of hack attempts made in the days following discovery of the vulnerability.
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Critical bug could have let hackers commandeer millions of Android devices
Flaw could be exploited with malicious audio file.
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Major cryptography blunder in Java enables “psychic paper” forgeries
A failure to sanity check signatures for division-by-zero flaws makes forgeries easy.
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Netflix stock plummets 37% as CEO says company plans ad-supported tier
Reed Hastings: Ads are "working for Hulu," and Netflix will adopt a similar model.
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Hackers can infect >100 Lenovo models with unremovable malware. Are you patched?
Exploiting critical UEFI vulnerabilities could allow malware to hide in firmware.
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Your iOS app may still be covertly tracking you, despite what Apple says
Apple's landmark App Tracking Transparency may not be as tough as some people think.
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US uncovers “Swiss Army knife” for hacking industrial control systems
"Pipedream" an extremely versatile malware toolkit for targeting power grids, refineries.
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Amazon adds 5% “fuel and inflation” surcharge to seller fees for Prime shipping
Amazon reportedly already "pockets 34% of revenue earned by independent sellers."
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Preparing for Armageddon: How Ukraine battles Russian hackers
One long-running rivalry shows how Kyiv has withstood major cyberattacks.
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Microsoft’s tactics to win cloud battle lead to new antitrust scrutiny
Licensing terms changed fees for Microsoft products running in Amazon, Google cloud.
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Russia’s Sandworm hackers attempted a third blackout in Ukraine
The attack was the first in five years to use Sandworm's Industroyer malware.
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Trend says hackers have weaponized SpringShell to install Mirai malware
Researchers have been in search of vulnerable real-world apps. The wait continues.
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Ransomware sent North Carolina A&T University scrambling to restore services
ALPHV/Black Cat ransomware group has claimed at least 3 victims so far.
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Dealership markups are getting crazy, so this site is tracking them
An extra $200,000 on a new Hummer or $20,000 on an EV6—these are terrible deals.
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WatchGuard failed to explicitly disclose critical flaw exploited by Russian hackers
Silently fixed authentication bypass remained a secret even after it was under attack.
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Companies were slow to remove Russian spies’ malware, so FBI did it for them
How the FBI took down "Cyclops Blink," a Russia state botnet infecting network firewalls.
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Intel suspends all operations in Russia “effective immediately”
Intel says it's working to support its 1,200 employees in Russia.
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Hydra, the world’s biggest cybercrime forum, shut down in police sting
Hydra market facilitated $5 billion in transactions for 17 million customers.
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Zyxel patches critical vulnerability that can allow Firewall and VPN hijacks
Hackers can exploit authentication bypass flaw to gain administrative control.
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Russia inches closer to its splinternet dream
New impetus for sovereign Internet after backlash from Russia's war on Ukraine.
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Explaining Spring4Shell: The Internet security disaster that wasn’t
Vulnerability in the Spring Java Framework is important, but it's no Log4Shell.
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Apple rushes out patches for two 0-days threatening iOS and macOS users
With 5 0-days this year, Apple is on track to meet or break its 2021 tally of 12.
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Mystery solved in destructive attack that knocked out >10k Viasat modems
AcidRain is the seventh wiper associated with the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Researchers used a decommissioned satellite to broadcast hacker TV
What happens when an old satellite is no longer in use but can still broadcast?
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IT giant Globant discloses hack after Lapsus$ leaks 70GB of stolen data
Data released by the group purports to belong to Apple, Facebook, and others.
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Lapsus$ and SolarWinds hackers both use the same old trick to bypass MFA
Not all MFA is created equal, as script kiddies and elite hackers have shown recently.
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Data-harvesting code in mobile apps sends user data to “Russia’s Google”
Data from apps on Apple- and Google-powered mobile devices is sent to Russian servers.
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Some Twitter traffic briefly funneled through Russian ISP, thanks to BGP mishap
Despite the timing, the 45-minute hijacking was most likely an error, not an attack.
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Feds allege destructive Russian hackers targeted US oil refineries
Unsealed indictments: Hackers targeted US energy infrastructure for nearly a decade.
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