The fight to defend our privacy is a lot like the fight against climate change — almost everyone has come to recognize that it’s a crisis, but collectively we seem to be losing in what feels like an insurmountable battle. Hardly a week goes by without news of yet another big tech company caught misusing…
CVE-2020-2883 was patched in Oracle’s April 2020 Critical Patch Update – but proof of concept exploit code was published shortly after.
Jessica spends 12 hours a day on the internet managing security for web assets and loves her macha tea
Samsung’s Galaxy Book Flex, one of the first laptops with a QLED display, and one of Samsung’s most premium laptops in ages, is now on sale in the US. It’s a sign the company is becoming more serious about its laptop offerings. The Galaxy Flex is a premium 2-in-1 laptop that comes in both 13.3-inch…
Researchers warn commercial airplane systems can be spoofed impacting flight safety of nearby aircraft.
Jessica spends 12 hours a day on the internet managing security for web assets and loves her macha tea
Google Duo is one of the simplest apps for making video calls with friends and family, but it’s been limited by the fact that it generally requires a phone number to use. Frankly, I don’t want everyone to have my phone number. It now seems Google is changing that requirement, thanks to a hidden change…
Hackers targeted Ghost on Sunday, in a cryptocurrency mining attack that caused widespread outages.
Jessica spends 12 hours a day on the internet managing security for web assets and loves her macha tea
An anti-Trump political organization is using AI originally designed to tackle Islamic State propaganda to counter coronavirus disinformation spread by the president. The system has been repurposed to spot comments from Trump that are about to go viral. It will then identify the most popular counter-narratives, and invite a network of more than 3.4 million influencers “to share these highly visual and emotional…
Cybersecurity researcher Mordechai Guri from Israel’s Ben Gurion University of the Negev recently demonstrated a new kind of malware that could be used to covertly steal highly sensitive data from air-gapped and audio-gapped systems using a novel acoustic quirk in power supply units that come with modern computing devices. Dubbed ‘POWER-SUPPLaY,’ the latest research builds…
Elon Musk isn’t messing about: It appears the maverick billionaire is actually selling at least two of his luxury California homes. Listings for two multi-million-dollar houses reported to be owned by Musk recently appeared on real estate website Zillow. [Read: Elon Musk bought $45M in Tesla stock since ‘that weed joke’ — now it’s worth double]…
Days after cybersecurity researchers sounded the alarm over two critical vulnerabilities in the SaltStack configuration framework, a hacking campaign has already begun exploiting the flaws to breach servers of LineageOS, Ghost, and Digicert. Tracked as CVE-2020-11651 and CVE-2020-11652, the disclosed flaws could allow an adversary to execute arbitrary code on remote servers deployed in data…
