FBI seizes WeLeakInfo, a website that sold access breached data

  Reddit   ·   21 hours ago

FBI: nation-state hackers breached the networks of two US municipalities last year, targeting a Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability that was patched in February

  Techmeme   ·   2 days ago

Mozilla lays off about 70 employees including senior staffers

  Reddit   ·   2 days ago

Amazon Web Services wants to block early work from Microsoft on the Pentagon’s JEDI contract.

  Reddit   ·   2 days ago

Sophos researchers find 25 "fleeceware" apps on the Play Store, installed by 600M+ users, that abuse the apps' free trial mechanic to charge obscene fees

  Techmeme   ·   3 days ago

Microsoft’s new Office 365 terms: ‘We won’t use your data for advertising or profiling’. US businesses can thank privacy-conscious Europeans for improvements in Microsoft’s Online Services Terms.

  Reddit   ·   4 days ago

Google plans to phase out support for user-agent strings in Chrome, opting for a new technology called Client Hints, as part of its Privacy Sandbox project

  Techmeme   ·   4 days ago

Researchers: AT&T, T-Mobile, Tracfone, US Mobile, and Verizon use vulnerable procedures for customer support that put users at risk of SIM swapping attacks

  Techmeme   ·   5 days ago

Report from Intrusion Truth, a group of anonymous analysts known for doxxing APTs, claims it has found 13 front companies that China is using to recruit hackers

  Techmeme   ·   5 days ago

City of Las Vegas said it successfully avoided devastating cyber-attack

  Reddit   ·   6 days ago

Why are engineers so narrow-minded?

  Hacker News   ·   6 days ago

Unremovable malware found preinstalled on low-end smartphone sold in the US

  Hacker News   ·   1 week ago

Researchers: cable modems with Broadcom chips, including an estimated 200M in Europe alone, are vulnerable to the remote exploit codenamed Cable Haunt

  Techmeme   ·   1 week ago

50+ orgs ask Google to take a stance against Android bloatware

  Reddit   ·   1 week ago

Insight Partners buys cloud data management provider Veeam Software for $5B in a deal expected to close in Q1 2020

  Techmeme   ·   1 week ago

Google Chrome to hide notification spam starting February 2020

  Reddit   ·   2 weeks ago

Intel previews Tiger Lake mobile processors coming later this year, discrete GPUs, and Thunderbolt 4, which it says will have four times the throughput of USB 3

  Techmeme   ·   2 weeks ago

HappyHotel, a Japanese site for booking rooms in "love hotels", says hackers breached its servers and may have accessed users' real names, addresses, and more

  Techmeme   ·   2 weeks ago

Linux and open-source rules: 2019’s five biggest stories show why

  Reddit   ·   2 weeks ago

Lenovo announces ThinkSmart View, a smart display for Microsoft Teams, available this month for $349

  Techmeme   ·   2 weeks ago

Mozilla will allow all users to request the deletion of Firefox telemetry data stored on its servers in accordance with the CCPA; the feature will ship Jan. 7

  Techmeme   ·   2 weeks ago

Company shuts down because of ransomware, leaves 300 without jobs just before holidays

  Reddit   ·   2 weeks ago

Informatica appoints Amit Walia, its products and marketing president, as its first new CEO since going private in 2015, replacing Anil Chakravarthy

  Techmeme   ·   2 weeks ago

Microsoft wins court order to seize 50 domains run by North Korean cyber-espionage group Thallium, the fourth APT Microsoft has combated with this tactic

  Techmeme   ·   3 weeks ago

Grab partners with Singtel to apply for a Singapore digital banking license, with Grab owning a 60% share in the joint entity

  Techmeme   ·   3 weeks ago

IoT device vendor Wyze says a server leak exposed data, including email addresses, camera user IDs, and WiFi SSIDs, of ~2.4M customers from Dec. 4 to Dec. 26

  Techmeme   ·   3 weeks ago

Google Chrome impacted by new Magellan 2.0 vulnerabilities | ZDNet

  Reddit   ·   4 weeks ago

Russia successfully disconnected from the internet

    ·   4 weeks ago

Chinese hacker group caught bypassing Two Factor Authentication.

  Reddit   ·   4 weeks ago

Next on California’s roads: Autonomous pizza delivery trucks – California gives a green light to companies testing driverless delivery vehicles.

  Reddit   ·   4 weeks ago

Russian police raid NGINX Moscow office

  Reddit   ·   1 month ago

Is Apple’s $52,599 Mac Pro overpriced?

  Reddit   ·   1 month ago

Google begins rolling out Chrome 79 with new password protections, including notifications for data breaches, and improved phishing prevention tools

  Techmeme   ·   1 month ago

The Archive Team, which wants to save Yahoo Groups content by uploading it to Internet Archive, says Verizon has blocked the email addresses of its volunteers

  Techmeme   ·   1 month ago

Intel unveils the "Horse Ridge" cryogenic control chip that it says can control multiple quantum bits and make quantum computing more commercially viable

  Techmeme   ·   1 month ago

2020 is when cybersecurity gets even weirder, so get ready | ZDNet

  Reddit   ·   1 month ago

20 VPS providers to shut down on Monday, giving customers two days to save their data

  Reddit   ·   1 month ago

The PC was supposed to die a decade ago. Instead, this happened

  Reddit   ·   1 month ago

FBI recommends that you keep your IoT devices on a separate network

  Reddit   ·   1 month ago

Reddit says a leak of official US-UK trade documents on its platform was part of a Russian political influence campaign, bans 61 accounts and one subreddit

  Techmeme   ·   1 month ago

China resurrects Great Cannon for DDoS attacks on Hong Kong forum

  Reddit   ·   1 month ago

Two malicious Python libraries caught stealing SSH and GPG keys

  Reddit   ·   1 month ago

FBI warns about snoopy smart TVs spying on you | ZDNet

  Reddit   ·   2 months ago

Mozilla removes four Firefox extensions made by Avast and AVG after reports that they were harvesting user data and browsing histories

  Techmeme   ·   2 months ago

Salesforce reports Q3 revenue of $4.5B, up 33% YoY and a net loss of $109M, beating analyst estimates, but issues disappointing Q4 guidance

  Techmeme   ·   2 months ago

AWS updates its Arm-powered processor line with Graviton2, which it claims offers 40% better performance over comparable x86-based cloud instances for 20% less

  Techmeme   ·   2 months ago

A look at the most notable cybersecurity events including data breaches, cyber attacks, and malware strains, of the past ten years

  Techmeme   ·   2 months ago

Microsoft is creating a new Rust-based programming language for secure coding

  Hacker News   ·   2 months ago

iOS apps could really benefit from the newly proposed Security.plist standard

  Techmeme   ·   2 months ago

5G radiation no worse than microwaves or baby monitors: Australian telcos

  Reddit   ·   2 months ago