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Microsoft starts bringing its Chromium-based version of Edge to all Windows 10 users through an automatic update; the browser previously needed to be downloaded
DOD’s third attempt to implement IPv6 isn’t going well |
VMware reports Q1 revenue of $2.73B, up 12% YoY, subscription and SaaS revenue up 39% YoY; stock up ~9% after hours
OpenSSH says it will deprecate SHA-1 logins over security concerns, after researchers demonstrated an attack that cost under $50,000 in January 2020
Google's Threat Analysis Group says it saw new activity from some Indian "hack-for-hire" firms in Q1 2020, which spoofed WHO Gmail accounts for spearfishing
Box beats expectations with Q1 revenue of $183.6M, up 13% YoY, and billings of $128.1M, up 8% YoY, expects "softness" in revenue from small businesses
Researchers made a USB fuzzing tool, with plans to open source it, that found 26 USB bugs in Linux, Windows, macOS, FreeBSD; Linux had the most and has fixed 11
ESET details malware, allegedly used by Russian APT Turla against European governments, that uses Gmail for command and control and scrapes antivirus logs
Google says ~70% of all serious security bugs in Chrome, largely written in C/C++, are memory safety flaws, after analyzing 912 security bugs fixed since 2015
New Unc0ver jailbreak released, works on all recent iOS versions | ZDNet
Singapore mall operator CapitaLand to launch e-commerce and food delivery services on June 1 offering products and services of retailers from its 18 malls
Report: 60% of insider cybersecurity threats involve employees leaving their jobs, with 44% forwarding content to personal emails, 16% misusing cloud privileges
Comparing Nvidia's new A100 Ampere AI chip with competition from Intel and GraphCore in terms of performance, economics, and software
Keeping open-source groups alive: FOSS Responders
New ‘Spectra’ attack breaks the separation between Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
A hacker is selling the details of 40M registered users of the polling app Wishbone, including email addresses and some passwords in a weak hashing format MD5
Samsung unveils the Galaxy S20 Tactical Edition with custom features for terrain navigation and data encryption, made for rugged use cases like law enforcement
2020 will be the year of Linux on the Windows desktop
Signal to move away from using phone numbers as user IDs
Ukrainian Secret Service says it's arrested a hacker who has allegedly sold billions of stolen credentials on hacking forums and Telegram channels
Verizon’s data breach report highlights how unsecured cloud storage opens door to attacks
Sony and Microsoft announce partnership to embed Microsoft Azure AI capabilities onto Sony's new image sensor with built-in AI that was announced last week
Source code for "smart car" components in Mercedez-Benz vans was leaked online after a Swiss engineer found Daimler AG was hosting an unsecured GitLab server
Microsoft: We were wrong about open source, but luckily you can change
Texas courts slammed by ransomware attack
Multiple supercomputers in some EU countries were hacked this week with crypto mining malware via compromised SSH credentials; evidence suggests a single actor
Ransomware gang asks $42m from NY law firm, threatens to leak dirt on Trump
Google removed 813 "creepware" apps from Play Store, found by academics using an algorithm called CreepRank on data from millions of devices via Norton's app
Startup Kite expands its AI-powered code-completion product beyond Python to JavaScript, says it has 250,000 MAUs, and launches its first paid product, Kite Pro
Microsoft and Intel have developed an approach to detect malware by first converting its binary form into a grayscale image then applying deep learning methods
Microsoft starts rolling out a new Reply All Storm Protection feature to Office 365 customers that lets IT staff detect and stop Reply-All email storms
Hacker group ShinyHunters claims it has breached ten companies, including dating app Zoosk, and is selling their 73M+ user databases on a dark web marketplace
Google expects its staff to work from home until 2021
IT services provider Cognizant expects to lose between $50m and $70m following ransomware attack
HackerEarth survey: 32% of 16K+ experienced developers pick Google's Go as the programming language they want to learn, followed by Python at 24%
For 8 years, a hacker operated a massive IoT botnet just to download Anime videos | ZDNet
German authorities charge Russian hacker for 2015 Bundestag hack
Samsung patches a custom image format flaw, found by Google, that allows remote code execution without user interaction on Samsung smartphones sold since 2014
International Production Orders Bill will give ASIO access to encrypted communications
Cockroach Labs, the company behind CockroachDB, raises $86.6M Series D co-led by Altimeter Capital and BOND, bringing its total raised to $195M
Top AWS engineer Tim Bray quits $1m-plus job over Amazon firing employees
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