FireEye releases a free tool that audits networks to determine whether certain techniques, known to be employed by SolarWinds hackers, were used Techmeme · 3 hours ago
Brave becomes the first major browser to natively support IPFS protocol, useful for accessing censored content; Wikipedia and other sites offer IPFS versions Techmeme · 3 hours ago
Trend Micro: 32% of 500 IT leaders believe AI will replace all cybersecurity roles by 2030; 19% say attackers using AI will be commonplace by 2025 Techmeme · 2 days ago
DuckDuckGo surpassed 100M daily search queries for the first time on Jan. 11; since August 2020, the search engine began seeing over 2B search queries per month Techmeme · 3 days ago
Apple has removed a controversial feature in macOS 11.2 beta 2 that allowed its own apps to bypass third-party firewalls, security tools, and VPNs Techmeme · 5 days ago
Microsoft Cloud for Retail opens for preview, combining services and features from Microsoft Advertising, Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, and Power Platform Techmeme · 6 days ago
CrowdStrike details Sunspot, a newly discovered malware strain that was the first to be used in the SolarWinds supply chain attack, beginning in September 2019 Techmeme · 7 days ago
Google details a sophisticated hacking operation first detected in early 2020 that used several novel Chrome exploits to compromise users on Android and Windows Techmeme · 7 days ago
Report: the operators of Ryuk ransomware earned an estimated $150M+ worth of Bitcoin from ransom payments, which are being cashed out through Binance and Huobi Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
Nissan confirms that source code of its North America mobile apps and internal tools was leaked online after the company misconfigured one of its Git servers Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
Starburst, a startup based around an open-source data analytics project from Facebook called Presto, raises $100M Series C led by a16z, valuing it at $1.2B Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
Open source developer David Recordon named Biden's director of technology, returning to the White House after serving as its first director of IT under Obama Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
Hackers breached Ho Mobile, an Italian telco owned by Vodafone, stealing 2.5M customers' personal info; Ho offers to replace SIM cards of affected customers Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
FBI, CISA, and ODNI, with support from NSA, say an APT "likely Russian in origin" is responsible for all or most of the recently discovered hacks of US agencies Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
Singapore police can access COVID-19 contact tracing data for criminal investigations Reddit · 2 weeks ago
Backdoor account discovered in more than 100,000 Zyxel firewalls, VPN gateways | ZDNet Reddit · 2 weeks ago
Citrix confirmed ADC networking equipment is being actively exploited to amplify DDoS attacks against a "small number of customers"; patch expected mid-January Techmeme · 4 weeks ago
Group of 19 security firms and tech companies including Microsoft and McAfee form Ransomware Task Force to develop a standard framework to deal with ransomware Techmeme · 4 weeks ago
Three VPNs popular with criminals and active for over a decade have had their servers and web domains seized by law enforcement from US, Germany, France, others Techmeme · 4 weeks ago
Security research firms: a second hacking group targeted SolarWinds systems with different malware, likely unrelated to "Sunburst" code targeting the Orion app Techmeme · 4 weeks ago
Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla have banned a root certificate being used by the Kazakhstan government to intercept and decrypt HTTPS traffic Techmeme · 1 month ago
Microsoft says compromised SolarWinds apps were on its networks but that no customer data was stolen; it denies report hackers used its systems to attack others Techmeme · 1 month ago
Avast found 28 malicious Chrome and Edge extensions with 3M+ downloads, many posing as third-party add-ons for Instagram and Facebook; 25 still remain in stores Techmeme · 1 month ago
Microsoft plans to forcibly block and isolate malware-infected versions of the SolarWinds Orion app via Microsoft Defender, starting on Wednesday Techmeme · 1 month ago
Sources: Microsoft and industry partners seize key command and control domain used in SolarWinds hack Techmeme · 1 month ago
GoDaddy buys payments processor Poynt for $320M to expand its commerce and payments services offerings; Poynt's chief executive will join GoDaddy Techmeme · 1 month ago
Microsoft is rolling out native M1 support for many Microsoft 365 for Mac apps, iCloud account integration in Outlook, and updated collaboration capabilities Techmeme · 1 month ago
Facebook doxes and suspends accounts of APT32, one of the most active state-sponsored hacking groups that began in 2014, linking it to an IT group in Vietnam Techmeme · 1 month ago
Adobe has released its final scheduled Flash Player update for all regions outside of mainland China, says it will block Flash content from January 12 Techmeme · 1 month ago
On December 4, a hacker forced open 2,732 package lockers across Moscow operated by local delivery service PickPoint using an unidentified exploit Techmeme · 1 month ago
French court sentences BTC-e founder Alexander Vinnik to five years in prison for laundering ransomware funds, following the Russian national's arrest in 2017 Techmeme · 1 month ago