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Enlarge / Amazon trailers backed into bays at a distribution center in Miami, Florida in August 2019. (credit: Getty Images | Lawrence Glass) Amazon “seized and destroyed” over 2 million counterfeit products that sellers sent to Amazon warehouses in 2020 and “blocked more than 10 billion suspected bad listings before they were published in our […]
Russia mulls legalizing software piracy as it’s cut off from Western tech
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) With sanctions against Russia starting to bite, the Kremlin is mulling ways to keep businesses and the government running. The latest is a creative twist on state asset seizures, only instead of the government taking over an oil refinery, for example, Russia is considering legalizing software piracy. Russian […]
A Windows Defender vulnerability lurked undetected for 12 years
Enlarge (credit: Drew Angerer | Getty Images) Just because a vulnerability is old doesn’t mean it’s not useful. Whether it’s Adobe Flash hacking or the EternalBlue exploit for Windows, some methods are just too good for attackers to abandon, even if they’re years past their prime. But a critical 12-year-old bug in Microsoft’s ubiquitous Windows […]