Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Organizations using newer versions of Oracle’s Java framework woke up on Wednesday to a disquieting advisory: A critical vulnerability can make it easy for adversaries to forge TLS certificates and signatures, two-factor authentication messages, and authorization credentials generated by a range of widely used open standards. The vulnerability, which Oracle patched […]
Enlarge / Netflix CEO Reed Hastings at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, on October 18, 2021. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) Netflix plans to launch a lower-priced subscription tier with ads, CEO Reed Hastings said yesterday in an interview to discuss first-quarter earnings . Netflix revenue growth is slowing amid a […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Lenovo has released security updates for more than 100 laptop models to fix critical vulnerabilities that make it possible for advanced hackers to surreptitiously install malicious firmware that can be next to impossible to remove or, in some cases, to detect. Three vulnerabilities affecting more than 1 million laptops can give […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Last year, Apple enacted App Tracking Transparency, a mandatory policy that forbids app makers from tracking user activity across other apps without first receiving those users’ explicit permission. Privacy advocates praised the initiative, and Facebook warned it would spell certain doom for companies that rely on targeted advertising. However, research published […]
Enlarge (credit: cravetiger | Getty Images) Malware designed to target industrial control systems like power grids, factories, water utilities, and oil refineries represents a rare species of digital badness. So when the United States government warns of a piece of code built to target not just one of those industries, but potentially all of them, […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto) Amazon said it will impose a 5 percent “fuel and inflation surcharge” on third-party sellers who ship through Amazon . com starting on April 28. The new fee for shipments in the US was detailed on Amazon Seller Central and applies to the Fulfillment by Amazon online (FBA) service […]
Enlarge (credit: gwengoat | Getty Images) For years, a small and disparate Ukrainian team including IT experts, intelligence officers and a criminal prosecutor has kept a wary eye on a group of hackers nicknamed Armageddon. The hackers were based in Crimea, shielded by the Russian government, which had seized the region in 2014, and out […]
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Microsoft has escaped the recent backlash against the power and wealth of the biggest US tech companies. Despite a stock market value that has soared to more than $2 trillion on its dominance of various parts of the business software market, it has avoided a repeat of the […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Sundry Photography) More than half a decade has passed since the notorious Russian hackers known as Sandworm targeted an electrical transmission station north of Kyiv a week before Christmas in 2016, using a unique, automated piece of code to interact directly with the station’s circuit breakers and turn off the […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Sundry Photography) More than half a decade has passed since the notorious Russian hackers known as Sandworm targeted an electrical transmission station north of Kyiv a week before Christmas in 2016, using a unique, automated piece of code to interact directly with the station’s circuit breakers and turn off the […]