Enlarge / Intrusion attempts on Pfizer servers have North Korea’s fingerprints all over them, according to the South Korean NIS. (credit: Cleo Robertson / Cloudwatt) This morning, South Korean intelligence officials warned the country’s lawmakers of North Korean attempts to hack into a “local drug manufacturer” to illicitly obtain COVID-19 vaccine and treatment data. As reported […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Last week, a researcher demonstrated a new supply-chain attack that executed counterfeit code on networks belonging to some of the biggest companies on the planet, Apple, Microsoft, and Tesla included. Now, fellow researchers are peppering the Internet with copycat packages, with more than 150 of them detected so far. The technique […]
Enlarge / Parler’s logo. (credit: Getty Images | Smith Collection/Gado) Parler.com is getting back online after being kicked off Amazon’s hosting service, with the controversial social network saying it no longer relies on “Big Tech” for its Web infrastructure. A Parler announcement today said its relaunched website is “built on sustainable, independent technology and not […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A former phone company worker has been charged with conspiracy to commit fraud for allegedly using his access to customer account data to take over the phone numbers of 19 customers, including at least one cryptocurrency holder. Stephen Daniel DeFiore of Brandon, Florida, received about $2,325 between October 20, 2018, and […]
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 […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Peter Dazeley) Frontier Communications is raising its sneaky “Internet Infrastructure Surcharge” from $4 to $7 later this month, widening the gap between its advertised broadband prices and the actual prices customers pay. Telecom providers love to advertise low rates and then sock customers with bigger bills by charging separate fees […]
Enlarge / Aaron Epstein after conducting a speed test on his new AT&T fiber service, in a picture taken by his wife, Anne. (credit: Anne Epstein) When 90-year-old Aaron Epstein bought a Wall Street Journal print ad to complain about his slow AT&T Internet service, the impact was immediate. Reporters like me called him and […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Security personnel at Microsoft are seeing a big increase in the use of Web shells, the light-weight programs that hackers install so they can burrow further into compromised websites. The average number of Web shells installed from August, 2020 to January of this year was 144,000, almost twice that for the […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | ollo) James, a Cox cable-Internet customer in Irvine, California, got an unwelcome email on Tuesday from the Internet provider. Cox’s email told James, who pays $80 a month for broadband, that his 30Mbps upload speeds will soon be reduced to 10Mbps. A Cox spokesperson told Ars that James and similar […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images / Leon Justice) The Florida water treatment facility whose computer system experienced a potentially hazardous computer breach last week used an unsupported version of Windows with no firewall and shared the same TeamViewer password among its employees, government officials have reported. The computer intrusion happened last Friday in Oldsmar, a Florida […]