(credit: Andrew Cunningham) Activist hedge fund Third Point has taken a stake of nearly $1 billion in Intel and called on the chipmaker to consider shedding its manufacturing operations, throwing a core part of its strategy into question. The firm with $15 billion in assets run by Daniel Loeb made a number of demands in […]
Enlarge / Just some of the iDevice types that Corellium didn’t break one law—but may still have broken another—by emulating. (credit: Kristin Lee | Getty Images) Security firm Corellium, which develops software that researchers can use to analyze Apple products, has been handed a partial victory in Apple’s lawsuit against it, as a judge ruled […]
Enlarge / People are complaining about situations like this in Cyberpunk 2077. (credit: CDPR / Twitter) On its release day, Cyberpunk 2077 immediately pivoted from one of the holiday season’s most hotly anticipated new games to one of this year’s biggest debacles, as bugs both comical and game-breaking proved to be so prolific on consoles […]
Enlarge (credit: Traitov | Getty Images) 2020 was a tough year for a lot of reasons, not least of which were breaches and hacks that visited pain on end users, customers, and the organizations that were targeted. The ransomware menace dominated headlines, with an endless stream of compromises hitting schools, governments, and private companies as […]
Expand (charge: Apple) Three dozen journalists needed their iPhones murdered in July and August with what at the time was an iMessage zeroday harness which did not need the sufferers to take some actions to become infected, researchers stated. The exploit along with the payload it set up were created and marketed by NSO Group,” […]
Expand / AT&T corporate offices in November 10, 2020 at El Segundo, California. (credit: Getty Images AT&T is frustrated at the 15 billion supplies it’s obtained for DirecTV and contains”told potential losers it may offset the auction entirely if it does not get much better deals,” that the New York Post reported , citing”sources near […]
Expand (charge: Jason Torchinsky) Let us be truthful: 2020 sucks. So a lot of the season was a constant slog of awful news and gloomy events which it has been difficult to maintain. Yet most people have maintained, and how the majority of us do this is using the tiny handheld computers we take with […]
Expand / / The assault struck on multiple US agencies–along with a complete evaluation of the damage could still be weeks away. Bloomberg Last week, many leading United States government agencies–such as the Departments of Homeland Security, Commerce, Treasury, and State–discovered their systems were broken up by Russian hackers at an months-long espionage performance . […]
Expand / / Close to electronic information and binary code inside community. (credit: Getty Images) Of those 18,000 establishments that downloaded that a backdoored model of applications from SolarWinds, the smallest amount of slivers–maybe as little as 0.2% –obtained a follow-on hack which utilized the backdoor to put in a second-stage payload. The biggest populations […]
Microsoft was murdered with exactly the identical group that jeopardized the networks of applications manufacturer SolarWinds and multiple national agencies, Reuters reported, citing people knowledgeable about the issue. Citing the very exact individuals, the news agency said that Microsoft’s own products were subsequently utilised in follow-on hacks others. It was not immediately clear just how […]