A U.S. federal court has sentenced a Ukrainian man to five years in prison for his part in a long-running identity theft operation that helped overseas North Korean workers gain fraudulent employment at dozens of…
Listen, we love MacBooks around here, but we hate paying Apple’s storage upgrade prices. That’s why today’s deal is so good: B&H Photo is selling the M5 MacBook Pro with 1TB of storage space for…
Ravie LakshmananFeb 20, 2026Vulnerability / Cyber Attack Threat actors have been observed exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting BeyondTrust Remote Support (RS) and Privileged Remote Access (PRA) products to conduct a wide range…
In yet another software supply chain attack, the open-source, artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistant Cline CLI was updated to stealthily install OpenClaw, a self-hosted autonomous AI agent that has become exceedingly popular in the past…
Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: Macworld reports that Walmart has stopped selling M1 MacBook Air units with most models out of stock, suggesting Apple is phasing out the current budget laptop. This…
Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: Macworld reports on former Apple designer Jon Stoa’s revelation of an unreleased ‘retro iPod’ concept from 2006-2008, inspired by the 1984 Macintosh design. The proposed device would…
Ravie LakshmananFeb 20, 2026Malware / Threat Intelligence Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new ClickFix campaign that abuses compromised legitimate sites to deliver a previously undocumented remote access trojan (RAT) called MIMICRAT (aka AstarionRAT).…
Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: Macworld discovered kernel extensions in macOS 26.3 revealing codenames for Apple’s rumored March 4 releases, including a low-cost J700 MacBook and two new Studio Display models. The…
The Hacker NewsFeb 20, 2026Cyber Insurance / Password Security With one in three cyber-attacks now involving compromised employee accounts, insurers and regulators are placing far greater emphasis on identity posture when assessing cyber risk. For…
Ravie LakshmananFeb 20, 2026Cybercrime / Law Enforcement A 29-year-old Ukrainian national has been sentenced to five years in prison in the U.S. for his role in facilitating North Korea’s fraudulent information technology (IT) worker scheme.…