“This isn’t ‘The Matrix’”
Last weekend, Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, found himself at the center of a digital fiasco when he was unexpectedly added to a Signal group chat with 17 U.S. government officials who were discussing…
March 2025
March 2025
6 ways to boost your Mac’s storage without paying Apple’s insane upgrade prices
Apple offers pretty good prices on the standard configurations of its Macs. $599 for a M4 Mac mini? $999 for a new M4 MacBook Air? $1,299 for a new M4 iMac? Those are attractively priced.…
Is a hacker logged into your Google account? Here’s how to tell
If you live in a more populated area, you likely check your doors before bed to make sure they’re locked. The same idea is worthwhile to apply to your vital online accounts, too—verifying that they’re…
RESURGE Malware Exploits Ivanti Flaw with Rootkit and Web Shell Features
Mar 30, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Zero-Day The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has shed light on a new malware called RESURGE that has been deployed as part of exploitation activity targeting a now-patched…
HP printer class action suit ends in disappointment
People are pretty pissed off at HP printers. Wait, hang on a sec, let me revise that statement: People are pretty pissed off at all printers, perpetually, but HP printers in particular have been extremely…
I don’t need Windows anymore. One final tool freed me from Microsoft
I’ve been using Windows for as long as I can remember. It was on the very first PC I recall using, literally on my father’s knee. But I don’t need it anymore. That’s a weird…
What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase.
Like many legacy government IT systems, SSA systems contain code written in COBOL, a programming language created in part in the 1950s by computing pioneer Grace Hopper. The Defense Department essentially pressured private industry to…
New Android Trojan Crocodilus Abuses Accessibility to Steal Banking and Crypto Credentials
Mar 29, 2025Ravie LakshmananThreat Intelligence / Mobile Security Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new Android banking malware called Crocodilus that’s primarily designed to target users in Spain and Turkey. “Crocodilus enters the scene not as…
BlackLock Ransomware Exposed After Researchers Exploit Leak Site Vulnerability
Mar 29, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Vulnerability In what’s an instance of hacking the hackers, threat hunters have managed to infiltrate the online infrastructure associated with a ransomware group called BlackLock, uncovering crucial information about their…
Beyond RGB: A new image file format efficiently stores invisible light data
Importantly, it then applies a weighting step, dividing higher-frequency spectral coefficients by the overall brightness (the DC component), allowing less important data to be compressed more aggressively. That is then fed into the codec, and…