Aug 03, 2024Ravie LakshmananPrivacy / Data Protection The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ), along with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), filed a lawsuit against popular video-sharing platform TikTok for “flagrantly violating” children’s privacy laws in…
A cyberattack on the U.K. Electoral Commission that resulted in the data breach of voter register records on 40 million people was entirely preventable had the organization used basic security measures, according to the findings…
Aug 03, 2024Ravie LakshmananDDoS Attack / Server Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack campaign targeting misconfigured Jupyter Notebooks. The activity, codenamed Panamorfi by cloud security firm Aqua, utilizes…
These days, paying sticker price for games on Steam only makes sense in very specific cases. Most of the time, you’re better off waiting until a Steam Sale event hits—if you care about saving money,…
Remember playing Street Fighter at the arcade as a kid, wishing for your own machine at home so you could play all day? Well, now that you have adult money, your wish can come true.…
Enlarge / AI-generated image by FLUX.1 dev: “A beautiful queen of the universe holding up her hands, face in the background.” FLUX.1 On Thursday, AI-startup Black Forest Labs announced the launch of its company and…
Aug 02, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Malware A Taiwanese government-affiliated research institute that specializes in computing and associated technologies was breached by nation-state threat actors with ties to China, according to new findings from Cisco…
I don’t know about you, but I have areas in my house where Wi-Fi just poofs out of existence. These Wi-Fi dead zones can be really annoying and they aren’t always easy to fix. If…
Aug 02, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Malware A Russia-linked threat actor has been linked to a new campaign that employed a car for sale as a phishing lure to deliver a modular Windows backdoor called…
A couple of weeks ago, a massive global IT outage occurred when Windows computers running the CrowdStrike security software crashed. CrowdStrike is popular in enterprise installations, meaning businesses worldwide–including airlines such as Delta Air Lines–were…