Dec 24, 2024Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Malware Japanese and U.S. authorities have formerly attributed the theft of cryptocurrency worth $308 million from cryptocurrency company DMM Bitcoin in May 2024 to North Korean cyber actors. “The theft…
Dec 24, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Software Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a now-patched high-severity security flaw impacting Acclaim Systems USAHERDS to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based…
Dec 24, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Zero Day The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has released a security update to address an important vulnerability in its Tomcat server software that could result in remote code execution (RCE)…
PCWorld executive editor Gordon Mah Ung, a tireless journalist we once described as a founding father of hardcore tech journalism, passed away over the weekend after a hard-fought battle with pancreatic cancer. Gordon was 58,…
My colleague and co-conspirator Gordon Mah Ung passed away this weekend, after a battle with cancer. I’m heartbroken. Gordon is the journalist and the person I want to be when I grow up. But you…
Health care company Ascension lost sensitive data for nearly 5.6 million individuals in a cyberattack that was attributed to a notorious ransomware gang, according to documents filed with the attorney general of Maine. Ascension owns…
USB Type-C is the most flexible connection for notebooks and smartphones. The most important of its many capabilities is as a charging socket for battery-powered devices. USB-C should finally make everything simple: One socket, one…
At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Palm vein scanner works incredibly well Robustly engineered and manufactured Comprehensive event logging Cons Interior clip design makes for difficult installation No means of backup power in…
Jumping from Windows 11 Home to a Pro license supercharges Windows—useful if you need more advanced features. If you’ve been considering the leap, there’s good news for the holidays. Right now a Windows 11 Pro…
Dec 23, 2024Ravie LakshmananMachine Learning / Threat Analysis Cybersecurity researchers have found that it’s possible to use large language models (LLMs) to generate new variants of malicious JavaScript code at scale in a manner that…