Ravie LakshmananJul 10, 2026Cybercrime / Law Enforcement A 41-year-old former ransomware negotiator has been sentenced to nearly six years (i.e., 70 months) in prison in the U.S. for their role in conspiring with the now-defunct…
TL;DR: Skip the recurring Microsoft 365 payments and own Microsoft Office 2024 Professional Plus for life. The Windows license is available for a one-time purchase of $54.99. Some subscriptions earn their keep. Others quietly linger on your credit…
You know what’s harder than making decisions? Knowing when to delegate. That’s one of the lessons I learned during my (brief) stints as a boss, and it applies to AI, too. ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini…
A patch Microsoft released on Wednesday to fix a zero-day vulnerability in its Defender security engine may cause Windows machines to write files large enough to completely consume available disk space, the researcher who discovered…
Eyes up, Claude. Rolling out starting today, the new ChatGPT does a little — scratch that — a lot of everything, including coding, web browsing, publishing to the web, and even controlling your PC. Any…
The complaint reads: On September 12, 2025, Allstate informed VMware’s consultant that it had “removed VMware from all devices,” and therefore Allstate was no longer able to “execute the Scripts provided by Broadcom as the…
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Ravie LakshmananJul 09, 2026Developer Security / Supply Chain Security Datadog Security Labs is warning of “several overlapping campaigns” that are systematically enumerating corporate GitHub organizations, repositories, and user accounts through the GitHub API. “Operators rely on…
Microsoft has taken apart a destructive Windows backdoor it calls GigaWiper. What stands out is how it is built: not one tool but three older destructive programs bolted into one, offered as commands the operator…
You can play a lot of games on your phone, old and new. I’ve gone through Skies of Arcadia on international flights thanks to near-perfect emulation of the GameCube era. And the best way to…