The Untold Story of a Crippling Ransomware Attack
More than two years ago, criminals crippled the systems of London’s Hackney Council. It's still fighting to recover.
A Link to News Site Meduza Can (Technically) Land You in Russian Prison
Plus: Hive ransomware gang gets knocked offline, FBI confirms North Korea stole $100 million, and more.
ADS-B Exchange, the Flight Tracker That Powered @ElonJet, Sold to Jetnet
ADS-B Exchange, beloved for resisting censorship, was sold to a company owned by private equity—and now even its biggest fans are bailing.
Most Criminal Cryptocurrency Funnels Through Just 5 Exchanges
The crypto money-laundering market is tighter than at any time in the past decade, and the few big players are moving a “shocking” amount of currency.
The Best Personal Safety Devices, Apps, and Alarms (2023)
Your smartphone or wearable could help you out in a truly dangerous situation. Here are some options to consider.
The Unrelenting Menace of the LockBit Ransomware Gang
The notorious Russian-speaking cybercriminals grew successful by keeping a low profile. But now they have a target on their backs.
India’s Public Education App Exposed Millions of Students’ Data
A mandatory app exposed the personal information of students and teachers across the country for over a year.
How to Encrypt any File, Folder, or Drive on Your System
Trust us, it’s safer this way.
The Biggest US Surveillance Program You Didn’t Know About
Plus: A leaked US “no fly” list, the SCOTUS leaker slips investigators, and PayPal gets stuffed.
T-Mobile's 2023 Data Breach Shows Its $150 Million Security Investment Isn't Cutting It
The mobile operator just suffered at least its fifth data breach since 2018, despite promising to spend a fortune shoring up its systems.
The Small but Mighty Danger of Echo Chamber Extremism
Research shows that relatively few people exist in perfectly sealed-off media bubbles—but they’re still having an outsize impact on US politics.
Welcome to the Era of Internet Blackouts
New research from Cloudflare shows that connectivity disruptions are becoming a problem around the globe, pointing toward a troubling new normal.
A Sneaky Ad Scam Tore Through 11 Million Phones
Some 1,700 spoofed apps, 120 targeted publishers, 12 billion false ad requests per day—Vastflux is one of the biggest ad frauds ever discovered.
Spy Cams Reveal the Grim Reality of Slaughterhouse Gas Chambers
Animal rights activists have captured the first hidden-camera video from inside a carbon dioxide “stunning chamber” in a US meatpacking plant.
GitHub says hackers cloned code-signing certificates in breached repository
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GitHub said unknown intruders gained unauthorized access to some of its code repositories and stole code-signing certificates for two of its desktop applications: Desktop and Atom.
Code-signing certificates place...
QNAP addresses a critical flaw impacting its NAS devices
Taiwanese vendor QNAP is warning customers to install QTS and QuTS firmware updates to address a critical flaw impacting its NAS devices.
QNAP released QTS and QuTS firmware updates to address a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-27596 (CVSS v3 score: 9.8), that...
Chromebook SH1MMER exploit promises admin jailbreak
Schools' laptops are out if this one gets around, but beware bricking Users of enterprise-managed Chromebooks now, for better or worse, have a way to break the shackles of administrative control through an exploit called SHI1MMER.…
MusicLM: Google AI generates music in various genres at 24 kHz
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of an exploding ball of music. (credit: Ars Technica)
On Thursday, researchers from Google announced a new generative AI model called MusicLM that can create...
Russia's Sandworm APT Launches Swarm of Wiper Attacks in Ukraine
The incidents are the latest indication of the growing popularity of dangerous disk wipers, created to disrupt and degrade critical infrastructure and other organizations.
