ehackingnews.com - While Bitcoin SV or Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV)’s staunchest supporter Craig Wright is busy with lawsuits against people who criticize him, the project is crumbling under the weight of its own expectations. On April 18th , BitcoinSV blockchain has suffered a series of “block re-oganizations,” p...
science.slashdot.org - schwit1 shares a report from UPI: Normally, bacteria and viruses are enemies, but new research suggests a viral infection can offer bacteria some benefits -- chiefly, the ability to distinguish friend from foe. Scientists discovered the phenomenon after observing a stark demarcation line between...
ehackingnews.com - An Indian national in the US 'pleaded guilty' for this week to pulverizing 59 computers at the College of St. Rose, in New York, through a weaponized USB thumb drive named "USB Killer" that he bought on the web. The gadget empowered the 27-year old Vishwanath Akuthota to effectively damage ...
news.slashdot.org - Russia state news channel Rossiya 24 has introduced a robot presenter for some of its bulletins. The BBC reports that the robot, named Alex, "has already caused a stir, with some viewers complaining about his appearance and accusing him of peddling political propaganda." From the report: The rob...
it.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: A hacker stole thousands of documents from Mexico's embassy in Guatemala and posted them online. The hacker, who goes by the online handle @0x55Taylor, tweeted a link to the data earlier this week. The data is no longer available for download a...
politics.slashdot.org - Military voters stationed overseas will be able to cast their votes for the 2020 presidential election via a mobile app that uses a private blockchain. MIT Technology Review reports: Donald Kersey, West Virginia's elections director, tells the cryto news website LongHash that he believes the app...
yro.slashdot.org - Larry Sanger, American internet project developer and co-founder of Wikipedia, argues in a blog post that vendors must start adding physical on/off switches to webcams, smartphone cameras/mics, and other devices that spy on us. He writes: Have you ever noticed that your webcam doesn't have an "o...
tech.slashdot.org - Dan Goodin writes via Ars Technica: A researcher has uncovered strange and unexpected behavior in Windows 10 that allows remote attackers to steal data stored on hard drives when a user opens a malicious file downloaded with the Edge browser. The threat partially surfaced last week when a differ...
yro.slashdot.org - The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority has denied suggestions that it's putting facial recognition cameras in the subway, saying that a trick designed to scare fare-dodgers was misinterpreted. From a report: "There is no capability to recognize or identify individuals and absolutely n...
entertainment.slashdot.org - Netflix has begun testing a shuffle button with some users of its Android app. "Spotted by one our tipsters, the Android app (specifically v7.6.0 build 19 34157) offered to randomly select something to watch," reports Android Police. "And in the playback controls, there's a shuffle icon with a 'R...
bbc.com - Image copyright Getty Images Earlier this month John, who believed he was due a tax refund, received a text message from "InfoHM". "I was bleary-eyed from waking up early," he says. "The excitement of what my tax refund would be overwhelmed my normally pretty rational brain." He followed onlin...
games.slashdot.org - Classic video games are getting a makeover. But it's not big-name game developers making the improvements: it's independent modders. From a report: The technique being used is known as "AI upscaling." In essence, you feed an algorithm a low-resolution image, and, based on training data it's seen,...
siliconangle.com - Open your preferred email client. Now hit “page down” three times. Chances are one of the messages that just scrolled past you is a phishing email, a message that’s intended to fool you into sending money to a stranger, giving up your login credentials or installing malware on your computer. Phi...
yro.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Federal Trade Commission officials are discussing whether to hold Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally accountable for Facebook's privacy failures, according to reports by The Washington Post and NBC News. Facebook has been trying to prote...
isc.sans.edu - Yesterday, Xavier wrote a diary entry about malicious UDF files. I wrote about the analysis of .ISO files before, and it turns out the same techniques work for UDF files too. Python module isoparser can also parse UDF files: We can retrieve the content: And calculate the hash of the contai...
krebsonsecurity.com - Marcus Hutchins, a 24-year-old blogger and malware researcher arrested in 2017 for allegedly authoring and selling malware designed to steal online banking credentials, has pleaded guilty to criminal charges of conspiracy and to making, selling or advertising illegal wiretapping devices.
it.slashdot.org - A year ago, the French government unveiled its plan to build its own encrypted messenger service to ease fears that foreign entities could spy on private conversations between top officials. That app, named Tchap, is now official for Android handsets and the iPhone. From a report: A web dashboard...
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techrepublic.com - A simple tweak of the Windows 10 Registry file can eliminate one often overlooked security concern. Image: FORGEM, Getty Images/iStockphoto Survey after survey tells us that IT professionals and decision-making executives all over the world who work in enterprises of all sizes are most often ...
it.slashdot.org - A computer attack knocked the Weather Channel off the air for more than an hour Thursday morning [Editor's note: the link may be paywalled; alternative source], and federal authorities are investigating the incident, WSJ is reporting. From the report: After its broadcast was disrupted, the weathe...
tech.slashdot.org - Instagram's Android code is hiding a design change that hides the number of likes your posts get. "During this test, only the person who shares a post will see the total number of likes it gets," the company says. TechCrunch reports on the seemingly small design change test and the massive potent...
zdnet.com - Marcus Hutchins, also known as @MalwareTechBlog. (Image: file photo) Marcus "MalwareTech" Hutchins, the British security researcher known for stopping the WannaCry ransomware outbreak, has pleaded guilty today to writing malware in the years prior to his prodigious career as a malware researcher...
yro.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Forbes: In a major win for digital privacy, Utah became the first state in the nation to ban warrantless searches of electronic data. Under the Electronic Information or Data Privacy Act (HB 57), state law enforcement can only access someone's transmitted ...
tech.slashdot.org - To fight phishing, Google last year announced it would require users to enable JavaScript during Google Account sign-in so that it could run attack-detecting risk assessments, and this week, the company said it'll begin to block all sign-ins from embedded browser frameworks like Chromium Embedded...
informationsecuritybuzz.com - Customers of fast food chain Chipotle are reported by TechCrunch to have had their accounts hacked. The company says it believes credential stuffing might be the cause, but some customers have said their passwords are unique to the Chipotle account, and others note that they don’t have accounts a...
blog.malwarebytes.com - Recently, one of our researchers presented at the SAS conference on "Funky malware formats"—atypical executable formats used by malware that are only loaded by proprietary loaders. In this post, we analyze one of those formats in a sample called Ocean Lotus from the APT 32 threat group in Vietnam...
it.slashdot.org - A "computer glitch" may have been behind the fast-spreading fire that ravaged Notre Dame, Associated Press reported Friday, citing the cathedral's rector. From the report: Speaking during a meeting of local business owners, rector Patrick Chauvet did not elaborate on the exact nature of the glitc...
economictimes.indiatimes.com - BENGALURU: Cyber attackers may have targeted IT majors Infosys, Capgemini and Cognizant to access data of third-party company resources, according to cyber security blog KrebsOnSecurity, with Capgemini confirming to ET that it faced a pattern of attack similar to Wipro’s, but took quick remedial ...
/news/tech/others/google-to-block-sign-ins-from-embedded-browsers-to-avert-phishing20190419230626/ - California [USA], April 19 (ANI): Google has announced that it will start blocking sign-ins from embedded browsers within apps starting June to thwart phishing.
bleepingcomputer.com - Mozilla has told BleepingComputer that they will be enabling the tracking feature called hyperlink auditing, or Pings, by default in Firefox. There is no timeline for when this feature will be enabled, but it will be done when their implementation is complete.
developers.slashdot.org - Microsoft has introduced a new open source programming language called Bosque that aspires to be simple and easy to understand by embracing algebraic operations and shunning techniques that create complexity. From a report: Bosque was inspired by the syntax and types of TypeScript and the semanti...
zdnet.com - Young Asian male frustrated, confused and headache by ransomware attack on desktop screen, notebook and smartphone, cyber attack and internet security concepts Getty Images/iStockphoto The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted this week a patent to online payments company PayPal ...
yro.slashdot.org - Records for potentially tens of thousands of patients seeking treatment at several addiction rehabilitation centers were exposed in an unsecured online database, an independent researcher revealed Friday. From a report: The 4.91 million documents included patients' names, as well as details of th...
