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Ukraine’s Cyberwar Chief Sounds Like He’s Winning
By
Chris Stokel-Walker
— September 14
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2022 at 11:00
Yurii Shchyhol gives WIRED a rare interview about running the country’s Derzhspetszviazok and the state of the online conflict with Russia.
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iOS 16 Has 2 New Security Features for Worst-Case Scenarios
By
Lily Hay Newman
— September 12
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2022 at 11:00
Safety Check and Lockdown Mode give people in vulnerable situations ways to quarantine themselves from acute risks.
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Police Across US Bypass Warrants With Mass Location-Tracking Tool
By
Lily Hay Newman
— September 3
rd
2022 at 13:00
Plus: An unsecured database exposed face recognition data in China, ‘Cuba’ ransomware knocks out Montenegro, and more.
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TikTok Users Were Vulnerable to a Single-Click Attack
By
Dan Goodin, Ars Technica
— September 2
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2022 at 13:00
Microsoft disclosed the flaw in the Android app’s deep link verification process, which has since been fixed.
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A Windows 11 Automation Tool Can Easily Be Hijacked
By
Matt Burgess
— September 2
nd
2022 at 11:00
Hackers can use Microsoft’s Power Automate to push out ransomware and key loggers—if they get machine access first.
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Apple Fixed a Serious iOS Security Flaw—Have You Updated Yet?
By
Kate O'Flaherty
— August 31
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2022 at 11:00
Plus: Chrome patches another zero-day flaw, Microsoft closes up 100 vulnerabilities, Android gets a significant patch, and more.
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Why the Twilio Breach Cuts So Deep
By
Lily Hay Newman
— August 26
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2022 at 20:05
The phishing attack on the SMS giant exposes the dangers of B2B companies to the entire tech ecosystem.
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Inside the World’s Biggest Hacker Rickroll
By
Matt Burgess
— August 22
nd
2022 at 11:00
As a graduation prank, four high school students hijacked 500 screens across six school buildings to troll their classmates and teachers.
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Janet Jackson’s ‘Rhythm Nation’ Can Crash Old Hard Drives
By
Lily Hay Newman
— August 20
th
2022 at 13:00
Plus: The Twilio hack snags a reporter, a new tool to check for spyware, and the Canadian weed pipeline gets hit by a cyberattack.
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Spyware Hunters Are Expanding Their Tool Set
By
Lily Hay Newman
— August 18
th
2022 at 21:42
This invasive malware isn’t just for phones—it can target your PC too. But a new batch of algorithms aims to weed out this threat.
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A New Tractor Jailbreak Rides the Right-to-Repair Wave
By
Lily Hay Newman
— August 14
th
2022 at 01:31
A hacker has formulated an exploit that provides root access to two popular models of the company’s farm equipment.
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Flaw in the VA Medical Records Platform May Put Patients at Risk
By
Lily Hay Newman
— August 13
th
2022 at 19:33
The Veterans Affairs’ VistA software has a vulnerability that could let an attacker “masquerade as a doctor,” a security researcher warns.
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A Single Flaw Broke Every Layer of Security in MacOS
By
Matt Burgess
— August 12
th
2022 at 23:00
An injection flaw allowed a researcher to access all files on a Mac. Apple issued a fix, but some machines may still be vulnerable.
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Zoom’s Auto-Update Feature Came With Hidden Risks on Mac
By
Lily Hay Newman
— August 12
th
2022 at 20:34
The popular video meeting app makes it easy to keep the software up to date—but it also introduced vulnerabilities.
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The US Offers a $10M Bounty for Intel on Conti Ransomware Gang
By
Matt Burgess
— August 11
th
2022 at 18:09
The State Department organization has called for people to share details about five key members of the hacking group.
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Sloppy Software Patches Are a ‘Disturbing Trend’
By
Lily Hay Newman
— August 11
th
2022 at 17:28
The Zero Day Initiative has found a concerning uptick in security updates that fail to fix vulnerabilities.
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Google's Android Red Team Had a Full Pixel 6 Pwn Before Launch
By
Lily Hay Newman
— August 10
th
2022 at 21:38
Before the flagship phone ever landed in users’ hands, the security team thoroughly hacked it by finding bugs and developing exploits.
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The Hacking of Starlink Terminals Has Begun
By
Matt Burgess
— August 10
th
2022 at 14:00
It cost a researcher only $25 worth of parts to create a tool that allows custom code to run on the satellite dishes.
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One of 5G’s Biggest Features Is a Security Minefield
By
Lily Hay Newman
— August 9
th
2022 at 22:46
New research found troubling vulnerabilities in the 5G platforms carriers offer to wrangle embedded device data.
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GitHub Moves to Guard Open Source Against Supply Chain Attacks
By
Lily Hay Newman
— August 8
th
2022 at 23:19
The popular Microsoft-owned code repository plans to roll out code signing, which will help beef up the security of open source projects.
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The US Emergency Alert System Has Dangerous Flaws
By
Andrew Couts
— August 6
th
2022 at 13:00
Plus: A crypto-heist extravaganza, a peek at an NSO spyware dashboard, and more.
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A Slack Bug Exposed Some Users’ Hashed Passwords for 5 Years
By
Lily Hay Newman
— August 5
th
2022 at 22:09
The exposure of cryptographically scrambled passwords isn’t a worst-case scenario—but it isn’t great, either.
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An Attack on Albanian Government Suggests New Iranian Aggression
By
Lily Hay Newman
— August 4
th
2022 at 21:30
A Tehran-linked hack of a NATO member marks a significant escalation against the backdrop of US-Iran nuclear talks.
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The Microsoft Team Racing to Catch Bugs Before They Happen
By
Lily Hay Newman
— August 3
rd
2022 at 16:43
What's it like to be responsible for a billion people's digital security? Just ask the company's Morse researchers.
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A New Attack Easily Knocked Out a Potential Encryption Algorithm
By
Dan Goodin, Ars Technica
— August 3
rd
2022 at 13:00
SIKE was a contender for post-quantum-computing encryption. It took researchers an hour and a single PC to break it.
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The January 6 Secret Service Text Scandal Turns Criminal
By
Lily Hay Newman
— July 23
rd
2022 at 13:00
Plus: The FCC cracks down on car warranty robocalls, Thai activists get targeted by NSO's Pegasus, and the Russia-Ukraine cyberwar continues.
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The 2022 US Midterm Elections' Top Security Issue: Death Threats
By
Lily Hay Newman
— July 21
st
2022 at 14:52
While cybersecurity and foreign meddling remain priorities, domestic threats against election workers have risen to the top of the list.
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Instagram Slow to Tackle Bots Targeting Iranian Women’s Groups
By
Lily Hay Newman
— July 19
th
2022 at 19:40
Despite alerting Meta months ago, feminist groups say tens of thousands of fake accounts continue to bombard them on the platform.
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Amazon Handed Ring Videos to Cops Without Warrants
By
Matt Burgess
— July 16
th
2022 at 13:00
Plus: A wild Indian cricket scam, an elite CIA hacker is found guilty of passing secrets to WikiLeaks, and more of the week's top security news.
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A New Attack Can Unmask Anonymous Users on Any Major Browser
By
Lily Hay Newman
— July 14
th
2022 at 11:00
Researchers have found a way to use the web's basic functions to identify who visits a site—without the user detecting the hack.
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New ‘Retbleed’ Attack Can Swipe Key Data From Intel and AMD CPUs
By
Dan Goodin, Ars Technica
— July 13
th
2022 at 16:00
The exploit can leak password information and other sensitive material, but the chipmakers are rolling out mitigations.
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Chinese Police Exposed 1B People's Data in Unprecedented Leak
By
Lily Hay Newman
— July 9
th
2022 at 13:00
Plus: A duplicitous bug bounty scheme, the iPhone's new “lockdown mode,” and more of the week's top security news.
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Will These Algorithms Save You From Quantum Threats?
By
Amit Katwala
— July 8
th
2022 at 15:10
Quantum-proof encryption is here—decades before it can be put to the test.
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