A look at the Rust programming language after 12 years, evolving from side project to robust ecosystem, as developers praise its security, ease, and performance
Rust makes it impossible to introduce some of the most common security vulnerabilities. And its adoption can't come soon enough. Tweets: @nathanielmott Tweets: Nathaniel Mott / @nathanielmott : You s...
How an 8-year-old's YouTube account and a parent activist sparked a debate in Denmark on Google's ubiquity in schools and its handling of children's data
Morgan Meaker / Wired : Tweets: @benpatrickwill , @benpatrickwill , @nathanielmott , @carlheath , @agavrielatos , and @jtemperton Tweets: Ben Williamson / @benpatrickwill : “We have put ourselves in ...
Microsoft identifies a destructive malware operation targeting Ukrainian organizations; the malware looks like ransomware but lacks a ransom recovery mechanism
European Union simulated a cyber attack on a fictitious Finnish power company Vilius Petkauskas / cybernews.com : Belarus state hackers suspected behind Ukraine cyberattack Grugq / grugq's domain : Uk...
Amazon patches two AWS flaws discovered by Orca Security that could have exposed information managed by Glue users and leaked sensitive files via CloudFormation
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The TOS for TRUTH Social shows it bans “excessive use of capital letters”, reserves the right to ban users, and hopes to benefit from Section 230 protections
And What Isn't Nathaniel Mott / PCMag : Things Aren't Going Well for Trump's Social Network Arwa Mahdawi / The Guardian : A ‘non-cancellable’ community: the ‘truth’ about Trump's social media platform...
Facebook says WSJ's series contained deliberate mischaracterizations and conferred egregiously false motives to Facebook's leadership and employees
and burying the findings Charlie Osborne / ZDNet : Facebook rebukes WSJ over investigation on the platform's ability to harm, ‘toxic’ impact Parmy Olson / Bloomberg : Facebook's Beloved Growth Team Ha...
Google removes nine Play Store apps, including PIP Photo with 5.8M+ downloads, after researchers found the apps were stealing users' Facebook login credentials
delete them now JC Torres / SlashGear : Popular Google Play Store apps removed for stealing Facebook passwords Rob Thubron / TechSpot : Nine apps with 5.8 million downloads kicked from Google Play sto...
Microsoft says an attacker gained access to one of its customer service agents and launched attacks against customers in a probe of suspected SolarWinds hackers
The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center is tracking new activity from the NOBELIUM threat actor. Tom Warren / The Verge : Why Windows 11 is forcing everyone to use TPM chips Malcolm Owen / AppleInsid...
MalwareBytes: an Android phone offered free by Assurance Wireless as part of the US Lifeline Assistance program comes pre-installed with Chinese malware
With help from John Hendel and Eric Geller Paul Wagenseil / Tom's Guide : ‘Obamaphones’ come preloaded with malware Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet : Unremovable malware found preinstalled on low-end smartpho...
After a September 24 Windows 10 update, Microsoft's BitLocker uses software encryption by default even for SSDs that offer their own hardware-based encryption
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