Microsoft disables Windows App Installer's ms-appinstaller after the URI scheme was used to spread malware; Microsoft disabled and re-enabled the scheme in 2022
While I was there this was used to deliver malware and had no basic security thought put into it, so they disabled the feature. — After I left they reenabled it, it got misused for malware again (su...
The FBI led an effort to dismantle the Qakbot botnet, which ransomware gangs used as an infection vector for years, on August 25 after infiltrating its network
It was live on 700k endpoints (!) which should give you an idea of the scale of cybersecurity woes at many orgs (it's still really, really bad out there). X: Nick Carr / @itsreallynick : payments.txt ...
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...
FireEye releases a free tool that audits networks to determine whether certain techniques, known to be employed by SolarWinds hackers, were used
Focusing on UNC2452 TTPs Lily Hay Newman / Wired : The SolarWinds Hackers Used Tactics Other Groups Will Copy Zeljka Zorz / Help Net Security : Malwarebytes was breached by the SolarWinds attackers Al...
In Defense of Links, Part One: Nick Carr, hypertext and delinkification
For 15 years, I've been doing most of my writing — aside from my two books — on the Web. When I do switch back to writing an article for print, I find myself feeling stymied. I can't link!
Creep Executive Officer
In a weekend WSJ interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Schmidt said: … Nick Carr, quoting the above, quips: … But Carr doesn't even mention the oddest part of the WSJ interview: … I've been thinking...
Google: Making Nick Carr Stupid, But It's Made This Guy Smarter
I will admit, I was entirely biased upon reading this story from Nick Carr, who has a knack for writing pieces that get a lot of attention by baiting his hook with contrarian link chum. Heck, he's re...
Nick Carr: Is Google making us stupid?
It's not yet on the Web, but the July issue of The Atlantic has an exceptional and provocative article by Nick Carr, asking “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” It's a riff on Carr's book, The Big Switch (r...
The Open Source Model Is About Organization, Not Who Signs Your Paycheck
Nick Carr points out a report from the Linux Foundation that finds that most contributions to the Linux kernel come from people who work at companies. Nick Carr says this is a sign of a “shift from t...
The big switch may turn off jobs
Computing is now a resource like electricity - but where the arrival of grid power expanded the middle classes, the internet is making fewer people richer, says Nick Carr — A hundred years ago, a ne...