BSODs hit thousands of Windows PCs due to “a defect” in an update from CrowdStrike, taking banks, airlines, and more businesses offline; Microsoft is aware
or CrowdStrike Microsoft : HELPFUL LINKS — Get notified of outages that impact you — Building reliable applications on Azure The Record : IT teams scramble to recover from CrowdStrike incident as ...
Hackers claiming to be a couple from Vietnam say they wiped some of IHG's data, accessed using the password Qwerty1234, after their ransomware attack was foiled
Hackers have told the BBC they carried out a destructive cyber-attack against Holiday Inn owner Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) “for fun”. Tweets: @readdanwrite , @malwarejake , and @thepacketrat ...
Intel apologizes, following a backlash in China, for telling Chinese suppliers to avoid Xinjiang labor, saying it only did so to “ensure compliance” with US law
Tech companies withdraw from in-person CES Simon Sharwood / The Register : Intel ‘regrets’ offending China with letter telling suppliers to avoid Xinjiang Liza Lin / Wall Street Journal : Intel Apolog...
Intel apologizes, following a backlash in China, for telling Chinese suppliers to avoid Xinjiang labor, saying it only did so to “ensure compliance” with US law
Tech companies withdraw from in-person CES Simon Sharwood / The Register : Intel ‘regrets’ offending China with letter telling suppliers to avoid Xinjiang Agence France-Presse : Intel Apologizes Over ...
Deep dive on a “sextortion” spam email scheme that raked in 50.98 BTC, or ~$473K, over five months and, on some days, accounted for 20%+ of all observed spam
Sophos News : Tweets: @sophoslabs and @thepacketrat Tweets: @sophoslabs : “Some recipients of #sextortion emails do fall for this tactic and pay up. But where does the cryptocurrency go? Researchers ...
Facebook says older versions of the WhatsApp desktop app, which uses Electron, let hackers access files on macOS and Windows via a malicious link in messages
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Microsoft pushes a fix for a critical flaw in a cryptographic component present in all versions of Windows; NSA says it alerted Microsoft to the bug
rather than weaponizing it Robert Hackett / Fortune : The NSA patches up its reputation with a gift to Microsoft Mark Wyciślik-Wilson / BetaNews : Microsoft turns the screws on Windows 7 users with fu...
Sources detail FBI's IDLE program to help companies fight data theft by deploying decoy data to hide real data from hackers and insider threats
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Internet Society-supported initiative MANRS has launched Observatory, a web tool for providing insight into how well ISPs comply with routing security standards
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AI and IoT are driving an industrial revolution on the factory floor by improving operational technology, lowering downtime via predictive maintenance, and more
Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica : Tweets: @libertyrpf Tweets: Liberty / @libertyrpf : “IoT has arrived on the factory floor with the force of Kool-Aid Man exploding through walls.” https://arstechnica....