Brad Smith tells a US House committee that Microsoft “accepts responsibility” for the issues the CSRB found, its business in China serves US interests, and more
if they haven't shown good cybersecurity performance Jessica Lyons / The Register : Microsoft answered Congress' questions on security. Now the White House needs to act Sean Lyngaas / CNN : Microsoft ...
Apple sues former chief architect of the iPhone and iPad microprocessors, who quit in February to start data center chip startup Nuvia, for breach of contract
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Researchers spot the first successful attack using Windows BlueKeep vulnerability; the exploit is not a worm and installs cryptominers, instead of ransomware
Using Firepower to defend against encrypted DejaBlue Jon Fingas / Engadget : The first in-the-wild BlueKeep cyberattack isn't as dangerous as feared Elizabeth Montalbano / Threatpost : BlueKeep Attack...
AMD reports Q3 revenues of $1.8B, up 9% YoY and net income of $120M, compared to $102M a year ago, meeting analyst expectations
Revenue was $1.80 billion, up 9 percent year … Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE : Chipmaker AMD posts highest quarterly revenue since 2005 Shaun Nichols / The Register : AMD isn't playing around: Bad cons...
An in-depth look at five iOS exploit chains that were used in hacked websites for carrying out watering hole attacks against devices running iOS 10 through 12
In the earlier posts we examined … Ian Beer / Project Zero : In-the-wild iOS Exploit Chain 1 Patrick Howell O'Neill / MIT Technology Review : Websites have been quietly hacking iPhones for years, says...
An in-depth look at five iOS exploit chains that were used in hacked websites for carrying out watering hole attacks against devices running iOS 10 through 12
In the earlier posts we examined … Ryan Whitwam / ExtremeTech : Google Discovered Malicious Websites Used to Hack iPhones for Years Jon Porter / The Verge : Google reveals major iPhone security flaws ...
US government charges Anthony Levandowski, a former star engineer at Google and Uber, with 33 counts of theft and attempted theft of Google trade secrets
this time in criminal court Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE : Former Waymo lidar lead Anthony Levandowski charged with stealing trade secrets Sasha Lekach / Mashable : Former Google and Uber exec faces...
Apple expands bug bounty to macOS, watchOS, and Apple TV, increases maximum payout to $1M, and will open the program to all researchers this fall
And a Bigger Bug Bounty The Hacker News : Apple will now pay hackers up to $1 million for reporting vulnerabilities Charlotte Henry / The Mac Observer : Apple Offers New Bug Bounty of up to $1.5 Milli...
Apple reports Q3 revenue of $53.8B, up 1% YoY, record Services revenue of $11.5B, up from $10.2B YoY, iPhone revenue of $26B, down from $29.5B YoY; stock up 4%+
One thing that Apple has always been good at is being doomed. Chris Barylick / O'Grady's PowerPage : Apple announces Q3 2019 revenue of $53.8 billion, net quarterly profit of $10 billion MacRumors : A...
China's border guards close to Xinjiang install Android malware on tourists' devices that scans for 70K+ files and downloads texts, calendar entries, phone logs
An APK Chinese authorities load onto the Android phones … Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs : China installs a surveillance app on tourists' phones while crossing in the Xinjiang Harper Neidig / T...