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Exploit for wormable BlueKeep Windows bug released into the wild
For months, security practitioners have worried about the public release of attack code exploiting BlueKeep, the critical vulnerability in older versions of Microsoft Windows that’s …
Elon Musk throws down with Porsche, sends a Model S to the Nürburgring
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As part of Porsche’s build-up to Wednesday’s launch of the Taycan electric car, it took a track-prepped prototype to Germany’s famous Nürburgring Nordschleife. This 12.9-mile (20.8km) track, built in the 1920s as
Zero-day privilege escalation disclosed for Android
Researchers have disclosed a zero-day vulnerability in the Android operating system that gives a major boost to attackers who already have a toe-hold on an affected device.
The privilege-escalation flaw …
A project aims to help ISPs mind their routing security manners
When my kids were younger, we used to tell them we were going to send them to “manners camp” if they didn’t behave properly at the dinner table. An Internet …
Back to school: With latest attack, ransomware cancels classes in Flagstaff
As students returned to school across the country over the past two weeks, school districts are facing an unprecedented
600,000 GPS trackers for people and pets are using 123456 as a password
An estimated 600,000 GPS trackers for monitoring the location of kids, seniors, and pets contain vulnerabilities that open users up to a host of creepy attacks, researchers …
Feds scold Tesla for slow response on driver monitoring
Enlarge / A Tesla Model S. (credit: Mark Kauzlarich/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The National Transportation Safety Board, a federal agency tasked with investigating transportation crashes, published a preliminary report Tuesday about a January 2018 crash in Culver City, California.
IoT botnet creator cops plea to hacking more than 800,000 devices
A 21-year-old Washington man has pleaded guilty to creating botnets that converted hundreds of thousands of routers, cameras, and other Internet-facing devices into money-making denial-of-service …
AT&T’s confusing mess of online TV services even has AT&T confused
AT&T recently made the baffling decision to offer two separate streaming TV services with nearly identical names and to deliver …