Pwns for sale: Scythe prepares a marketplace for sharing simulated hacks
Enlarge / Imagine a supermarket full of advanced persistent threats for your security team to throw at you. That’s what Scythe is aiming to be.
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Amazon wins court injunction on controversial JEDI contract
Cloud-computing and retail behemoth Amazon won a legal victory today against rival Microsoft, as a federal judge agreed to order a hold on a massive federal contract Microsoft was awarded …
Nasty Android malware reinfects its targets, and no one knows how
A widely circulating piece of Android malware primarily targeting US-based phones used a clever trick to reinfect one of its targets in a feat that stumped researchers …
Ars Technicast special edition, part 1: Machine learning assimilates athletics
Enlarge / Artist’s impression of AI playing sports.
Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, and other technologies are changing the world in which we live and work in some subtle, and not-so-subtle, …
Huawei fires back, points to US’ history of spying on phone networks
Enlarge / Huawei sign displayed at CES 2020 in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020.
Chinese vendor Huawei has provided a longer response to US allegations of spying, claiming …
Rental cars can be remotely started, tracked, and more after customers return them
Enlarge / The screen displayed by FordPass four days after an Enterprise Rent-A-Car customer returned his Ford Mustang.
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One of the most destructive botnets can now spread to nearby Wi-Fi networks
Over the past half decade, the Emotet malware has emerged as a top Internet threat that pillages people’s bank accounts and installs other types of malware. The sophistication of its …
Office365 Pro Plus won’t hijack your search engine after all
Enlarge / Stop trying to make Bing happen, Microsoft. It’s never going to happen.
In late January, Microsoft announced that a near-future Office 365 update would roll …
For decades, US and Germany owned Swiss crypto company used by 120 countries
Enlarge / Boris Hagelin’s mechanical crypto gear, like the CX-52 first introduced in 1952, gave US intelligence fits. So they cut deals with Hagelin and eventually bought the company.
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New “red team as a service” platform aims to automate hacking tests for company networks
Enlarge / Randori’s Attack platform aims to automate the “red team” adversarial security role so that more companies can afford to constantly check their security.
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