Tech-support scammers used data stolen by Trend Micro employee
Enlarge / Did your mom get a call from “Trend Micro Support”? You might want to check on that.
Technical-support telephone scams have been around for a long time, with …
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AT&T makes customers work to get refunds they should get automatically
Enlarge / An AT&T sign outside a company office in New York City.
AT&T kept charging DirecTV customers for a sports channel that was blacked out for two months and …
Breaking the law: How 8chan (or “8kun”) got (briefly) back online
Enlarge / Snek goes dark.
The successor to 8chan, 8kun, made a somewhat brief appearance on the public Internet thanks to what amounts to an attack on the Internet’s routing …
Tipped off by an NSA breach, researchers discover new APT hacking group
Stylized image of a UPC barcode.
With a tip that came from one of the biggest breaches in US National Security Agency history, researchers have discovered a new hacking group …
8chan gets back online—and is promptly forced off again
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8chan was back online this week—albeit with a new name—three months after the site was essentially kicked off the public Internet. 8Chan is now called 8kun and …
Strongly typed documents, move aside—Microsoft Fluid is coming
Enlarge / Microsoft’s upcoming Fluid framework allows real-time, extremely low latency collaboration—and blurs the boundaries between document types.
Microsoft is getting ready to make some extremely big …
Scammers are exploiting an unpatched Firefox bug to send users into a panic
Jérôme Segura
Scammers are actively exploiting a bug in Firefox that causes the browser to lock up after displaying a message warning the computer is running a pirated version of …
Spanish companies’ networks shut down as result of ransomware
Enlarge / Spanish broadcaster SER was hit by a ransomware attack on the morning of November 4, 2019, as was Spanish tech services firm Everis.
A targeted ransomware attack has …
DirecTV kept charging regional sports fee while channel was blacked out
DirecTV and Comcast are being investigated by Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, who objects to the TV providers continuing to charge regional sports network (RSN) fees despite not providing one …
Researchers hack Siri, Alexa, and Google Home by shining lasers at them
Sugawara et al.
Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant are vulnerable to attacks that use lasers to inject inaudible—and sometimes invisible—commands into the devices and surreptitiously cause them …