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The old way of handing out corporate hardware doesn’t work anymore
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With many organizations now having a significant portion of staff working remotely—and as things are looking, this …
Hackers can use just-fixed Intel bugs to install malicious firmware on PCs
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As the amount of sensitive data stored on computers has exploded over the past decade, hardware and software makers have invested increasing amounts of resources into securing devices …
Hackers sponsored by Russia and North Korea are targeting COVID-19 researchers
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Hackers sponsored by the Russian and North Korean governments have been targeting companies directly involved in researching vaccines and treatments for COVID-19, and in some cases, the attacks …
Broadband power users explode, making data caps more profitable for ISPs
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The number of broadband “power users”—people who use 1TB or more per month—has doubled over the past year, ensuring that ISPs will be able to make more …
SpaceX Starlink has some hiccups as expected, but users are impressed
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When SpaceX opened the Starlink public beta last month, the company told users to expect …
DNS cache poisoning, the Internet attack from 2008, is back from the dead
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In 2008, researcher Dan Kaminsky revealed one of the more severe Internet security threats ever: a weakness in the domain name system that made it possible for attackers to send …
SITREP: Azerbaijan’s drone war expands with Reaper-like TB2
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The renewed war between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagoro-Karabakh region has captured the attention of military strategists worldwide, including the United States, because of the degree …
Ubuntu fixes bugs that standard users could use to become root
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Ubuntu developers have fixed a series of vulnerabilities that made it easy for standard users to gain coveted root privileges.
“This blog post is about an astonishingly straightforward way to …