World’s most destructive botnet returns with stolen passwords and email in tow
If you’ve noticed an uptick of spam that addresses you by name or quotes real emails you’ve sent or received in the past, you can probably blame Emotet. It’s one …
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In India, you don’t need a Google phone to have a Google Assistant
Enlarge / Google Assistant isn’t just for smartphones anymore—at least, not in India.
India is an enormous developing market for international companies like Google—who list Hindi as …
Iowa officials claim confusion over scope led to arrest of pen-testers
Enlarge / The Dallas County, Iowa, courthouse, the site of a penetration test gone wrong.
In a post to the Iowa Judicial Branch website today, a spokesperson …
Harnessing machine learning to make managing your storage less of a chore
<img src="https://www.inter-tuning.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/harnessing-machine-learning-to-make-managing-your-storage-less-of-a-chore.jpg" alt="As far as we know, none of the storage vendors using AI have gone neuromorphic yet—let alone biological.”>
Enlarge / As far as we know, none of the storage vendors using AI have gone neuromorphic yet—let alone biological.
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AT&T considers getting rid of DirecTV as TV business tanks, WSJ reports
Enlarge / An AT&T store in Chicago.
AT&T is considering whether to “part ways” with DirecTV, just four years after buying the satellite company, the Wall Street Journal reported today…
More evidence points to Iranian cruise missiles, drones in attack on Saudi oilfield
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Drone wreck and cruise missile wreckage from the attack on the Aramco Abqaiq oil refinery is displayed during a Saudi Arabian Ministry of Defense news conference in
Advanced hackers are infecting IT providers in hopes of hitting their customers
A previously undocumented attack group with advanced hacking skills has compromised 11 IT service providers, most likely with the end goal of gaining access to their customers’ networks, researchers from …
Los Angeles partnership launches platform to help people catch phishes
Enlarge / The City of Los Angeles is getting some help from a DHS-funded nonprofit in the fight against phishing.
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The relentless march of ransomware, …
Protocol found in webcams and DVRs is fueling a new round of big DDoSes
Hackers have found a new way to amplify the crippling effects of denial-of-service technique by abusing an improperly implemented tool found in almost 1 million network-connected cameras, DVRs, and other …
Millions of Americans’ medical images and data are available on the Internet
Enlarge / Dislocated cervical vertebrae (traumatic lesion of cervical vertebrae C1-C2). X-ray in profile. (Photo by: BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
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