IT Stories for 2019

Major US Companies Breached, Robbed, and Spied on by Chinese Hackers 118
ProtonMail Takes Aim at Google With an Encrypted Calendar 33
Microsoft Takes Down 50 Domains Operated by North Korean Hackers 45
Security Camera Startup Wyze Leaked Data on Millions of Customers 36
CNET Releases '2019 Data Breach Hall of Shame' Dishonoring This Year's Biggest Data Breaches 19
How Should Students Respond To Their School's Surveillance Systems? 138
Amazon, Ring Face Class-Action Lawsuit Over Alleged Security Camera Hacks 35
Information Teleported Between Two Computer Chips For the First Time 185
Mazda3 Bug Activates Emergency Brake System For No Reason 55
Ring's Security Woes Cause Some Tech Review Sites To Rethink Glowing Endorsements 38
Google Chrome Impacted By New Magellan 2.0 Vulnerabilities 25
A Twitter App Bug Was Used To Match 17 Million Phone Numbers To User Accounts 5
IT Worker With Grudge Jailed 31
No, Spotify, You Shouldn't Have Sent Mysterious USB Drives To Journalists 53
Chinese Hacker Group Caught Bypassing 2FA 27
DNS Over HTTPS: Not As Private As Some Think? 83
'We Tested Ring's Security. It's Awful' 48
Wawa Announces Data Breach Potentially Affecting More Than 850 Stores 30
Over 267 Million Facebook Users Reportedly Had Data Exposed Online 17
Apple Opens Public Bug Bounty Program, Publishes Official Rules 10
Contractor Admits Planting Logic Bombs In His Software To Ensure He'd Get New Work 117
A Data Leak Exposed the Personal Info of Over 3,000 Ring Users 40
Facebook Won't Use 2FA Numbers To Suggest Friends Anymore 20
Judge Rules Edward Snowden Can't Profit From His Book 104
More than 38,000 People Will Stand in Line this Week To Get a New Password 46
Vladimir Putin 'Still Uses Obsolete Windows XP' Despite Hacking Risk 103
Mozilla To Add Second DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) Provider in Firefox 67
Microsoft: We Never Encourage a Ransomware Victim To Pay 62
Visa Warns That Hackers Are Scraping Card Details From Gas Pumps 88
New Jersey's Largest Hospital System Pays Up In Ransomware Attack 34
Ask Slashdot: Who Is Most Likely To Challenge Microsoft In the Office? 147
Npm Team Warns of New 'Binary Planting' Bug 17
New Orleans City Government Shuts Off Computers After Cyberattack 30
Mozilla To Force All Add-on Devs To Use 2FA To Prevent Supply-Chain Attacks 21
Inside the Podcast that Hacks Ring Camera Owners Live on Air 112
Google Adds Spam Detection and Verified Business SMS To Messages 14
'Link in Bio' is a Slow Knife 63
Iran Banks Burned, Then Customer Accounts Were Exposed Online 47
Two of China's Largest Tech Firms Are Uniting To Create a New 'Domestic OS' 93
Maze Ransomware Was Behind Pensacola 'Cyber Event,' Florida Officials Say 5
Microsoft is About To Start Aggressively Advertising Windows 10 To Windows 7 Stragglers 266
Apple Used the DMCA to Take Down a Tweet Containing an iPhone Encryption Key 66
ACLU is Suing ICE For Details on How It Uses Phone Spying Devices 14
Chrome Now Warns You When Your Password Has Been Stolen 49
New Plundervolt Attack Impacts Intel Desktop, Server, and Mobile CPUs 74
Google Releases Chrome 79 With New Features Including an Option To Freeze Tabs and Back-Forward Caching 29
Are You One Of Avast's 400 Million Users? This Is Why It Collects And Sells Your Web Habits. 24
Facebook Tells US Attorney General It's Not Prepared To Get Rid Of Encryption On WhatsApp And Messenger 109
Cyberattack Hits City of Pensacola After Shooting At Naval Air Station 13
WireGuard VPN Is On Its Way To Linux 48
Verizon Kills Email Accounts of Archivists Trying To Save Yahoo Groups History 100
China Tells Government Offices To Remove All Foreign Computer Equipment 127
Open-Source Security Nonprofit Tries Raising Money With 'Hacker-Themed' T-Shirts 11
Trump Administration Drops Plans For Mandatory Face Scans of Citizens 31
Keep Your IoT Devices on a Separate Network, FBI Says 111
Keybase Moves To Stop Onslaught of Spammers on Encrypted Message Platform 13
Most of the Largest US Voting Districts Are Vulnerable To Email Spoofing 19
China Resurrects Great Cannon For DDoS Attacks On Hong Kong Forum 15
44 Million Microsoft Users Reused Passwords in the First Three Months of 2019 34
The Most Copied StackOverflow Java Code Snippet Contains a Bug 71
New Linux Vulnerability Lets Attackers Hijack VPN Connections 43
Hackers Trick Venture Capital Firm Into Sending Them $1 Million 26
New Iranian Wiper Discovered In Attacks On Middle Eastern Companies 37
Apple's Activation Lock Will Make It Very Difficult To Refurbish Macs 178
Two Malicious Python Libraries Caught Stealing SSH and GPG Keys 29
Ring Reportedly Outed Camera Owners To Police With a Heat Map 102
A Bug In Microsoft's Login System Put Users At Risk of Account Hijacks 20
Dutch Politician Faces 3 Years In Prison For Hacking iCloud Accounts, Leaking Nudes 31
FaceApp and Other Russian Apps Pose Potential Counterintelligence Threats, Says FBI 22
Mozilla Removes Avast and AVG Extensions From Add-on Portal Over Snooping Claims 26
People Worldwide Have Received More Than 26 Billion Spam Calls This Year 113
DHS Wants Airport Face Recognition Scans To Include US Citizens 104
Microsoft is Creating a New Rust-Based Programming Language For Secure Coding 69
Vulnerability In Fully Patched Android Phones Under Active Attack By Bank Thieves 98
Putin Signs Law Making Russian Apps Mandatory On Smartphones, Computers 64
All New Cellphone Users In China Must Now Have Their Face Scanned 69
iOS Apps Could Really Benefit From the Newly Proposed Security.plist Standard 13
Now Even the FBI is Warning About Your Smart TV's Security 126
Millions of SMS Text Messages Exposed In Unencrypted Database 17
Ask Slashdot: Is Your Company Using Linux Desktops? 198
SMS Replacement is Exposing Users To Text, Call Interception Thanks To Sloppy Telecos 32
Hacker Stole Unreleased Music and Then Tried To Frame Someone Else 41
Only a Few 2020 US Presidential Candidates Are Using a Basic Email Security Feature 88
Hidden Cam Above Bluetooth Pump Skimmer 113
A Firmware Update Removed the Noise-Cancelling Function From Bose's Noise-Cancelling Headphones. No Word From Bose if It Plans To Fix It 138
NSO Employees Take Legal Action Against Facebook For Banning Their Accounts 53
Amazon's Ring Planned Neighborhood 'Watch Lists' Built On Facial Recognition 68
Some Fortinet Products Shipped With Hardcoded Encryption Keys 21
Some HPE SSDs Fail After 3 Years and 9 Months, Company Warns 113
Facebook and Twitter Users' Data Exposed Due To Third-Party SDK Bug 10
US Tech Sector Skews Younger Than the Workforce As a Whole, Study Finds 118
Zorin OS 15 Lite Linux Distro Can Rejuvenate Your Aging Windows PC 69
Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Safari Cracked In China's White-Hat Hacker Competition 17
What Tech Skills Do Employers Want? SQL, Java, Python, and AWS 121
Slack's Response to New Microsoft Teams Ad? 'Ok Boomer' 260
New Linux/Windows Malware Allows Arbitrary Execution of Shell Commands 80
OnePlus Notifies Customers of Data Breach Impacting Users of Its Online Store 7
1.2 Billion Records Found Exposed Online in a Single Server 17
Microsoft Gets Export License To Sell To Huawei 14
Twitter Will Finally Let Users Disable SMS as Default 2FA Method 9
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules Police Can't Force You To Tell Them Your Password 73
T-Mobile Reveals Data Breach Affecting Prepaid Customers 15
Google Will Pay Bug Hunters Up To $1.5M if They Can Hack Its Titan M Chip 21
Senators Press Amazon For Answers On Ring's Sloppy Security Practices 12
Password Data For About 2.2 Million Users of Currency, Gaming Sites Dumped Online 25
Disney+ Fans Without Answers After Thousands Hacked 46
Antivirus Vendors and Non-Profits Join To Form 'Coalition Against Stalkerware' 23
Google and Samsung Fix Android Spying Flaw. Other Makers May Still Be Vulnerable 10
Why Office Noise Bothers Some People More Than Others 97
Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data From Cayman National Bank 44
Microsoft Announces Plan To Support DoH In Windows 97
Microsoft: We're Changing All Your Cloud Contracts After Privacy Complaints 14
Intel To Remove Old Drivers and BIOS Updates From Its Site 130
Why Two Pentesters In Iowa Are Facing A Criminal Investigation and Trespassing Charges 110
Lessons From the Cyberattack On India's Largest Nuclear Power Plant 113
Pointless Work Meetings 'Really a Form of Therapy' 109
Google Chrome Experiment Crashes Browser Tabs, Impacts Companies Worldwide 50
Over Half of Fortune 500 Exposed To Remote Access Hacking 29
Windows and Linux Get Options To Disable Intel TSX To Prevent Zombieload v2 Attacks 67
TPM-FAIL Vulnerabilities Impact TPM Chips In Desktops, Laptops, Servers 32
Unusual New 'PureLocker' Ransomware Is Going After Servers 22
Intel Fixes a Security Flaw It Said Was Repaired 6 Months Ago 27
Microsoft Starts Rolling Out Windows 10 November 2019 Update 42
Intel's Cascade Lake CPUs Impacted By New Zombieload v2 Attack 43
As 5G Rolls Out, Troubling New Security Flaws Emerge 19
Facebook Bug Has Camera Activated While People Are Using the App 92
IRS Identifies 'Dozens' of New Crypto, Cybercriminals 57
Canada's OpenText To Buy Cloud Security Firm Carbonite For $1.42 Billion 15
WeWork In Talks To Hire T-Mobile CEO John Legere 12
Google Asks Three Outside Antivirus Firms To Start Scanning Submissions To Android's Play Store 14
Security Researchers Exploit Amazon Echo's Chromium Bug, Win $60,000 Bounty 6
'Microsoft Defender ATP' Antivirus is Coming to Linux 100
6 In 10 Websites May Be Impacted by jQuery XSS Vulnerabilities 25
Boeing's Poor Information Security Threatens Passenger Safety, National Security, Says Researcher 21
Scammers Are Actively Exploiting A Firefox Bug 26
WeWork Says It Will Divest All 'Non-Core' Businesses 42
'Platinum' Hacking Group Strikes Again With Complex Titanium Backdoor To Windows 14
Firefox Turns 15 50
DNS-over-HTTPS Will Eventually Roll Out in All Major Browsers, Despite ISP Opposition 119
Netflix, HBO and Cable Giants Are Exploring New Ways Such as Authentication Using Fingerprints To Crack Down on Password Sharing 116
Ransomware, Data Breaches At Hospitals Tied To Uptick In Fatal Heart Attacks 35
Microsoft's Rust Experiments Are Going Well, But Some Features Are Missing 33
DHS Will Soon Have Biometric Data On Nearly 260 Million People 40
Amazon Ring Doorbells Exposed Home Wi-Fi Passwords To Hackers 25
A Ton of People Received Text Messages Overnight That Were Originally Sent on Valentine's Day 82
Chronicle, the Google Moonshot Cybersecurity Startup That Was Supposed To Completely Change the Industry, is Imploding 41
Trend Micro Security Incident Involving Selling Customer Data Was an Inside Job 16
Google Asks Three Mobile Security Firms To Help Scan Play Store Apps 13
This Website Has Solved Cybersecurity 47
The Original Google Pixel Will Get One Final Update In December 47
A Glitch in Robinhood App is Allowing Users To Trade Stocks With Excess Borrowed Funds, Giving Them Access To What Amounts To Free Money 68
Don't Reboot Your Computer After You've Been Infected With Ransomware, Experts Say 56
GitLab Considers Ban On New Hires In China and Russia Due To Espionage Fears 41
Android Bug Lets Hackers Plant Malware Via NFC Beaming 14
With a Laser, Researchers Say They Can Hack Alexa, Google Home or Siri 65
ISPs Lied To Congress To Spread Confusion About Encrypted DNS, Mozilla Says 70
Microsoft Launches Public Previews of Visual Studio Online and Power Virtual Agents 43
Microsoft and Warner Bros. Archived the Original 'Superman' Movie on a Futuristic Glass Disc 93
What Happened When Microsoft Tried A Four-Day Work Week 253
A Widespread BlueKeep 'Exploit' Is Targetting Unpatched Windows 7/XP Computers 38
Study Estimates 50% of WebAssembly Sites Are Using It For Malicious Purposes 89
Data Breaches Reported at NetworkSolutions, Register.com, and Web.com 17
DNA Databases Are a National Security Leak Waiting To Happen 35
NordVPN Users' Passwords Exposed In Mass Credential-Stuffing Attacks 13
Microsoft is Replacing MSDN and TechNet Forums With Microsoft Q&A 31
Google Discloses Chrome Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild 17
Facebook, Mozilla, and Cloudflare Announce New TLS Delegated Credentials Standard 25
Uber Allegedly Paid $100K Ransom and Had Hackers Sign NDAs After Data Breach 20
US Interior Department To Ground Its Drones Over Chinese Spying Risk 33
At Least 13 Managed Service Providers Were Used To Push Ransomware This Year 9
Complaints Mounting About iOS 13.2 Being 'More Aggressive at Killing Background Apps and Tasks' 52
WhatsApp Hacked To Spy on Top Government Officials at US Allies 42
China-Linked Hackers Target Military, Government Texts, FireEye Says 16
Text Editor Releases 'Free Uyghur' Edition, Gets Swamped With Chinese Spam 245
Apple App Store Bug Reportedly Erases Over 20 Million App Ratings In a Week 10
Facebook Permanently Deletes the Accounts of NSO Workers 48
NHS Pagers Are Leaking Medical Data 29
Google Workers Sidestepping Controversial Chrome Tool Sparks Security Worries 55
Country of Georgia Hit By Massive Cyberattack 22
Indian Nuke Plant's Network Reportedly Hit By Malware Tied To North Korea 31
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Spot Bullies During an Interview? 226
New 'Unremovable' XHelper Malware Has Infected 45,000 Android Devices 60
Facebook Sues Israel's NSO Group Over Alleged WhatsApp Hack 11
Google Search To Stop Indexing Flash Content in Late 2019 46
iPhone Emulation Company Sued by Apple Says It's Making iPhones Safer 35
Top Linux Developer On Intel Chip Security Problems: 'They're Not Going Away.' 87
Microsoft Says Russia-Linked Hackers Target Sports Organizations 7
Most System Administrators Prefer Firewall GUIs Over CLIs 159
Microsoft To Deliver Azure Sphere, a Linux-based Chip and Cloud Security Service, in February 2020 29
Are Remote Workers More Productive Because Asynchronous Communication Just Works Better? 174
Nasty PHP7 Remote Code Execution Bug Exploited in the Wild on NGINX Servers 16
How the 2018 Olympic Cyberattack Was Traced To Russian Hackers 29
Russian Cyberattackers Stole Iranian Tools, Then Attacked 35 Countries 20
Symantec Antivirus Crashed Chrome 78 23
City of Johannesburg Hit by Ransomware, Again 24
Security Researcher Gets Access To Thousands of Automatic Pet Feeders By Xiaomi 35
BBC News Launches 'Dark Web' Tor Mirror 41
A DDoS Gang is Extorting Businesses Posing as Russian Government Hackers 18
Open Database Leaked 179GB In Customer, US Government, and Military Records 15
Comcast Is Lobbying Against Encryption That Could Prevent it From Learning Your Browsing History 79
Japanese Hotel Chain Sorry That Hackers May Have Watched Guests Through Bedside Robots 21
Google Says a Fix For Pixel 4 Face Unlock Is 'Months' Away 32
Avast Says Hackers Breached Internal Network Through Compromised VPN Profile 13
Microsoft Announces Secured-core PCs To Counter Firmware Attacks 53
Equifax Used 'admin' as Username and Password for Sensitive Data: Lawsuit 59
Popular VPN Service NordVPN Says it Was Hacked 44
Researchers Tricked Google Home and Alexa Into Eavesdropping and Password Phishing 34
WAV Audio Files Are Now Being Used To Hide Malicious Code 16
Google Criticized After Voice From 'Nest' Camera Threatens to Steal Baby 125
Russian Cyber-Espionage Group Controlled Its Malware Partly Through Reddit Posts 18
Would You Trust Amazon To Run Free and Fair Elections? 80
Unpatched Linux Bug May Open Devices To Serious Attacks Over Wi-Fi 21
Apple Hid a Lightning Connector For Debugging In the Apple TV 4K's Ethernet Port 60
Air Force Finally Retires 8-Inch Floppies From Missile Launch Control System 77
Banning Out-of-Hours Email 'Could Harm Employee Wellbeing' 118
Multifactor Authentication Issue Hitting North American Azure, Office 365 Users 40
Germany's Cybersecurity Agency Recommends Firefox As Most Secure Browser 52
Malware That Spits Cash Out of ATMs Has Spread Across the World 47
Google Expands Chrome's Site Isolation Feature To Android Users 6
Samsung Says Anyone's Thumbprint Can Unlock $900 Galaxy S10 Smartphone 40
US Carried Out Secret Cyber Strike on Iran in Wake of Saudi Oil Attack 85
Argentinian Security Researcher Arrested After Tweeting About Government Hack 48
Edward Snowden: 'Without Encryption, We Will Lose All Privacy. This is Our New Battleground' 135
China Has Gained the Ability To Spy On More Than 100 Million Citizens Via a Heavily Promoted Official App, Report Suggests 47
Flaw In Sudo Enables Non-Privileged Users To Run Commands As Root 139
A Code Glitch May Have Caused Errors In More Than 100 Published Studies 20
Thoma Bravo To Buy Sophos For $3.9 Billion 15
Planting Tiny Spy Chips in Hardware Can Cost as Little as $200 37
Invisible Hardware Hacks Allowing Full Remote Access Cost Pennies 84
IRS Programmer Stole Identities, Funded A Two-Year Shopping Spree 91
Ransomware Gang's Victim Cracks Their Server and Releases All Their Decryption Keys 55
Laser Cutters Sold On Amazon and Elsewhere Are Cheap, Fun -- and Dangerous 81
Computer Historians Crack Passwords of Unix's Early Pioneers 60
Cisco Hit By an Internal Network Outage 33
Critical Remote Code Execution Flaw Fixed In Popular Terminal App For MacOS 15
Tor Project Removes 13.5% of Current Servers For Running EOL Versions 9
Schneier Slams Australia's Encryption Laws and CyberCon Speaker Bans 51
Senator Proposes Mandatory Labeling For Products With Mics, Cameras 42
D-Link Home Routers Open To Remote Takeover Will Remain Unpatched 92
Thunderbird Announces OpenPGP Support 40
Bipartisan Senate Report Calls For Sweeping Effort To Prevent Russian Interference in 2020 Election 330
The Privacy Trade-Offs of Cheap Android Smartphones 22
Hospitals That Are Turning Away Patients Reportedly Pay Ransomware Attackers 100
FBI Warns About Attacks That Bypass Multi-Factor Authentication 29
Russian Malware 'Patches' Chrome and Firefox To Fingerprint TLS Traffic 13
Attackers Exploit New 0-day Vulnerability Giving Full Control of Android Phones 26
Google Finds Hundreds Of Data-Race Conditions In The Linux Kernel 57
Chrome Promises 'No More Mixed Messages About HTTPS ' 46
macOS Systems Can Be Abused In DDoS Attacks 18
Microsoft: Iranian Hackers Targeted a 2020 Presidential Campaign 100

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