IT Stories for 2020

Google Removes 17 Android Apps Caught Engaging In WAP Billing Fraud 57
Hacker Publishes Info On Las Vegas-Area Students After Demanding Ransom 114
Ransomware Attacks Take On New Urgency Ahead of Vote 37
Healthcare Giant UHS Hit By Ransomware Attack, Sources Say 19
Too Many Staff Have Privileged Work Accounts For No Good Reason, Reckon IT Bods 99
'Google App Engine' Abused to Create Unlimited Phishing Pages 7
The World's Largest Concentrations of Java Programmers are in Asia and Germany 34
Bug Allowed Hijacking Other Firefox Mobile Browsers on the Same Wi-Fi Network 15
Twitter Warns of Possible API Keys Leak 9
Windows XP Source Code Leaked 193
Facebook Busts Russian Disinfo Networks As US Election Looms 80
Ring's Latest Security Camera Is a Drone That Flies Around Inside Your House 81
DHS Admits Facial Recognition Photos Were Hacked, Released On Dark Web 22
Foreign Hackers Cripple Texas County's Email System, Raising Election Security Concerns 51
Microsoft Secures Backend Server That Leaked Bing Data 19
Russia Wants To Ban the Use of Secure Protocols Such As TLS 1.3, DoH, DoT, ESNI 59
Feds Issue Emergency Order For Agencies To Patch Critical Windows Flaw 61
Major Activision Hack Reportedly Compromises Over 500,000 Call of Duty Players 17
iOS 14 Resets iPhone's Default Apps To Apple's Safari and Mail After Reboot 55
Should Employers Cut Your Salary If You Change Cities? 346
Microsoft Warns Workaround Preventing Lenovo ThinkPad BSOD Increases Risk 32
Picture-In-Picture Mode On iOS 14 No Longer Working With YouTube's Mobile Website Unless You Pay For Premium 63
Iranian Hackers Found Way Into Encrypted Apps, Researchers Say 28
Encrochat Investigation Finds Corrupt Cops Leaking Information To Criminals 41
Google 'Formally' Bans Stalkerware Apps From the Play Store 32
Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott Hacked After Posting Boarding Pass on Instagram 36
Patient Dies After Hospital Hit By Ransomware Attack 167
Billions of Devices Vulnerable To New 'BLESA' Bluetooth Spoofing Attack 27
USB-C Was Supposed To Simplify Our Lives. Instead, It's a Total Mess. 155
Zerologon Attack Lets Hackers Take Over Enterprise Networks Within 3 Seconds 59
Personal Information of Roughly 46,000 Veterans Exposed In VA Hack 19
A Bug In Joe Biden's Campaign App Gave Anyone Access To Millions of Voter Files 83
FBI Says Credential Stuffing Attacks Are Behind Some Recent Bank Hacks 30
At JPMorgan, Productivity Falls For Younger Employees At Home 102
CISA: Chinese State Hackers Are Exploiting F5, Citrix, Pulse Secure, and Exchange Bugs 26
Microsoft Wants To Take on Amazon in Connecting Satellites To the Cloud 8
Security Researchers Detail New 'BlindSide' Speculative Execution Attack 33
Microsoft Surface Duo Review: Two Screens, Too Many Problems 41
Mueller's Investigative Team Members Claimed To Have 'Accidentally Wiped' Phones 301
The Surprising Traits of Good Remote Leaders 37
Biden Campaign Firm Hit By Suspected Kremlin Hacking Attack 177
Ransomware Accounted For 41% of All Cyber Insurance Claims in H1 2020 13
Academics Find Crypto Bugs in 306 Popular Android Apps, None Get Patched 32
Tesla Can Detect Aftermarket Hacks Designed To Defeat EV Performance Paywalls 209
Windows 10 Themes Can Be Abused To Steal Windows Passwords 37
City of Hartford Postpones First Day of School After Ransomware Attack 7
Chilean Bank Shuts Down All Branches Following Ransomware Attack 18
Most Cyber-Security Reports Only Focus On the Cool Threats 27
China To Launch Initiative To Set Global Data-Security Rules 81
On Twitter Usernames With Lots of Numbers 49
Apple Opens Up -- Slightly -- on Hong Kong's National Security Law 22
How a White-Hat Hacker Once Gained Control of Tesla's Entire Fleet 42
Trump Administration Issues Directive Aimed At Enhancing Cybersecurity In Space 42
A Single Text Is All It Took To Unleash Code-Execution Worm In Cisco Jabber 12
The Terrorist Group is Defeated and Routed. But Its Backup Plan Survives 27
Firefox Will Add a New Drive-by-Download Protection 31
Former IT Director Gets Jail Time For Selling Government's Cisco Gear On eBay 66
European ISPs Report Mysterious Wave of DDoS Attacks 8
The FBI Botches Its DNC Hack Warning In 2016 -- But Says It Won't Next Time 90
CISA Orders Agencies To Set Up Vulnerability Disclosure Programs 4
Leaked Salary Spreadsheet Reveals Microsoft Employee Earnings for a Second Year 44
Private Intel Firm Buys Location Data to Track People to their 'Doorstep' 20
Twitter Hack May Have Had Another Mastermind: A 16-Year-Old 34
An innocent Typo Led To a Giant 212-Story Obelisk in Microsoft Flight Simulator 51
Trump Administration Forces Facebook and Google To Drop Hong Kong Cable 56
FBI Worried Ring and Other Doorbell Cameras Could Tip Owners Off To Police Searches 128
Apple Mistakenly Approved a Widely Used Malware To Run on Macs 44
CenturyLink Outage Led To a 3.5% Drop in Global Web Traffic 27
Psychology Today: How Programmers Can Avoid Burnout 61
'Unusually Large Number' of Breached SendGrid Accounts Are Sending Spams and Scams 13
Elon Musk Shows Neuralink Brain Link Working In a Pig 87
Microsoft Tests Fix For Bug That Defrags SSD Drives Too Often 95
Intel Slips, and a High-Profile Supercomputer Is Delayed 77
Visa Unveils More Powerful AI Tool That Approves or Denies Card Transactions 50
A Quarter of the Alexa Top 10K Websites Are Using Browser Fingerprinting Scripts 13
New Zealand Stock Exchange Halted by Cyber-Attack 22
Russian Arrested For Trying To Recruit an Insider and Hack a Nevada Company 30
A Chrome Feature is Creating Enormous Load on Global Root DNS Servers 26
A New Botnet Is Covertly Targeting Millions of Servers 27
Chrome 85 Arrives With Tab Management, 10% Faster Page Loads, and PDF Improvements 62
Bridgefy, the Messenger Promoted For Mass Protests, Is a Privacy Disaster 80
Chinese-Made Smartphones Are Secretly Stealing Money From People Around the World 55
Zoom Outage Halts Classes, Meetings 46
Is Blockchain 'the Amazing Solution for Almost Nothing'? 155
Microsoft Removes Registry Tweak That Allowed Users To Permanently Disable Windows Defender 126
'DiceKeys' Creates a Master Password For Life With One Roll 98
Former Uber Exec Charged With Paying 'Hush Money' To Conceal Massive Breach 13
Lightroom App Update Wipes Users' Photos and Presets, Adobe Says they are 'Not Recoverable' 205
Some Email Clients Are Vulnerable To Attacks Via 'mailto' Links 35
Google Fixes Major Gmail Bug Seven Hours After Exploit Details Go Public 39
235 Million Instagram, TikTok and YouTube User Profiles Exposed In Massive Data Leak 19
The Attack That Broke Twitter Is Hitting Dozens of Companies 32
Android 11 Is Taking Away the Camera Picker, Forcing People To Only Use the Built-In Camera 156
Researchers Can Duplicate Keys From the Sounds They Make In Locks 33
AI Company Leaks Over 2.5 Million Medical Records 23
You'll Need a Facebook Account To Use Future Oculus Headsets 120
Chrome 86 Will Warn Users About Insecure Forms On HTTPS Pages 37
An Alexa Bug Could Have Exposed Your Voice History To Hackers 42
Safest Voting Method Is Using Paper, Leading Cyber Expert Says 169
The NSA's Guidelines for Protecting Location Data 30
Did A Chinese State-Sponsored Group Breach Taiwan's Semiconductor Industry? 15
A Simple Telephony Honeypot Received 1.5 Million Robocalls Across 11 Months 65
Jack Daniel's Manufacturer Was Target of Apparent Ransomware Attack 30
Google Resumes Its Attack on the URL Bar, Hides Full Addresses on Chrome 86 231
Single-line Software Bug Causes Fledgling YAM Cryptocurrency To Implode Just Two Days After Launch 108
FBI and NSA Expose New Linux Malware Drovorub, Used by Russian State Hackers 72
Homeland Security Details New Tools For Extracting Device Data at US Borders 113
Dropbox Launches Password Manager, Computer Backup, and Secure 'Vaults' Out of Beta 19
Zoom Sued By Consumer Group For Misrepresenting Its Encryption Protections 11
Parallels Desktop 16 Supports macOS Big Sur and Smoother PC 3D Graphics 29
PDF Still Unfit for Human Consumption, 20 Years Later 227
Pen Test Partners: Boeing 747s Receive Critical Software Updates Over 3.5" Floppy Disks 113
Settlement for Google+ Breach Offers Class Members Up to $12 Each 67
Researcher Discovers New 'HTTP Request Smuggling Attack' Variants 9
The Workforce Is About to Change Dramatically 106
Bill Gates Weighs In on US Pandemic Response, Encryption, and Grilling Tech Executives 86
Millions of Android Phones At Risk Due to 'Achilles' Flaw in Qualcomm Chips 36
Firefox Gets Fix For Evil Cursor Attack 29
Massive Hack Hits Reddit 147
To Head Off Regulators, Google Makes Certain Words Taboo 79
Security Researcher Troy Hunt is Open Sourcing the Have I Been Pwned Code Base 25
Germany Plans To Dim Lights At Night To Save Insects 117
Twitter Says Security Flaw May Have Exposed Android Users' Direct Messages 5
Apple Launches Public Beta of macOS Big Sur, Its Biggest Desktop OS Update in Years 54
US Now Offers $10 Million Reward For Election Interference Tips 163
Cluster of 295 Chrome Extensions Caught Hijacking Google and Bing Search Results 28
LastPass Will Warn You If Your Passwords Show Up On the Dark Web 34
Chrome for Android May Soon Send Notifications Reminding You To Use Chrome 43
Canon Hit by Maze Ransomware Attack, 10TB Data Allegedly Stolen 31
Twitter Says Android Security Bug Gave Access To Direct Messages 4
FBI Issues Warning Over Windows 7 End-of-Life 151
Hacker Leaks Passwords For 900+ Enterprise VPN Servers 33
Hackers Could Use IoT Botnets To Manipulate Energy Markets 39
Microsoft Goes Big in Security Bug Bounties: Its $13.7m is Double Google's 2019 Payouts 17
Decades-Old Email Flaws Could Let Attackers Mask Their Identities 46
Android's Nearby Share' File Sharing Feature is Finally Launching 27
Firefox 79 Clears Redirect Tracking Cookies Every 24 Hours 29
Windows 10: HOSTS File Blocking Telemetry Is Now Flagged As a Risk 159
'Wakaresaseya': Private Agents Hired To End Relationships 52
Trump Fires TVA Chair, Cites Hiring of Foreign Workers 267
Garmin Reportedly Paid Millions To Obtain Decryption Key, Resolve Recent Ransomware Attack 61
Google To Buy Stake In ADT In Home Security Push For $450 Million 31
DOD, FBI, DHS Release Info on Malware Used in Chinese Government-Led Hacking Campaigns 9
NetWalker Ransomware Gang Has Made $25 Million Since March 2020 20
A 17-Year-Old's Journey: Minecraft, SIM-Swapping Bitcoin Heists, Breaching Twitter 135
New Repository Leaks Souce Code From Microsoft, Adobe, and Dozens of Other Companies 31
Could Randomness Theory Hold Key To Internet Security? 50
Red Hat Security Update Renders Systems Unbootable 88
Twitter Says High-Profile Hack Was the Result of a Phishing Attack 23
Is Your Chip Card Secure? Much Depends on Where You Bank 38
Microsoft To Remove All SHA-1 Windows Downloads Next Week 46
Hackers Broke Into Real News Sites To Plant Fake Stories 67
The Vatican Is Said To Be Hacked From China Before Talks With Beijing 55
Alcohol Delivery Service Drizly Confirms Data Breach 15
Election Officials Are Vulnerable To Exim Security Vulnerability, Report Shows 41
Garmin Begins Recovery From Ransomware Attack 19
You Can Now Boot a Windows 95 PC Inside Minecraft and Play Doom On It 84
Huge Apparent Leak Unearths Nintendo's Prototype History 21
Hackers Stole GitHub and GitLab OAuth Tokens From Git Analytics Firm Waydev 28
Australian Regulator Says Google Misled Users Over Data Privacy Issues 11
Digital Banking Site 'Dave' Admits Security Breach Impacting 7.5 Million Users 21
Vigilante Sabotages Malware Botnet By Replacing Payloads With Animated GIFs 16
Is Work Easier For 'Digital Nomads'? 40
'Meow' Attack Has Now Wiped Nearly 4,000 Databases 54
State-of-the-Art Crypto Goes Post-Quantum (with Containerized TinySSH) 40
Trump Campaign Angry That Cell Carriers Blocked Company Texts To Voters 103
Indian IT Consultancies Struggle Against Technological Obsolescence 64
FBI Warns US Companies About Backdoors In Chinese Tax Software 36
More Than 1,000 People at Twitter Had Ability To Aid Hack of Accounts 29
Who Still Needs the Office? US Companies Start Cutting Space 158
Garmin Services and Production Go Down After Ransomware Attack 22
Popular Chinese-Made Drone Is Found To Have Security Weakness 60
Security Breach Exposes More Than One Million DNA Profiles On Major Genealogy Database 28
Apple Will Start Sending Special Devices To iPhone Hackers 13
Gmail Is About To Start Testing Verification-Like Logos For Email 44
'World's Most Wanted Man' Involveld In Bizarre Attempt To Buy Hacking Tools 27
Ransomware Gang Demands $7.5 Million From Argentinian ISP 29
US Charges Two Chinese Spies For a Global Hacking Campaign That Targeted COVID-19 Research 76
Return and Enter Are Two Different Keys 306
LinkedIn Cuts 960 Jobs as Pandemic Puts the Brakes on Corporate Hiring 34
Rare and Hardest To Crack Enigma Code Machine Sells For $437,000 46
Most Dedicated VPN IP-Addresses Are Not Anonymous 27
Microsoft Brings Procmon To Linux 86
Samsung Blu-ray Players Reportedly Bricked By XML Parsing Error 97
BadPower Attack Corrupts Fast Chargers To Melt or Set Your Device on Fire 121
What Happened When Microsoft Analyzed Its Own Remote Work Patterns? 79
'Mozilla VPN' Launches in Six Countries 69
Are Whiteboard Coding Interviews Just Testing For Social Anxiety? 196
Many New Details Emerge About Twitter's Breach 32
Could Working Remotely Kill Silicon Valley's Culture? 67
VPN With 'Strict No-Logs Policy' Exposed Millions of User Log Files 86
FCC: Phone Carriers That Profit From Robocalls Could Have All Calls Blocked 55
Russian Hackers Are Linked To Sweeping Bid To Steal Vaccine Data 69
Firefox Working on Fixing a One-Year-Old Bug in Its Android App That Keeps Camera Active After Users Have Minimized the App or Locked Their Phone 18
Iranian Spies Accidentally Leaked Videos of Themselves Hacking 41
Who's Behind Wednesday's Epic Twitter Hack? 75
IBM Job Ad Calls For a Minimum 12 Years' Experience With Kubernetes -- Which is Six Years Old 42
Microsoft Warns of a 17-Year-Old 'Wormable' Bug 9
Israeli Court Rules NSO Group Can Continue Exporting Spyware 39
Microsoft Adds Support For Custom '+' Email Addresses in Office 365 74
Enigma Code-Breaking Machine Rebuilt At Cambridge 34
US Threatens To Restrict WeChat Following TikTok Backlash 36
Microsoft Worked With Google To Bring Progressive Web Apps To the Play Store 42
US Secret Service Creates New Cyber Fraud Task Force 28
Signal's New PIN Feature Worries Cybersecurity Experts 45
Apple Advises Against MacBook Camera Covers Due To Display Cracking 126
Amazon Makes Employees Delete TikTok From Phones, Citing Security Risk [Update] 64
More Pre-Installed Malware Has Been Found In Budget US Smartphones 34
AI Researchers Create Testing Tool To Find Bugs in NLP From Amazon, Google, and Microsoft 10
Chrome and Firefox Are Getting Support For the New AVIF Image Format 50
Microsoft's New KDP Tech Blocks Malware By Making Parts of the Windows Kernel Read-Only 43
Smartwatch Hack Could Trick Patients To 'Take Pills' With Spoofed Alerts 21
Over 100 Wi-Fi Routers Fail Major Security Test -- Protect Yourself Now 102
Mozilla Suspends Firefox Send Service While It Addresses Malware Abuse 19
Intel Unveils the Thunderbolt 4 Spec, Debuting in PCs in the Fall 95
Security Cameras Can Tell Burglars When You're Not Home, Study Shows 119
Cops Seize Server That Hosted BlueLeaks, DDoSecrets Says 15
Microsoft Will Axe Control Panel From Windows 10 208
Microsoft Seizes Six Domains Used in COVID-19 Phishing Operations 26
Hackers Are Exploiting a 5-Alarm Bug In Networking Equipment 32
Fujitsu Announces Permanent Work-From-Home Plan 47
US Secret Service Reports an Increase in Hacked Managed Service Providers 29
Ask Slashdot: Could We Not Use DNS For a Certificate Revocation Mechanism? 97
Body Cam with Military Police Footage Sold on Ebay 17
Microsoft Released an Emergency Security Update to Fix Two Bugs in Windows Codecs 62
Former Yahoo Engineer Who Infiltrated 6,000 Accounts Avoids Jail 35
Chrome for Android is Finally Going 64-bit, Giving it a Speed Boost in Benchmarks 46
New Apple macOS Big Sur Feature To Hamper Adware Operations 16
Inside the Plot To Kill the Open Technology Fund 80
Microsoft is Force-Feeding Edge To Windows Users With a Spyware-like Install 155
Facebook Says 5,000 App Developers Got User Data After Cutoff Date 3
One Out of Every 142 Passwords is '123456' 71
How Police Secretly Took Over a Global Phone Network for Organized Crime 87
New Mac Ransomware Is Even More Sinister Than It Appears 49
Zoom Misses Its Own Deadline To Publish Its First Transparency Report 5
FCC Declares Huawei, ZTE 'National Security Threats' 74
Google Removes 25 Android Apps Caught Stealing Facebook Credentials 33
An Embattled Group of Hackers Picks Up the WikiLeaks Mantle 74
A Hacker Gang is Wiping Lenovo NAS Devices and Asking for Ransoms 36
Apple Strong-Arms Entire CA Industry Into One-Year Certificate Lifespans 159
Apple Declined To Implement 16 Web APIs in Safari Due To Privacy Concerns 120
Chinese Bank Required Two Western Companies to Use Tax Software With a Hidden Backdoor 93
Journalist's Phone Hacked: All He Had To Do Was Visit a Website. Any Website. 123
Bots Still Trying To Reach Cyberbunker 2.0 Addresses 9 Months After Raid 13
Microsoft Removes Manual Deferrals From Windows Update By IT Pros 'To Prevent Confusion' 115
Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Other Major Tech Companies Decry Republican Bill Seeking To Break Encryption 66
Apple Adds Support for Encrypted DNS (DoH and DoT) 16
Apple Makes Another Acquisition: IT Startup Fleetsmith 13
Comcast Becomes the First ISP To Join Mozilla's TRR Program 85
Safari 14 Will Let You Log in To Websites With Your Face or Finger 42

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