IT Stories for 2021

Sega Left One of Its European Servers Wide Open 5
'Critical' Polygon Bug Put $24 Billion in Tokens at Risk Until Recent Hard Fork 16
Microsoft Defender Log4j Scanner Triggers False Positive Alerts 18
Attackers in China Using Open-source Log4j Flaw 24
CES 2022 Will Introduce HDMI 2.1a, Another Confusing New Spec 35
Iranian Hackers Behind Cox Media Group Ransomware Attack 4
T-Mobile Suffers Another Data Breach 6
Cyberattack On One of Norway's Largest Media Companies Shuts Down Presses 11
LastPass Says It Didn't Leak Your Password 25
Shutterfly Services Disrupted By Conti Ransomeware Attack 21
Microsoft, Salesforce Battle To Revitalize Customer Service 18
More Than 1,200 Phishing Toolkits Capable of Intercepting 2FA Detected in the Wild 52
Is the Video Game Industry Closer to Unionization Than Ever Before? 81
Employee Background Check Errors Harm Thousands of Workers 65
Will It Take More Than Open Source Funding To Prevent the Next Log4j? 110
Personal and Salary Data for 637,138 Albanian Citizens Leaks Online 15
White House Enlists Software Industry To Improve Open-Source Security 63
New Log4J Flaw Caps Year of Relentless Cybersecurity Crises 77
Seconds Before a 6.2 Earthquake Rattled California, Phones Got a Vital Warning 32
Fisher-Price's Chatter Phone Has a Simple But Problematic Bluetooth Bug 27
Second Ransomware Family Exploiting Log4j Spotted In US, Europe 16
China Regulators Suspend Alibaba Cloud Partnership Over Log4Shell Reporting 29
Microsoft Notifies Customers of Azure Bug That Exposed Their Source Code 9
A Growing Army of Hackers Helps Keep Kim Jong Un in Power 52
Amazon's AWS Logs Its Third Outage this Month, Affecting Slack, Epic Games Store, Asana and More 66
Belgian Defense Ministry Confirms Cyberattack Through Log4j Exploitation 10
Amazon Issues False Copyright Strike Against New World YouTuber for Reporting Bug 70
UK National Crime Agency Finds 225 Million Previously Unexposed Passwords 11
Study Finds 'Serious Security Risks' In K-12 School Apps 16
You Can't Lure Employees Back To the Office 242
The NCA Shares 585 Million Passwords With 'Have I Been Pwned' 20
More Than 35,000 Java Packages Impacted by Log4j Vulnerabilities, Google Says 39
Security Flaws Found in a Popular Guest Wi-Fi System Used in Hundreds of Hotels 25
Ransomware Attack on Major Payroll System Kronos May Take 'Weeks' to Repair 76
Who's Paying to Fix Open Source Software? 142
Security Firm Blumira Discovers Major New Log4j Attack Vector 91
This USB 'Kill Cord' Can Instantly Wipe Your Laptop if Snatched or Stolen 67
Microsoft Moves More Settings Away from the Control Panel on Windows 11 115
Google Says NSO Pegasus Zero-Click 'Most Technically Sophisticated Exploit Ever Seen' 106
Firefox Fixes Password Leak via Windows Cloud Clipboard Feature 13
US Lawmakers Call For Sanctions Against Israel's NSO, Spyware Firms 25
Coinbase Mistakenly Told Some Customers They Were Billionaires 31
Mitto Tells Clients That Co-Founder Departed After Allegations of Phone Spying 2
Hackers Backed by China Seen Exploiting Security Flaw in Internet Software 41
Microsoft To Make Windows Terminal the Default Windows 11 Command Line Experience 113
Don't Buy a Monitor or TV Just for HDMI 2.1 -- Read the Fine Print or You Might Get Fooled 91
Ukraine Arrests 51 For Selling Data of 300 Million People In US, EU 11
Hackers Steal $140 Million From Users of Crypto Gaming Company 27
Spyware Firm NSO Mulls Shutdown of Pegasus Unit, Sale of Company 14
Software Flaw Sparks Global Race To Patch Bug 60
Has the Corporate Climate Migration Begun? 92
Companies Finally Admit They Don't Know When They're Returning to Offices 127
Data on Tens of Thousands of South Australian Government Employees Breached in Ransomware Attack 20
Brazil Health Ministry Website Hit By Hackers, Vaccination Data Targeted 17
Volvo Discloses Security Breach Leading To Data Theft 14
New Zero-Day In the Log4j Java Library Is Already Being Exploited 122
Microsoft Launches Center for Reporting Malicious Drivers 27
Cox Discloses Data Breach After Hacker Impersonates Support Agent 16
Fall On Walk From Bed To Desk Is Workplace Accident, German Court Rules 148
Google Says Bug With Teams and Android Can Cause 911 Calls To Fail 44
New German Government Coalition Promises Not To Buy Exploits 18
Over 40 Million People Had Health Information Leaked This Year 25
Virgin Media Fined $50K For Spamming Opted-Out Customers 13
Microsoft Rolls Out Revamped Notepad App To Windows 11 Insiders 123
Missouri Planned To Thank 'Hacker' Journalist Before Governor Accused Him of Crimes 57
An Amazon Server Outage is Causing Problems for Alexa, Ring, Disney Plus, and Others 99
Microsoft Seizes Domains Used By Chinese Cyber-Espionage Group 'Nickel' 26
SolarWinds Hackers Have a Whole Bag of New Tricks For Mass Compromise Attacks 43
A Mysterious Threat Actor is Running Hundreds of Malicious Tor Relays 20
Activision's Call of Duty Game Testers Plan Walkout Over Job Cuts 44
Firefox 95 Will Include RLBox Sandboxing for Added Security 35
America Tries to Fill 600,000 Vacant Cybersecurity Positions 75
The Case for a Four-Day Work Week 125
Someone Stole $120 Million in Crypto From a DeFi Website 72
Nine WiFi Routers Used by Millions Were Vulnerable to 226 Flaws 74
Hackers Are Spamming Businesses' Receipt Printers With 'Antiwork' Manifestos 96
Zoom Will Soon Make It Obvious If You're Late To Your Next Big Meeting 16
FBI Says the Cuba Ransomware Gang Made $43.9 Million from Ransom Payments 14
Microsoft Backtracks on Windows 11's Controversial Default Browser Changes 39
Former Ubiquiti Dev Charged For Trying To Extort His Employer 20
Really Stupid 'Smart Contract' Bug Let Hackers Steal $31 Million In Digital Coin 55
Microsoft's New Office UI is Now Rolling Out To Everyone 53
Stripe is On a Hiring Spree. But It's Also Rescinding Job Offers and Angering Engineers. 102
Thousands of AT&T Customers in the US Infected by New Data-stealing Malware 10
Over 300,000 Android Users Have Downloaded These Banking Trojan Malware Apps, Say Security Researchers 23
The Virtual Phone Farms Scammers Use To Set Up Fake Accounts 22
FBI Document Shows What Data Can Be Obtained From Encrypted Messaging Apps 23
Finland Battles 'Exceptional' Malware Attack Spread by Phones 27
Israel and Iran Broaden Cyberwar To Attack Civilian Targets 31
Microsoft Edge's Latest Feature Called a 'Shameless Cash Grab' by Critics 115
Notifications Are Driving Us Crazy. 111
Huge Fines and a Ban on Default Passwords in New UK Law 110
New Windows Zero-Day With Public Exploit Lets You Become An Admin 57
Attackers Don't Bother Brute-forcing Long Passwords, Microsoft Engineer Says 100
Meta Delays Encrypted Messages on Facebook and Instagram To 2023 34
GoDaddy Security Breach Exposes WordPress Users' Data 9
Cryptographers Aren't Happy With How You're Using the Word 'Crypto' 99
Ask Slashdot: Where Are All the Jobs Preventing Zero-Day Exploits? 112
GitHub Fixes a Private-Package-Names Leak and Serious Authorization Bug 21
GitHub's Annual Developer Survey Finds Remote Developers Aren't Returning to the Office 28
Rockstar Admits GTA Remasters 'Did Not Meet Our Own Standards of Quality' 25
Thousands of Firefox Users Accidentally Commit Login Cookies On GitHub 52
Russian Ransomware Gangs Start Collaborating With Chinese Hackers 11
Is Microsoft Stealing People's Bookmarks? 99
Linux Has a Serious Security Problem That Once Again Enables DNS Cache Poisoning 66
US Says Iran-backed Hackers Are Now Targeting Organizations With Ransomware 18
Robinhood Hack Also Included Thousands of Phone Numbers 6
Google Chrome 96 Breaks Twitter, Discord, Video Rendering and More 19
Scores of Internet Services Including Google, Instagram, AWS, Twitter, Spotify, Discord, Shopify, TikTok Are Facing Outage, Users Say 65
Cloudflare Blocked a Massive 2 Tbps DDoS Attack 18
Firefox Relay Offers Unlimited Email Aliases as Part of its New Premium Plan 55
Emotet Botnet Returns After Law Enforcement Mass-Uninstall Operation 6
High Severity BIOS Flaws Affect Numerous Intel Processors 43
HPE Says Aruba Customer Data Compromised After Data Breach 2
Will Cryptocurrency Face a Quantum Computing Problem? 68
FBI Website Exploit Leads To Spam-Blast 'From' FBI.gov 14
Costco Disclosed Data Breach After Finding Credit Card Skimmer 17
Researchers Wait 12 Months To Report Vulnerability With 9.8 Out of 10 Severity Rating 36
Google Caught Hackers Using a Mac Zero-Day Against Hong Kong Users 13
The First Cracks In Sony's PS5 Firmware 45
REvil: Day of Reckoning For Notorious Cyber Gang 18
Robinhood Says It Was Hacked and Extorted But Nobody Lost Any Money 16
McAfee To Be Taken Private in $14 Billion Deal Including Debt 18
China Says a Foreign Spy Agency Hacked Its Airlines, Stole Passenger Records 20
New Book Warns CS Mindset and VC Industry are Ignoring Competing Values 116
CNN: Foreign Hackers Breached Nine Organizations to Steal 'Key Data' from 'Sensitive Targets' 28
SolarWinds Investors Allege Board Knew About Cyber Risks 12
Hackers Are Stealing Data Today So Quantum Computers Can Crack It In a Decade 75
N.L. Health-Care Cyberattack Is Worst In Canadian History 24
US Offers $10 Million Bounty For DarkSide Ransomware Operators 19
Microsoft Warns Windows 11 Features Are Failing Due To Its Expired Certificate 109
The Booming Underground Market for Bots That Steal Your 2FA Codes 91
Cyber Official Warns 'American Way of Life' at Risk From Hackers 42
Linux Foundation Adds Software Supply Chain Security To LFX 12
'Destructive' Cyberattack Hits National Bank of Pakistan 6
'Trojan Source' Bug Threatens the Security of All Code 88
Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella Says 'New Norms' Needed as 'Real Structural Changes' Rock Workplaces 93
Newly-Discovered 'AbstractEmu' Malware Rooted Android Devices, Evaded Detection 34
You Can Now Remotely Access Your Tesla's Camera - and Talk to People 41
The US Government Wants Signal's Private User Data That It Simply Doesn't Have 61
Hive Ransomware Now Encrypts Linux and FreeBSD Systems 26
Ransomware Has Disrupted Almost 1,000 Schools In the US This Year 7
Zales.com Leaked Customer Data, Just Like Sister Firms Jared and Kay Jewelers Did In 2018 14
A Security Bug in Health App Docket Exposed COVID-19 Vaccine Records 49
A Cyberattack Paralyzed Every Gas Station In Iran 36
DeFi Protocol Cream Finance Loses $130 Million in Latest Crypto Hack 27
Ransomware Gang Claims Attack on NRA 210
FBI Raids Chinese Point-of-Sale Giant PAX Technology 35
Indie Dev Finds That Linux Users Generate More, Better Bug Reports 58
Microsoft Says Russia Hacked at Least 14 IT Service Providers this Year 29
Digital Nomad Communities Want to Build the Infrastructure for an Internet Country 61
Traffic-Redirecting Rootkit Somehow Got a Microsoft-issued Digital Signature 26
The Man Who Stole and Then Sold Data on 178 Million Facebook Users Gets Sued by Facebook 70
Sinclair Workers Say TV Channels Are In 'Pandemonium' After Ransomware Attack 33
Bitcoin's Price Crashed 87% On Binance.US Thanks To a Bug 21
Intel Open-sources AI-powered Tool To Spot Bugs in Code 26
Governments Turn Tables On Ransomware Gang REvil By Pushing It Offline 20
GPSD Bug Will Switch Your Time-Keeping Systems To March 2002 This Weekend, Unless You Update 60
AMD and Microsoft Issue Fixes For Ryzen CPU Slowdowns On Windows 11 34
Google Unmasks Two-year-old Phishing and Malware Campaign Targeting YouTube Users 19
Gov. Parson Doubles Down on Push To Prosecute Reporter Who Found Security Flaw in State Site 185
Google Removes Support for FTP and Old-gen U2F Security Keys in Chrome 95 62
Sinclair Broadcast Hack Linked To Notorious Russian Cybergang 22
New FCC Rules Could Force Wireless Carriers To Block Spam Texts 45
About 26% of All Malicious JavaScript Threats Are Obfuscated 18
Hacker Steals Government ID Database for Argentina's Entire Population 41
Credit Card PINs Can Be Guessed Even When Covering the ATM Pad 58
US Treasury Says It Tied $5.2 Billion in BTC Transactions To Ransomware Payments 36
Sinclair TV Stations Disrupted Across the US After Ransomware Attack 59
International 'US Cyber Games' Competition Seeks Next Generation of Cybersecurity Experts 23
'Dirty Servers': The Untold Story of The Great Twitch Breach of 2014 8
Study Discovers Workers Maintained the Same Productivity With Shorter Work Weeks 172
US Govt Reveals Three More Ransomware Attacks on Water Treatment Plants This Year 10
Acer Confirms It Was Hacked Again As Culprits Flaunt 60GB of Stolen Customer Data 15
A Newspaper Informed Missouri About a Website Flaw. The Governor Accused it of 'Hacking' 120
Boeing Finds New Defect in Ongoing Struggle To Produce Dreamliner 787 35
Apple Argues Against Allowing App Sideloading By Pointing Out Android's Malware Figures 66
How Coinbase Phishers Steal One-Time Passwords 9
Some of Verizon's Visible Cell Network Customers Say They've Been Hacked 3
Activision Unveils Ricochet Anti-cheat System for Call of Duty 32
Windows 11's First Update Makes AMD CPU Performance Even Worse 50
Study Reveals Android Phones Constantly Snoop On Their Users 113
Woman Allegedly Hacked Flight School, Cleared Planes With Maintenance Issues To Fly 67
Coinbase is Launching a Marketplace for NFTs 18
Olympus Confirms US Cyberattack, Weeks After BlackMatter Ransomware Hit EMEA Systems 12
Microsoft Says It Mitigated a 2.4 Tbps DDoS Attack, the Largest Ever 39
Google Unveils Cybersecurity Programs and Action Team 21
LibreOffice, OpenOffice Bug Allows Hackers To Spoof Signed Docs 7
Microsoft Warns of New Windows 11 Problems With Apps Using Unusual Registry Keys 76
Google Pulls 'Stalkerware' Ads That Promoted Phone Spying Apps 9
'We're in a Hurry.' Qualcomm New CEO Scrambles To Cope With a Global Chip Crisis. 28
Is It Time to Stop Paying For a VPN? 113
What Really Motivated the Breaches of Twitch and Epik? 21
New 'FontOnLake' Malware Family Can Target Linux Systems 26
New Data: Tech Companies Expand Hiring From 'Tech Hubs' to 'All Over The Place' 28
Google Warns 14,000 Gmail Users Targeted By Russian Hackers 13
BrewDog Exposes Data of 200,000 Customers and Shareholders 13
Facebook Says Some of Its Services Are Having Issues Again 32
Google To Give Security Keys To 'High Risk' Users Targeted by Government Hackers 23
Twitch Defaced With Pictures of Jeff Bezos 18
Car Thieves Arrested After Using $27,000 Game Boy Device 104
Hackers of SolarWinds Stole Data On US Sanctions Policy, Intelligence Probes 12
Microsoft: Russia Behind 58% of Detected State-backed Hacks 33
Microsoft Makes a Mouse From Recycled Ocean Plastic 49
Twitch's Security Problems Started Long Before This Week's Hack 19
US To Tell Critical Rail, Air Companies To Report Hacks, Name Cyber Chiefs 23
Navy Facebook Account Hacked To Stream 'Age of Empires' 37
How Downdetector Has Become Go-To Site for Online Disruptions 26
Twitch Source Code and Business Data Leaked 66
Google Is About To Turn On Two-Factor Authentication By Default For Millions of Users 108
Telegram Founder Says Over 70 Million New Users Joined During Facebook Outage 50
Ransomware Bill Would Give Victims 48 Hours To Report Payments 89
Apache Fixes Actively Exploited Web Server Zero-day 34
UK Plans To Invest 5 Billion Pounds In Retaliatory Cyberattacks 57
Ukrainian Cops Cuff Two Over $150 Million Ransomware Gang Allegations, Seize $1.3 Million In Cryptocurrency 8
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus Have Been Suffering Global Outage For More Than 3 Hours Now [Update] 252
Researcher Refuses Telegram's Bounty Award, Discloses Auto-Delete Bug 6
Company That Routes Billions of Text Messages Quietly Discloses It Was Hacked 33
Millions Experience Browser Problems After Long-Anticipated Expiration of 'Let's Encrypt' Certificate 94
Neiman Marcus Discloses a 2020 Data Breach That Impacted 4.6 Million Customers 11
Hackers Bypass Coinbase 2FA To Steal Customer Funds 13
Microsoft Announces Office 2021 Features and Pricing 102
Former OnlyFans Employees Could Access Users' and Models' Personal Information 18
Apple Pay With Visa Hacked To Make Payments Via Unlocked iPhones 48
Telegram Bots Are Trying To Steal Your One-time Passwords 12
New USB-C Logos Make Picking USB Cables, Chargers Less Confusing 87
Chinese Espionage Group Deploys New Rootkit Compatible With Windows 10 Systems 18
Anonymous: We've Leaked Disk Images Stolen From Web Host Epik 107
iOS 15 Messages Bug Causes Saved Photos to Be Deleted 37
New GriftHorse Malware Infects More Than 10 Million Android Phones 30
Apple AirTag Bug Enables 'Good Samaritan' Attack 29
German IT Security Watchdog Examines Xiaomi Mobile Phone 16
Russian Authorities Arrest Cybersecurity Giant Group-IB's CEO on Treason Charges 30
Microsoft Knew of Exchange Autodiscover Flaw Five Years Ago 22
NSA, CISA Publish Guide for Securing VPN Servers 31
1Password Adds Its Own 'Hide My Email' Feature 36
Cloudflare Is Taking a Shot at Email Security 46
With HTTPS Everywhere, EFF Begins Plans to Eventually Deprecate 'HTTPS Everywhere' Extension 48
VoIP.ms Battles Week-Long Sustained DDoS-for-Ransom Attack 37
Microsoft Rushes To Register Autodiscover Domains Leaking Credentials 20
ExpressVPN Employees Complain About Ex-Spy's Top Role At Company 28
UK Airports Briefly Snarled By Border Force Software Outage 6
Researcher Dumps Three iOS Zero-days After Apple Failed To Fix Issues for Months 64
Hackers Breached Computer Network At Key US Port But Did Not Disrupt Operations 17
2021 Has Broken the Record For Zero-Day Hacking Attacks 17
Today's Students Don't Understand the Basics of Computer Operations 493
YouTube Tests Video Downloads for Your Desktop Browser 37
Catalogue of Errors Led To $1.36 Billion of State Pension Underpayments 36
US Committee Is Reviewing Zoom's $14.7 Billion Deal For Five9 On National-Security Grounds 11
FBI Held Back Ransomware Decryption Key From Businesses To Run Operation Targeting Hackers 45

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