IT Stories for 2022

Nearly One In Two Industry Pros Scaled Back Open Source Use Over Security Fears 60
Breach of Software Maker Used To Backdoor Ecommerce Servers 9
Microsoft Teams Stores Auth Tokens As Cleartext In Windows, Linux, Macs 32
US Cyber-Defense Agency Urges Companies To Automate Threat Testing 13
Five Years of Data Show That SSDs Are More Reliable Than HDDs Over the Long Haul 82
China Accuses the NSA of Hacking a Top University To Steal Data 82
Retbleed Fix Slugs Linux VM Performance By Up To 70 Percent 33
Powerful New Linux Malware Shikitega Uses Unusual Multi-Stage Stealth 22
Laying Off Five Security Staffers, Patreon Disputes Reports It's Their Entire Security Team 32
New Wave of Data-Destroying Ransomware Attacks Hits QNAP NAS Devices 23
Former Conti Ransomware Gang Members Helped Target Ukraine, Google Says 13
Albania Cuts Diplomatic Ties With Iran Over July Cyberattack 23
As Ex-Uber Executive Heads To Trial, the Security Community Reels 67
Scientists Create Cyborg Cockroaches Controlled By Solar-Powered Backpacks 30
China Accuses US of 'Tens of Thousands' of Cyberattacks 42
Los Angeles School District Warns of Disruption As It Battles Ongoing Ransomware Attack 25
Google Chrome Emergency Update Fixes New Zero-Day Used in Attacks 15
TikTok Denies Reports That It's Been Hacked 26
After 'Quiet Quitting', Here Comes 'Quiet Firing' 231
Peter Eckersley, Co-Creator of Let's Encrypt, Dies at 43 35
Microsoft Investigates Bug That Mistakenly Flags Chromium-Based Apps as Malware 44
14-Year-Old Cracks Australian Coin's Code - in One Hour 58
How 1-Time Passcodes Became a Corporate Liability 53
Samsung Says Customer Data Stolen in July Data Breach 7
Royal Australian Mint Releases Coin With Code-Breaking Challenge In the Design 41
Major VPN Services Shut Down In India Over Anti-Privacy Law 9
Shopify Warns Merchants Against Using Amazon's 'Buy With Prime' Service 17
Someone Hacked Largest Taxi Service In Russia, Ordered All Available Taxis To the Same Location 64
USB4 v2 Will Support Speeds Up To 80 Gbps 117
Apple Releases Rare iOS 12 Update To Address Security Flaw On Older iPhones, iPads 22
Dashlane Is Ready To Replace All Your Passwords With Passkeys 37
Who Pays for an Act of Cyberwar? 34
Google's Open-Source Bug Bounty Aims To Clamp Down on Supply Chain Attacks 3
Drop Launches the Sense75, Its First New In-House Keyboard Since 2020 37
YouTube Now Controls Its Hardware Roadmap 29
Microsoft Launches Arm-based Azure VMs Powered by Ampere Chips 13
Google Experiences Hundreds of Covid Cases After Return-to-Office Mandate 227
Eight-Year Study Finds 24,931 WordPress Sites Using Malicious Plugins 25
Criminals Posting Counterfeit Microsoft Products To Get Access To Victims' Computers 23
Twilio Hackers Breached Over 130 Organizations During Months-Long Hacking Spree 9
LastPass Hackers Stole Source Code 46
Heroku Announces Plans To Eliminate Free Plans, Blaming 'Fraud and Abuse' 9
DuckDuckGo Opens Up Its Free Email Privacy Service To Everyone 41
Google's Fuchsia OS is Taking Over Smart Displays, Now on Its Second Device 23
Linux 6.1 Will Make It A Bit Easier To Help Spot Faulty CPUs 16
Websites Can Identify If You're Using iPhone's New 'Lockdown' Mode 55
Hackers Are Breaking Into and Emptying Cash App Accounts 39
Experts Warn of Widespread Exploitation Involving Hikvision Cameras 12
Bay Area Startup Wants To Make Call Center Workers Sound 'White and American' 174
Apple's Repair Program Creates 'Excruciating Gauntlet of Hurdles', iFixit Says 63
Ethereum Foundation Confirms September Dates for the Merge 33
Plex Breach Exposes Usernames, Emails and Encrypted Passwords 43
Streaming Service Crunchyroll Blocks Privacy-Focused Email Tutanota Because 'Hackers Use It' 43
Microsoft Might Finally Simplify Its Windows 11 Update Names 21
Microsoft Finds Critical Hole In ChromeOS 31
Hackers Used Deepfake of Binance CCO To Perform Exchange Listing Scams 12
Hyundai Uses Example Keys For Encryption System 107
Israeli Spyware Company NSO Group CEO Steps Down 15
Why Stacking Chips Like Pancakes Could Mean a Huge Leap for Laptops 46
Encrypting Facebook Messenger Could Be a 'Grotesque Betrayal', Says Top UK Politician 97
Employers are Tracking Employees' 'Productivity' - Sometimes Badly 122
How Google Cloud Blocked the Largest Web DDOS Attack Ever 11
Free, Secure, and Open-Source: How FileZilla is Making an Old School Protocol Cool Again 41
Hackers Are Stealing Session Cookies To Bypass Multi-factor Authentication 28
Apple Demands Employees Return to Office At Least Three Days a Week 175
Semiconductor Makers Scramble to Support New Post-Quantum Cryptography Standard 40
The New USB Rubber Ducky Is More Dangerous Than Ever 47
Erik Prince Wants To Sell You a 'Secure' Smartphone That's Too Good To Be True 86
PayPal Phishing Scam Uses Invoices Sent Via PayPal 17
Def Con Banned a Social Engineering Star - Now He's Suing 79
Qualcomm Is Plotting a Return To Server Market With New Chip 13
Nvidia GeForce Now on Chrome is Getting a Big Upgrade To 1440p and 120fps 9
North Korean Hackers Use Signed macOS Malware To Target IT Job Seekers 14
Microsoft Employees Exposed Own Company's Internal Logins 8
VLC-Developer VideoLan Says India Blocking Site Endangers Its Own Citizens 23
1,900 Signal Users' Phone Numbers Exposed By Twilio Phishing 8
Update Zoom For Mac Now To Avoid Root-Access Vulnerability 24
Confronting an Ancient Indian Hierarchy, Apple and IBM Ban Discrimation By Caste 181
The Organized Labor Movement Has a New Ally: Venture Capitalists 52
Ransomware Causes 'Major', Long-Lasting Outage for UK Health Service's Patient Notes 26
Google's New Bug Bounties Include Their Custom Linux Kernel's Experimental Security Mitigations 5
The Hacking of Starlink Terminals Has Begun 48
Microsoft Urges Windows Users To Run Patch For DogWalk Zero-Day Exploit 15
Facebook Will Begin Testing End-To-End Encryption As Default On Messenger App 13
Microsoft Sues Activation Key and Token Sellers For Enabling Customers' Piracy 41
Raspberry Pi-Powered Anti-Tracking Tool Checks If You're Being Followed 79
Researchers Find Vulnerability In Software Underlying Discord, Microsoft Teams, and Other Apps 23
Email Marketing Firm Mailchimp Suspends Several Crypto-Related Accounts 29
Google To Stop Giving Answers To Silly Questions 90
Cisco Hacked By Yanluowang Ransomware Gang, 2.8GB Allegedly Stolen 21
AMD Continues PC and Server Market Share Gains Amid Slumping Demand 34
One of 5G's Biggest Features Is a Security Minefield 42
DNSFilter Acquires iOS Firewall App Guardian 1
Curve Finance Front End UI Compromised In DNS Hack 12
Windows 11 Encryption Bug Could Cause Data Loss, Temporary Slowdowns On Newer PCs 28
SGX, Intel's Supposedly Impregnable Data Fortress, Has Been Breached Yet Again 23
Someone Is Trolling Celebs by Sending ETH From Tornado Cash 30
7-Eleven Stores In Denmark Closed Due To a Cyberattack 32
Twilio Hacked by Phishing Campaign Targeting Internet Companies 10
Class Action Alleges Experian Didn't Stop Identity Thieves from Hijacking Accounts 16
Twitter Confirms Vulnerability Exposed Data of Anonymous Account Owners 17
'Huge Flaw' Threatens US Emergency Alert System, DHS Researcher Warns 26
Diving into Digital Ephemera: Identifying Defunct URLs in the Web Archives 7
Solana Hack Blamed on Slope Mobile Wallet Exploit 11
Over 3,200 Apps Leak Twitter API Keys, Some Allowing Account Hijacks 6
WhatsApp Boss Says No To AI Filters Policing Encrypted Chat 38
New Gmail Attack Bypasses Passwords and 2FA To Read All Email 37
Attacks on Taiwan Websites Likely Work of Chinese 'Hacktivists' 24
Forsage Crypto Executives Charged With Running $300 Million Ponzi Scheme 12
Post-Quantum Encryption Contender is Taken Out by Single-Core PC and 1 Hour 45
US Crypto Firm Nomad Hit By $190 Million Theft 30
Indonesia Unblocks Steam and Yahoo, But Fortnite and FIFA Are Still Banned 4
Thousands of Lives Depend on a Transplant Network in Need of 'Vast Restructuring' 30
Microsoft Outlook Is Crashing When Reading Uber Receipt Emails 45
Hackers Stole Passwords for Accessing 140,000 Payment Terminals 8
Anonymous Hacktivists Breach Russian Databases, Leak 'Massive' Amounts of Data 80
Australian Teenager Sold Remote-Access Spyware To 14,500 People, Earned $300,000 22
Proxy Service 911[.]re Closes After Disclosing Breach and Data Damage 4
The Story Behind Google's In-house Desktop Linux 60
Amazon is Shutting Down Its Cloud Storage Service Amazon Drive 29
0-Days Sold By Austrian Firm Used To Hack Windows Users, Microsoft Says 25
Justice Department Investigating Data Breach of Federal Court System 18
Axie Infinity CEO Moved Crypto Tokens Before the Company Revealed Hack 11
Discovery of New UEFI Rootkit Exposes an Ugly Truth: The Attacks Are Invisible To Us 118
Average Data Breach Costs Hit a Record $4.4 Million, Report Says 15
Codebreakers Find 'Sexts,' Arctic Dispatches In 200-Year-Old Encrypted Newspaper Ads 28
A Newly Discovered Malware Hijacks Facebook Business Accounts 7
China Targeted Fed To Build Informant Network and Access Data, Probe Finds 31
Source Code For Rust-Based Info-Stealer Released On Hacker Forums 22
Google Chrome Security Update Fixes 'High Risk' Flaws 10
To Thwart Ransomware, Microsoft's Windows Gets New Defaults Limiting Brute-Force Password Guessing 54
T-Mobile Announces $350M Settlement Over Data Breach - Plus $150M Security Upgrade 18
Twitter Data Breach Exposes Contact Details for 5.4M Accounts, on Sale for $30K 22
Microsoft Will Block Office Macros By Default Starting July 27 35
A Small Canadian Town Is Being Extorted By a Global Ransomware Gang 40
Hardcoded Password In Confluence Leaked On Twitter 30
UK Cybersecurity Chiefs Back Plan To Scan Phones for Child Abuse Images 73
The Windows 11 Taskbar is Getting Better for People Who Open Tons of Apps 66
Russian Hackers Behind SolarWinds Are Now Hiding Malware In Google Drive 10
No NFTs in Minecraft, Mojang Says 23
Biden Administration Pushes To Close the Growing Cybersecurity Workforce Gap 104
Critical Flaws In GPS Tracker Enable 'Disastrous' and 'Life-Threatening' Hacks 38
Russia Released a Ukrainian App For Hacking Russia That Was Actually Malware 19
Hack the Pump: Rising Prices Lead To More Reports of Gas Theft 113
Google, Oracle Cloud Servers Wilt in UK Heatwave, Take Down Websites 61
US 'Disrupted' North Korean Hackers Who Breached Health Sector 13
Apple Reaches $50 Million Settlement Over Defective MacBook Keyboards 44
Homeland Security Records Show 'Shocking' Use of Phone Data, ACLU Says 47
Canceled Mid-Range Surface Duo Leaks With Dual-Camera Array and Plastic Exterior 12
Hybrid Work Makes Amazon, Meta, Others Reevaluate Office Expansion Plans 68
How One Company Survived a Ransomware Attack Without Paying the Ransom 60
71 US Cities Are Now Paying Tech Workers to Abandon Silicon Valley. And It's Working 76
Newest Remote Working Trend: Nobody Wants to Be in the Office on Fridays 121
Doom Hacker Gets Doom Running in Doom 30
Google's Chrome OS Flex is Now Available for Old PCs and Macs 60
Twitter Outage Hits Thousands, Downdetector Reports 46
Lenovo Patches UEFI Code Execution Vulnerability Affecting More Than 70 Laptop Models 20
Elden Ring Gaming Giant Bandai Namco Says Hackers May Have Stolen Customer Data 7
Gmail Users 'Hard Pass' On Plan To Let Political Emails Bypass Spam Filters 62
System76's Launch Lite Keyboard Ditches the USB Hub In Favor of a Smaller Form Factor 27
Almost Everyone Faced an Industrial Attack in the Last Year 9
New Working Speculative Execution Attack Sends Intel and AMD Scrambling 66
X.Org Server Hit By New Local Privilege Escalation, Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities 24
PyPI Is Rolling Out 2FA For Critical Projects, Giving Away 4,000 Security Keys 19
Hackers Uncover Ways To Unlock and Start Nearly All Modern Honda-Branded Vehicles 40
Microsoft Still Plans To Block Office Macros By Default After Temporary Rollback 25
Experian, You Have Some Explaining To Do 60
What Makes Workers 'Thrive'? Microsoft Study Suggests Shorter Workweeks and Less Collaboration 125
FCC Cracks Down On Spam 'Auto Warranty' Robocalls 111
Most Government Websites Serve Tracking Cookies Without Consent, Report Finds 27
Web3 Projects Have Lost More Than $2 Billion To Hacks This Year 19
Google Tests Battery-Conserving Feature Perfect for Hoarding Tabs 20
Microsoft Rolls Back Blocking Office VBA Macros By Default 33
Twitter Says It Removes Over 1 Million Spam Accounts Each Day 35
Meta is Dumping Facebook Logins as Its Metaverse ID System 36
UK Could Force E2E Encrypted Platforms To Do CSAM-Scanning 106
MI5 and FBI Heads Issue Joint Warning On Chinese Spying 67
Apple Launches iPhone Security Tool To Block Targeted Attacks 37
Hotel Giant Marriott Confirms Yet Another Data Breach 15
Inside the Dying Art of Subtitling 116
FedEx To Close Data Centers, Retire All Mainframes By 2024, Saving $400 Million 112
Microsoft Finds 'Raspberry Robin' Worm in Hundreds of Windows Networks 61
How Bug Bounty Platform HackerOne Handled Its Own 'Internal Threat' Actor 14
Reuters: 'How Mercenary Hackers Sway Litigation Battles' 7
Google Launches Advanced API Security To Protect APIs From Growing Threats 6
Russians Are Searching For Pirated Microsoft Products and Switching To Linux 52
How Mercenary Hackers Sway Litigation Battles 7
Employee Shared OpenSea User Email Addresses With an 'Unauthorized' Party 8
A Wide Range of Routers Are Under Attack By New, Unusually Sophisticated Malware 45
Gmail's Redesigned Interface, Featuring Chat and Meet, Now the New Default 15
Windows 10's 22H2 Update Might Not Actually Do Much of Anything 35
Cyber Pirates Prowling Ship Controls Threaten Another Big Shock 34
Google Moves To Keep Campaign Messages Out of Spam 138
RansomHouse Extortion Group Claims AMD as Its Latest Victim 16
Google Warns ISPs Helped Distribute Hermit Spyware 15
Google Hangouts is Shutting Down in November 24
Base 13-Inch MacBook Pro With M2 Chip Has Significantly Slower SSD Speeds 85
How a Turkish Municipal District Switched to GNU/Linux 76
Stack Overflow Survey Finds Developers Like Rust, Python, JavaScript and Remote Work 97
Russia's Cyberattacks Thwarted by Ukraine, Microsoft, Google, and Western Intelligence 37
Are 'Google Programmers' the New 'Next-Next-Finish Programmers'? 203
Linux Kernel Signature Verification Code Adds FIPS Compliance 20
Microsoft Will Start Banning Players From All Private Minecraft Servers 78
Microsoft Prepares To Forget About Windows 8.1 With End of Support Notifications 100
NSA Shares Tips On Securing Windows Devices With PowerShell 38
PCI Express 7.0 Standard Provides Eight Times the Bandwidth of Today's Connections 52
Google is Notifying Android Users Targeted By Hermit Government-Grade Spyware 8
Security Flaws in Internet-Connected Hot Tubs Exposed Owners' Personal Data 59
Russia Launched Cyber Espionage Campaigns Against Ukraine Allies, Microsoft Says 26
Brave Search Passes 2.5 Billion Queries in Its First Year 39
Mega Says It Can't Decrypt Your Files. New POC Exploit Shows Otherwise 52
Adobe Acrobat May Block Antivirus Tools From Monitoring PDF Files 43
There Are 24.6 Billion Pairs of Credentials For Sale On Dark Web 57
Why Paper Receipts Are Money At the Drive-Thru 183
iOS 16 Will Let iPhone Users Bypass CAPTCHAs in Supported Apps and Websites 34
A Linux Botnet That Spreads Using Stolen SSH Keys 40
Microsoft Dismisses False Reports On End of Patch Tuesday 14
Researchers Claim Travis CI API Leaks 'Tens of Thousands' of User Tokens 7
Cisco Says It Won't Fix Zero-Day RCE In End-of-Life VPN Routers 52
Internet Explorer Gravestone Goes Viral in South Korea 36
A New Vulnerability in Intel and AMD CPUs Lets Hackers Steal Encryption Keys 30
Keychron's Q3 Gives Mechanical Keyboard Fans Everything But the Numpad 135
Email Client K-9 Mail Will Become Thunderbird for Android 46
Google Talk, Surprisingly Still Operational, Ends on Thursday 35
Microsoft Will End Support For Most Versions of Internet Explorer on June 15 90
Two Tech CEOs Wanted Every Worker to Have a Permanent, Publicly-Available Job Performance File 153
Cybersecurity Products Rarely Live Up To Marketing Claims: RSA Panel 34
US Anti-Hacking Law Tested in Trial Over 2019 Capitol One Data Breach 39
Symbiote: A New, Nearly-Impossible-to-Detect Linux Threat 43
The New Spectre-Like 'PACMAN' Flaw Could Affect ARM-Based Chips (including Apple's M1) 24
MIT Researchers Uncover 'Unpatchable' Flaw in Apple M1 Chips 56
'Superworms' Can Digest Styrofoam, Australian Scientists Find 54
Chrome Will Now Silence Many of Those Annoying Notification Permission Prompts on the Web 83
Vivaldi Email Client Released 7 Years After First Announcement 42
US: Chinese Government Hackers Breached Telcos To Snoop On Network Traffic 29
FBI Seizes Notorious Marketplace for Selling Millions of Stolen SSNs 27
Salesforce Takes Crypto Plunge With New NFT Cloud 33
MacOS Will Soon Block Unknown USB-C Accessories By Default 175
Who Needs Modern Emacs? 135
MongoDB 6.0 Brings Encrypted Queries, Time-Series Data Collection 53
Apple is Finally Adding Some of Gmail's Best Features To Its Own Email Apps 53
LastPass No Longer Requires a Password To Access Your Vault 29
Italian City of Palermo Shuts Down All Systems To Fend Off Cyberattack 11
Apple 'Passkeys' Could Finally Kill Off the Password For Good 141
Ukrainian Officials' Phones Targeted By Hackers 34
Companies Are Having Trouble Enforcing Return-to-Office Policies 349
Microsoft Tries Collaborating with Unions to Avoid 'Public Disputes' 40
An Actively Exploited Microsoft Zero-Day Flaw Still Has No Patch 38
EU Deal on Single Mobile Charging Port Likely June 7 in Setback for Apple 151
Russian Hacking Gang Evil Corp Shifts Its Extortion Strategy After Sanctions 20

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