IT Stories for 2022

Cyber Command Chief Confirms US Took Part in Offensive Cyber Operations 69
Connecticut Will Pay a Security Analyst 150K To Monitor Election Memes 140
FBI Blocked Planned Cyberattack on Children's Hospital 35
Should IT Professionals Be Liable for Ransomware Attacks? 250
New Linux-Based Ransomware Targets VMware Servers 36
Google is Rolling Out Chrome 102 with 32 Security Fixes, One Critical 10
Omnipotent BMCs From Quanta Remain Vulnerable To Critical Pantsdown Threat 14
GoodWill Ransomware Forces Victims To Donate To the Poor 22
Larger-than-30TB Hard Drives Are Coming Much Sooner Than Expected 66
Google Opens Up Chrome and Chrome OS To Enterprise Security, Control Integrations 10
Senate Report Finds Government is Unprepared To Stop Ransomware Attacks 48
ProtonMail Unifies Encrypted Mail, Calendar, VPN, and Storage Services Under New 'Proton' Brand 37
Russian Hackers Are Linked To New Brexit Leak Website, Google Says 68
'Tough To Forge' Digital Driver's License is Easy To Forge 87
Google Brings Street View History To Phones, Introduces 'Street View Studio' 4
Microsoft Launches Power Pages for Designing Business Websites 25
Microsoft Will Support Third-Party Windows 11 Widgets Later This Year 30
Windows 11 CPU Usage Reporting is Apparently Buggy, Including on Task Manager 41
Zola Says User Accounts Were Hacked, But Still Doesn't Offer 2FA 18
Hollywood Designer 6.0 Released: Now a 'Full-Blown Multimedia Authoring System' 20
Biggest Targets at Pwn2Own Event: Microsoft's Windows, Teams, and Ubuntu Desktop 17
How a Rust Supply-Chain Attack Infected Cloud CI Pipelines with Go Malware 45
Microsoft Warns of 'Stealthy DDoS Malware' Targeting Linux Devices 76
The Math Prodigy Whose Hack Upended DeFi Won't Give Back His Millions 119
2 Vulnerabilities With 9.8 Severity Ratings Are Under Exploit. A 3rd Looms 9
DOJ Says It Won't Prosecute White Hat Security Researchers 38
The Passwords Most Used By CEOs Are Startlingly Dumb 110
Ransomware Attackers Get Short Shrift From Zambian Central Bank 13
Hong Kong Considers Blocking Telegram As Part of Crackdown On Doxing 25
Angry IT Admin Wipes Employer's Databases, Gets 7 Years In Prison 83
Ransomware Gang Threatens To Overthrow Costa Rica Government 14
Microsoft Names Info-Stealers That Target Crypto Wallets 'Cryware' 12
Google Will Start Distributing a Security-Vetted Collection of Open-Source Software Libraries 28
Researchers Devise iPhone Malware That Runs Even When Device Is Turned Off 54
Apple Patches Dozens of Security Flaws With iOS 15.5, Over 50 Fixes For macOS 12.4 21
Red Hat CEO: Remote Working is 'Just Another Day' to the Open Source World 35
Hackers Are Exploiting WordPress Tools to Hawk Scams 13
Security Expert Nabs Expired Domain for a Popular NPM Library's Email Address 16
White House Joins OpenSSF, Linux Foundation In Securing Open-Source Software 46
Hackers Are Using SEO To Rank Malicious PDFs On Search Engines, Research Finds 13
Elon Musk Says Twitter Deal 'Temporarily On Hold Over Spam' 138
EU Governments, Lawmakers Agree on Tougher Cybersecurity Rules for Key Sectors 14
NSA Says 'No Backdoor' for Spies in New US Encryption Scheme 99
'It's 2022, Phones Should Be Built To Last Five Years or More' 215
End-To-End Encryption Is Coming To Google Messages Group Texts 11
New EU Rules Would Require Chat Apps To Scan Private Messages for Child Abuse 204
Hackers Are Actively Exploiting BIG-IP Vulnerability With a 9.8 Severity Rating 36
Hackers Are Now Hiding Malware In Windows Event Logs 49
Illinois College, Hit By Ransomware Attack, To Shut Down 58
Apple's Return-to-Office Policy Leaves Many Workers Unhappy, AI Expert Quits 230
Russia Hit With 'Unprecedented' Breaches By Pro-Ukrainian Cyberattackers 40
Programmers, Managers, Agile, and Failures: Software's Long Crisis 152
California's Population Declined in Pandemic's Second Year 109
Did the Pandemic Normalize Employee-Monitoring Software? 92
Heroku Admits That Customer Credentials Were Stolen In Cyberattack 4
Google Docs Crashes On Seeing 'And. And. And. And. And.' 63
Ukrainians DDoS Russian Vodka Supply Chains 60
A Typo Sent $36 Million of Crypto Into the Ether 141
VPN Providers Threaten To Quit India Over New Data Law 26
Apple, Google, and Microsoft Want To Kill the Password With 'Passkey' Standard 195
GitHub Will Require All Code Contributors To Use 2FA 100
'Tired' Carl Sagan Fan Sells Wormhole.com To Crypto Giant Jump for $50K After Lawsuit 120
Russia May Force Tech-Savvy Prisoners To Perform Low-Cost IT Work For Companies, Report Says 78
Botnet That Hid For 18 Months 12
CDC Tracked Millions of Phones To See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders 65
PCWorld: Six Months Since Release, Windows 11 Still 'Unnecessary' 138
A Stealthy New Espionage Group is Targeting Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions 6
Apple Lawsuit Says 'Stealth' Startup Poached Engineers To Steal Secrets 35
Chrome's Latest Update: 30 Security Fixes and Bug Details Kept 'Restricted' 28
Google Rewards Employees Returning to Office with Private Lizzo Concert 158
Are Workers Finally Returning to Offices in San Francisco? 141
US Seeks to Steal Putin's Top Scientists by Loosening Their Visa Requirements 170
After Microsoft Releases Patch for RPC Exploit: What the Honeypot Saw 9
'Why the Heck Are SSNs Still Treated as Passwords in the US?' 174
Private Equity Executive Sought To Undermine NSO Critics, Data Suggests 10
Microsoft Testing Integrated VPN 'Secure Network' in Edge 35
Cloudflare Detects One of the Largest DDoS Attacks on Record Targeting Crypto Platform 8
Microsoft Finds Linux Desktop Flaw That Gives Root To Untrusted Users 75
Russian Hacking in Ukraine Has Been Extensive and Intertwined With Military Operations, Microsoft Says 18
Apple Launches Do-It-Yourself Repairs For iPhone 13, iPhone 12 and iPhone SE, But There's a Catch 58
Concerns Raised Over The 'New' NTFS Linux Driver That Merged Last Year 90
Hackers Reportedly Target Wind-Energy Companies In Europe 31
At Least $13M in NFTs Stolen After Bored Ape Yacht Club Instagram, Discord Hacked 62
The Pros and Cons of a Future Without Passwords 123
Former NSA Computer Scientist: Patching Vulnerabilities Gives False Sense of Security 112
A Bug in Google Messages Might Be Draining Your Battery 24
Microsoft Is Disabling SMB1 File-Sharing Protocol in Windows 11 Home 105
EU Consumer Protection Committee Votes To Expand Scope of Common Charger Rules 132
FaceTime Users Bombarded With Group Call Spam 49
Insteon Looks Dead, Just Like Its Users' Smart Homes 133
Hackers Can Infect Over 100 Lenovo Models With Unremovable Malware 43
Bosses Don't Follow Their Own Advice In Returning To the Office 97
Former EBay Security Director To Plead Guilty To Cyberstalking 16
DuckDuckGo Insists It Didn't 'Purge' Piracy Sites From Search Results 33
Google Docs Starts Nudging Some Users To Write Less Dumbly 72
Researchers Break World Record For Quantum-Encrypted Communications 53
Americans Are Drowning In Spam 134
Web Scraping is Legal, US Appeals Court Reaffirms 78
British Encryption Startup Arqit Overstates Its Prospects, Former Staff and Others Say 19
Catalan Independence Leaders Targeted By Spyware, Rights Group Says 30
DeFi Project Beanstalk Loses $182 Million in Flash Loan Attack 67
GitHub Issues Security Alert After Spotting Misuse of Tokens Stolen from OAuth Integrators 16
'How Cryptocurrency Gave Birth to the Ransomware Epidemic' 47
Cisco's Webex App Phoned Home Audio Telemetry Even When Muted 23
Cybercriminals Are Doing Their Homework in Latest Banking Scam 29
Google Issues Third Emergency Fix for Chrome This Year 24
Git For Windows Issues Update To Fix Running-Someone-Else's-Code Vulnerability 12
US Warns New Sophisticated Malware Can Target ICS/SCADA Devices 15
Inside the Longest Atlassian Outage of All Time 94
Russia's Sandworm Hackers Attempted a Third Blackout In Ukraine 40
Dell Trials 4-Day Workweek In Netherlands 36
Ukraine Says Russian Cyberattack Sought To Shut Down Energy Grid 19
US and European Partners Take Down Hacker Website RaidForums 6
US Military Makes 'Significant Effort' in Quantum-Resistant Cryptography 48
Do Developers Benefit From Fewer Choices? 108
Raspberry Pi OS Ditches Longtime User Account For Security Reasons 21
Fed-up Managers Declare Work From Home is Over 289
New Windows 11 Security Feature Will Require a PC Reset 130
Global IT Spending Expected To Surpass $4.4 Trillion in 2022 4
Facebook Says Ukraine Military Accounts Were Hacked To Post Calls For Surrender 25
Nvidia Won't Make You Sign Into Steam or Epic To Try Its Free New Cloud Gaming Demos 33
Chinese Hackers Abuse VLC Media Player To Launch Malware Loader 58
FBI Operation Aims To Take Down Massive Russian GRU Botnet 12
Hackers Stole More Than $600 Million in Crypto. Laundering It Is the Tricky Part. 60
AMD Confirms Its GPU Drivers Are Overclocking CPUs Without Asking 73
Microsoft Launches a New Remote Help Service For IT Teams 22
Block Confirms Cash App Breach After Former Employee Accessed US Customer Data 17
Border Patrol's Use of Amazon's Wickr Messaging App Draws Scrutiny 19
Mailchimp Says an Internal Tool Was Used To Breach Hundreds of Accounts 13
Google Cloud Security Exec: Government Reliance on Microsoft Is a Security Vulnerability 64
Ubiquiti Files Case Against Security Blogger Krebs Over 'False Accusations' 32
Critical GitLab Vulnerability Lets Attackers Take Over Accounts 3
Wyze Cam Security Flaw Gave Hackers Access To Video; Went Unfixed For Almost Three Years 24
Apple and Meta Gave User Data to Hackers Who Used Forged Legal Requests 32
Lapsus$ Gang Claims New Hack With Data From Apple Health Partner 5
Former Yale Employee Admits She Stole $40 Million In Electronics From University 76
Log4Shell Exploited To Infect VMware Horizon Servers With Backdoors, Crypto Miners 10
Hackers Steal $600M From Play-to-Earn Game Axie Infinity's Ronin Network 38
Microsoft is Finally Making it Easier To Switch Default Browsers in Windows 11 39
Hackers Gaining Power of Subpoena Via Fake 'Emergency Data Requests' 57
Australia Cyber Defence Bolstered by $10 Billion via Project REDSPICE 22
Security Experts Say New EU Rules Will Damage WhatsApp Encryption 169
Lapsus$ Found a Spreadsheet of Passwords as They Breached Okta, Documents Show 39
Ukrainian Telecom Company's Internet Service Disrupted By 'Powerful' Cyberattack 6
'Most Severe' Cyberattack Since Russian Invasion Crashes Ukraine Internet Provider 7
Microsoft Security Chief Issues Call To Arms To Protect Metaverse 40
Is Burnout Just a Sign of a Broken Labor System? 93
That Big Tech Exodus Out of California? It Didn't Happen 107
To Help Retain Engineers, Apple Gives $100K-$200K Bonuses 29
Kaspersky Named First Russian Company on Security Risk List 62
Netflix Could Reap $1.6 Billion Per Year By Charging Password-Sharing Users Extra Fees, Analysts Say 118
UK Police Arrest 7 People In Connection With Lapsus$ Hacks 9
Nestle: Anonymous Can't Hack Us, We Leaked Our Own Data 51
Google Says It Thwarted North Korean Cyberattacks in Early 2022 3
Teen Suspected By Cyber Researchers of Being Lapsus$ Mastermind 17
How Microsoft Plans To Fill 3.5 Million Cybersecurity Jobs 31
Two Years After Chrome and Edge, Firefox is Getting AV1 Hardware Acceleration 44
Microsoft Says Digital Extortion Gang Lapsus$ Targets Cryptocurrency, Too 9
Authentication Firm Okta Probes Report of Digital Breach 44
Browser-in-the-Browser Attack Can Trick Even Savvy Users 46
Microsoft Investigating Claims of Hacked Source Code Repositories 26
Biden Urges American Firms To 'Harden' Cyber-Defenses Against Russia 22
Criminals Are Staging a Devious New Kind of Kidnapping - and the FBI is Stumped. 43
HubSpot Hack Leads To Data Breaches at BlockFi, Swan Bitcoin, NYDIG and Circle 4
CafePress's Previous Owner Fined $500,000 for 'Shoddy' Security, Covering up Data Breach 24
How to Eliminate the World's Need for Passwords 166
Facebook is Locking Out People Who Didn't Activate Facebook Protect 42
CISA, FBI Warn of Threats To US Satellite Networks After Viasat Cyberattack 7
Microsoft Defender Tags Office Updates As Ransomware 33
Russian Cyber Attacks Are Struggling To Impact Ukraine's Networks 75
Hundreds of GoDaddy-Hosted Sites Backdoored In a Single Day 19
Google Discovers Threat Actor Working as an 'Initial Access Broker' for Conti Ransomware Hackers 20
Russia Will Run Out of Data Storage In Two Months 138
Nasty Linux Netfilter Firewall Security Hole Found 53
Google's Domain Name Registrar is Out of Beta After Seven Years 36
DigitalOcean Acquires CSS-Tricks 7
Germany Warns Kaspersky Software Risks Being Exploited by Russia 44
New CaddyWiper Data Wiping Malware Hits Ukrainian Networks 13
Researcher Uses 379-Year-Old Algorithm To Crack Crypto Keys Found In the Wild 17
Microsoft is Testing Ads in the Windows 11 File Explorer 164
Ukraine Ethical Hackers Bewildered as HackerOne Bug Bounty Platform Said To Halt Their Payouts 28
Intel Finds Bug In AMD's Spectre Mitigation, AMD Issues Fix 44
Critical US Companies Will Soon Be Required to Report All Breaches and Ransomware to the DHS 16
Ubisoft Won't Say Why It Reset Employee Passwords After 'Cyber Incident' 6
Big Web Security Firms Ditch Russia, Leaving Internet Users Open To More Kremlin Snooping 16
WhatsApp's New Browser Extension is Aimed at Making Web Chats More Secure 24
Russia Creates Its Own TLS Certificate Authority To Bypass Sanctions 59
Microsoft is Finally Bringing Tabs To File Explorer on Windows 11 65
YouTuber Leaves OLED Switch on for 3,600 Hours To Test Image Burn-in 54
Stolen Nvidia Certificates Used To Hide Malware in Driver Downloads 32
Cybersecurity Firm Says Chinese Hackers Breached Six US State Agencies 19
Apple Files Lawsuit Against NSO Group, Saying US Citizens Were Targets 19
Linux Has Been Bitten By Its Most High-Severity Vulnerability in Years 110
Millions of Palm-Sized, Flying Spiders Could Invade the East Coast 53
Hackers Targeted US LNG Producers in Run-Up To Ukraine War 9
Attackers Can Force Amazon Echos To Hack Themselves With Self-Issued Commands 32
Fraud Is Flourishing on Zelle. The Banks Say It's Not Their Problem. 63
Gig App Gathering Data for US Military, Others Prompts Safety Concerns 8
Samsung Confirms Galaxy Source Code Breach 17
Two Python Core Developers Remain in Ukraine 72
Tech Workers at New York Times Vote to Certify Union 181
New NSA Report: This is How You Should Be Securing Your Network 62
Linux Foundation's 'Census II' of Open Source Libraries Urges Support, Security, and Standardization 9
Cybercriminals Who Breached Nvidia Issue One of the Most Unusual Demands Ever 60
Ukraine Says 400,000 Volunteers Aid Hacking Against Russia 37
How a Simple Security Bug Became a University Campus 'Master Key' 73
Malware Campaign Impersonates VC Firm Looking To Buy Sites 13
Backblaze Has Released Their First Drive Stats Report For SSDs 32
Ukraine's 'IT Army' Targets Belarus Railway Network, Russian GPS 61
Google Mandates Workers Back To Silicon Valley, Other Offices From April 4 217
Ukraine Might Have Leaked Data On 120,000 Russian Soldiers 184
Hackers Demand NVIDIA Open Source Their Drivers Or They Leak More Data 75
The Oddly Addictive Quality of Google Alerts 7
The Dire Predictions About a Russian Cyber Onslaught Haven't Come True in Ukraine. At Least Not Yet. 66
Russian Cybersecurity Giant Kaspersky Tries To Maintain Neutrality During Ukraine War 161
Web Hosting Provider Namecheap To Ban Russia-Based Users, Citing Ukraine 136
Nvidia Says Employee, Company Information Leaked Online After Cyber Attack 9
Nvidia Allegedly Hacks Hackers Who Stole Company's Data 57
New Chinese Hacking Tool Found, Spurring US Warning To Allies 14
Ukraine Says Its 'IT Army' Has Taken Down Key Russian Sites 60
Microsoft Detected 'Destructive Cyberattacks' Against Ukraine Hours Before Russian Invasion 26
Toyota Suspends Domestic Factory Operations After Suspected Cyber Attack 27
Conti Ransomware Gang Chats Leaked by Pro-Ukraine Member 27
Ukraine Official Urges 'IT Army' of World's Digital Talent To Attack Russian Energy and Financial Firms 149
How a US Tech Firm Struggled to Get Its Employees Out of Kyiv 167
NATO Secretary-General Warns Cyberattacks Could Trigger Article 5 73
NVIDIA Hit By Major Cyberattack That May Have 'Completely Compromised' Parts of Its Business 48
Ukraine Says Belarusian Hackers Are Targeting Its Defense Forces 29
Ukraine Calls on Hacker Underground To Defend Against Russia 44
Samsung Shattered Encryption On 100 Million Phones 20
US Firms Brace for Potential Cyberattacks as Russia Threatens Critics 41
Utility Promising To Restore Mining Performance on Nvidia GPUs Actually Malware 23
Chinese Cybersecurity Company Doxes Apparent NSA Hacking Operation 18
Cyberattack Hits Ukrainian Banks and Government Websites 19
Google is Retiring Chrome's Data-saving Lite Mode Next Month, Saying It's No Longer Necessary 26
Behind the Stalkerware Network Spilling the Private Phone Data of Thousands 17
Missouri Governor's Office Responsible For Teacher Data Leak 30
OnePlus 10 Pro Snaps in Half in Durability Test 111
UK Ready To Launch Retaliatory Cyber-attacks on Russia, Defence Secretary Says 144
Phishing Attack Tricks 32 OpenSea Users Out of 254 NFTs 35
Linux Developers Patch Bugs Faster Than Microsoft, Apple, and Google, Study Shows 43
San Francisco's Mayor is Urging Employers to Return Workers to Downtown Offices 288
In 10 Years, Will 'Remote Work' Simply Be 'Work'? 74
Google Workers Protest Plans to Reduce Compensation in Three Cities in North Carolina, Texas, and Iowa 65
VMware Horizon Servers Are Under Active Exploit By Iranian State Hackers 17
'Zero-Click' Hacks Are Growing in Popularity. There's Practically No Way To Stop Them 43
How a Saudi Woman's iPhone Revealed Hacking Around the World 33
FBI Sounds Alarm as QR Code Usage Soars 71
US Agencies Say Russian Hackers Compromised Defense Contractors 38
Canada's Major Banks Go Offline in Mysterious Hours-long Outage 310

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