IT Stories for 2023

The Wealthiest Californians are Leaving the State, Hurting the Economy, Statistics Confirm 221
Amnesty International Confirms Apple's Warning to Journalists About Spyware-Infected iPhones 75
Is 'Work From Home' Here to Stay After 2023? 163
Microsoft Disables MSIX Protocol Handler Abused in Malware Attacks 11
LG is Bringing a 4K Projector With a Weird Handle To CES 2024 55
Boeing Urges Airlines To Inspect 787 Max Planes For Possible Loose Bolts 38
Fake Plane Parts Scandal Shows Peril of Antiquated Paper System 39
Cyberattack Targets Albanian Parliament's Data System, Halting Its Work 2
Google Agrees To Settle Chrome Incognito Mode Class Action Lawsuit 22
4-Year Campaign Backdoored iPhones Using Possibly the Most Advanced Exploit Ever 57
CBS, Paramount Owner National Amusements Says It Was Hacked 62
Windows 11 Will Let You Reinstall Your OS Through Windows Update Without Wiping Your Files 111
Mint Mobile Discloses New Data Breach Exposing Customer Data 14
US Water Utilities Hacked After Default Passwords Set to '1111', Cybersecurity Officials Say 84
The Race to Shield Secrets from Quantum Computers 67
Chrome's Password Safety Tool Will Now Automatically Run in the Background 39
Women In IT Are On a 283-Year March To Parity, BCS Warns 197
arXiv Now Offers Papers in HTML Format 8
Beeper Says It's Done Trying To Bring iMessage To Android 61
Samsung TV Plus Is Down Worldwide On Select Devices 29
UK Officials Caught Napping Ahead of 2G and 3G Doomsday 61
Attack Discovered Against SSH 66
Microsoft Releases Downloadable Tool To Remove Unwanted HP Printer Software 35
Comcast Discloses Data Breach of Close To 36 Million Xfinity Customers [UPDATE] 40
Insomniac Hacker Releases More Than 1.3 Million Stolen Files, Including Unannounced Games Info 18
Authorities Claim Seizure of Notorious ALPHV Ransomware Gang's Dark Web Leak Site 9
Mr. Cooper Hackers Stole Personal Data on 14 Million Customers 74
Delta Dental of California Data Breach Exposed Info of 7 Million People 20
Marketing Company Claims That It Actually Is Listening To Phone and Smart Speakers To Target Ads 147
China Issues Draft Contingency Plan for Data Security Incidents 5
Intelligence Researchers To Study Computer Code for Clues To Hackers' Identities 4
Proton Mail Finally Gets a Desktop App For Encrypted Email and Calendar 21
Supply Chain Attack Targeting Ledger Crypto Wallet Leaves Users Hacked 17
Google Will Turn Off Third-Party Tracking for Some Chrome Users Soon 26
Apple's New iPhone Security Setting Keeps Thieves Out of Your Digital Accounts 19
Lazarus Cyber Group Deploys DLang Malware Strains 13
US Healthcare Giant Norton Says Hackers Stole Millions of Patients' Data During Ransomware Attack 27
That Call Center Tech Scammer Could Be a Human Trafficking Victim 57
With 23% of US Office Space Vacant, Some Landlords Are Defaulting on Mortgages 230
Is There a Mass Exodus of Former Silicon Valley Tech Companies From Austin, Texas? 228
Apple Blocks 'Beeper Mini', Citing Security Concerns. But Beeper Keeps Trying 90
Reports of Active Directory Vulnerability Allowing DNS Record Spoofs to Steal Secrets 14
23andMe Moves To Thwart Class-Action Lawsuits by Quietly Updating Terms 45
Apple Report Finds Steep Increase in Data Breaches, Ransomware 12
Meta Defies FBI Opposition To Encryption, Brings E2EE To Facebook, Messenger 39
Android Vulnerability Exposes Credentials From Mobile Password Managers 22
Nearly Every Windows and Linux Device Vulnerable To New LogoFAIL Firmware Attack 69
Legal Manga App User Banned After Taking 'Fraudulent Screenshots' 68
AI Models May Enable a New Era of Mass Spying, Says Bruce Schneier 37
Windows 10 Gets Three More Years of Security Updates, If You Can Afford Them 80
Facebook Kills PGP-Encrypted Emails 37
Beeper Mini is an iMessage-for-Android App That Doesn't Require Any Apple Device at All 122
After Unexplained Bans, PlayStation Users Report Their Accounts Have Been Restored 34
Cicadas Are So Loud, Fiber Optic Cables Can 'Hear' Them 22
A Windows Update Bug Is Renaming Everyone's Printers To HP M101-M106 55
Exposed Hugging Face API Tokens Offered Full Access To Meta's Llama 2 11
23andMe Confirms Hackers Stole Ancestry Data on 6.9 Million Users 40
Gmail's AI-Powered Spam Detection Is Its Biggest Security Upgrade in Years 45
Asking ChatGPT To Repeat Words 'Forever' Is Now a Terms of Service Violation 151
Sellafield Nuclear Site Hacked By Groups Linked To Russia and China 26
Is There Really a Shortage of Information Security Workers? 87
OpenZFS Fixes Data Corruption Issue 39
Rust Foundation Plans Training/Certification Program. Security Initiative Funded Through 2024 4
Vanishing Graduate Tech Jobs Worsen Modi's Headache Before Elections 50
ownCloud Vulnerability With Maximum 10 Severity Score Comes Under 'Mass' Exploitation 20
HP Printer Software Turns Up Uninvited on Windows Systems 51
Web Browser Suspended Because It Can Browse the Web is Back on Google Play 35
Google Warns China Is Ramping Up Cyberattacks Against Taiwan 15
Dollar Tree Hit By Third-Party Data Breach Impacting 2 Million People 16
Okta Says Hackers Stole Data For All Customer Support Users 14
Hackers Spent 2+ Years Looting Secrets of Chipmaker NXP Before Being Detected 19
Microsoft's Ugly Sweater For 2023 is Windows XP's Iconic Default Wallpaper 36
India's CERT Given Exemption From Right To Information Requests 5
Researchers Figure Out How To Bypass Fingerprint Readers In Most Windows PCs 25
Google Drive Misplaces Months' Worth of Customer Files 82
Fewer People Moving in California Are Moving Into the State Than Anywhere Else 265
Why Do So Many Sites Have Bad Password Policies? 242
How Python's New Security Developer Hopes To Help All Software Supply Chains 23
FFmpeg 6.1 Drops a Heaviside Dose of Codec Magic 14
China Supplies Data To WHO About Clusters of Respiratory Illness 65
Ubisoft Blames 'Technical Error' For Showing Pop-up Ads in Assassin's Creed 38
Some Pixel 8 Pro Displays Have Bumps Under the Glass 31
Personal Data Stolen in British Library Cyber-Attack Appears for Sale Online 5
Thousands of Routers and Cameras Vulnerable To New 0-Day Attacks By Hostile Botnet 18
Australia Beefs Up Cyber Defences After Major Breaches 6
Microsoft's Windows Hello Fingerprint Authentication Has Been Bypassed 53
USB Worm Unleashed By Russian State Hackers Spreads Worldwide 34
Third-Party Data Breach Affecting Canadian Government Could Involve Data From 1999 4
North Koreans Use Fake Names, Scripts To Land Remote IT Work For Cash 60
Sunbird is Shutting Down Its iMessage App for Android 12
YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users 212
Nothing's iMessage App Was a Security Catastrophe, Taken Down In 24 Hours 47
Commercial Flights Are Experiencing 'Unthinkable' GPS Attacks 183
Microsoft Celebrates 20th Anniversary of 'Patch Tuesday' 17
Online Atrocity Database Exposed Thousands of Vulnerable People In Congo 6
Ransomware Group Reports Victim It Breached To SEC Regulators 32
Apple Says RCS Messages Will Have Green Bubbles 182
Prison Phone Company Leaked 600,000 Users' Data and Didn't Notify Them 45
Users Can't Speak To Viral AI Girlfriend CarynAI Because CEO Is in Jail 52
Developers Can't Seem To Stop Exposing Credentials in Publicly Accessible Code 59
Signal Reveals Its Operation Costs, Estimates $50 Million a Year In 2024 29
Apple To Add RCS Support To iPhone Next Year 160
Samsung Says Hackers Accessed Customer Data During Year-Long Breach 7
Children's Tablet Has Malware and Exposes Kids' Data, Researcher Finds 37
Proton Mail CEO Calls New Address Verification Feature 'Blockchain in a Very Pure Form' 28
Microsoft and Nvidia Are Making It Easier To Run AI Models on Windows 14
Asus Apologizes For Misprinted Evangelion Motherboard 116
Intel Fixes High-Severity CPU Bug That Causes 'Very Strange Behavior' 22
A Lost Bitcoin Wallet Passcode Helped Uncover a Major Security Flaw 22
The $2,000 Phones That Let Anyone Make Robocalls 24
FBI Struggled To Disrupt Dangerous Casino Hacking Gang, Cyber Responders Say 30
Google Sues Men Who Weaponized DMCA Notices To Crush Competition 50
Person Linked To Scam Asks FBI for His Seized Cryptocurrency Back 46
Healthcare Giant McLaren Reveals Data On 2.2 Million Patients Stolen During Ransomware Attack 12
New York Plans Cyber Rules for Hospitals 24
Optus Says Massive Australia Outage Was After Software Upgrade 33
In a First, Cryptographic Keys Protecting SSH Connections Stolen in New Attack 95
A SysAid Vulnerability Is Being Used To Deploy Clop Ransomware, Warns Microsoft 19
Highly Invasive Backdoors Hidden in Python Obfuscation Packages, Downloaded by 2,348 Developers 50
NY AG Issues $450K Penalty To US Radiology After Unpatched Bug Led To Ransomware 25
How a Tiny Pacific Island Became the Global Capital of Cybercrime 18
How SIM Swappers Straight-Up Rob T-Mobile Stores 70
Microsoft Briefly Restricted Employee Access To OpenAI's ChatGPT, Citing Security Concerns 5
Cyber Attack Forces World's Biggest Bank to Trade via USB Stick 14
Signal Messaging App Now Testing Usernames 52
Maine Government Says Data Breach Affects 1.3 Million Residents 40
Mortgage Giant Mr. Cooper Shuts Down Systems Following Cyberattack 30
AMD Begins Polaris and Vega GPU Retirement Process, Reduces Ongoing Driver Support 19
Microsoft Won't Let You Close OneDrive on Windows Until You Explain Yourself 245
Google-led App Defense Alliance Joins Linux Foundation 17
Google Search and Chrome Are Getting New Tools To Help Users Find Discounts 17
Tech Groups Fear New Powers Will Allow UK To Block Encryption 40
Apple Delays Work on Next Year's iPhone, Mac Software To Fix Bugs 74
'Encryption King' Arrested In Turkey 31
Scientist Claims Quantum RSA-2048 Encryption Cracking Breakthrough 129
US Military Members' Personal Data Being Sold By Online Brokers, Report Finds 32
Huawei and Tencent Spearhead China's Hold on Cybersecurity Patents 28
Microsoft Disputes Severity of Four Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Found in Exchange by Trend Micro 26
Okta Breach: 134 Customers Exposed in October Support System Hack 13
Fusus' AI-Powered Cameras Are Spreading Across the United States 33
US House Panel Seeks Ban On Federal Purchases of China Drones 33
Microsoft Warns It May 'Throttle' Its Generative AI Services for 'Excessive' Users 15
Chrome Not Proceeding With Web Integrity API Deemed By Many To Be DRM 24
Brave Responds To Bing and ChatGPT With a New 'Anonymous and Secure' AI Chatbot 11
Cloudflare Dashboard and APIs Down After Data Center Power Outage 22
Microsoft Overhauling Its Software Security After Major Azure Cloud Attacks 40
Millions of Fruit Flies Will Be Dropped On Los Angeles 84
Asahi Linux Goes From Apple Silicon Port Project To macOS Bug Hunters 33
Mass Lawsuit Against Apple Over iPhone Batteries Can Go Ahead, London Tribunal Rules 20
Microsoft Calls Time on Windows Insider MVP Program 12
Two Russian Nationals Charged For Hacking Taxi System At JFK Airport 48
[Dot]US Harbors Prolific Malicious Link Shortening Service 17
Apple M3 Pro Chip Has 25% Less Memory Bandwidth Than M1/M2 Pro 78
Alliance of 40 Countries To Vow Not To Pay Ransom To Cybercriminals, US Says 52
Apple Warns Indian Opposition Leaders of State-Sponsored iPhone Attacks 29
Google Promises a Rescue Patch For Android 14's 'Ransomware' Bug 33
Hackers Accessed 632,000 Email Addresses at US Justice, Defense Departments 9
79% of Developers are At Least Considering a New Job, Survey Finds 36
How the US is Preparing For a Post-Quantum World 45
Powerful Malware Disguised as Crypto Miner Infects 1M+ Windows, Linux PCs 19
Oxide Launches the World's First 'Commercial' Cloud Computer 35
Android 14 Storage Bug Has Users Locked Out of Their Devices 18
Intel CEO Dismisses 'Pretty Insignificant' Arm PC Challenge 51
Windows 11 Now Lets You Write Anywhere You Can Type 51
iFixit Now Sells Microsoft Surface Parts For Repair 4
Google Adds Generative AI Threats To Its Bug Bounty Program 3
Hyundai To Hold Software-Upgrade Clinics Across the US For Vehicles Targeted By Thieves 59
Western Digital and Kioxia Scrap Memory Chip Merger Talks 0
Ukrainian Hackers and Intel Officers Partner Up In Apparent Hack of a Top Russian Bank 41
Hackers Can Force iOS and macOS Browsers To Divulge Passwords 29
Intel's New 14th Gen CPUs Get a Boost To Gaming Performance With APO Feature 34
US Conservatives Are Trying To Kill Government's Top Cyber Security Agency 267
Okta Cybersecurity Breach Wipes Out More Than $2 Billion In Market Cap 40
Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite Chips Promise Major PC Performance 9
Google Falsely Flags Samsung Apps as 'Harmful,' Tells Users To Remove Them 45
Microsoft Now Wants You To Take a Poll Before Installing Google Chrome 149
They Cracked the Code To a Locked USB Drive Worth $235 Million in Bitcoin. Then It Got Weird. 61
1Password Discloses Security Incident Linked To Okta Breach 27
Google Chrome's New 'IP Protection' Will Hide Users' IP Addresses 131
Matter 1.2 is a Big Move For the Smart Home Standard 64
Microsoft Fixes the Excel Feature That Was Wrecking Scientific Data 83
20 Carriers Face Call-Blocking in the US for Submitting Fake 'Robocall Mitigation Plans' 67
Dropbox Returns Over 25% of Its San Francisco HQ to Its Landlord 66
What's Behind the Cybersecurity Jobs Shortage? 137
Thousands of Remote IT Workers Sent Wages To North Korea To Help Fund Weapons Program, Says FBI 44
OpenBSD 7.4 Released 8
Windows 11 Pro's On-By-Default Encryption Slows SSDs Up To 45% 120
Hackers Stole Access Tokens From Okta's Support Unit 26
In-memory Database Redis Wants To Dabble in Disk 5
The Latest High-Severity Citrix Vulnerability Under Attack Isn't Easy To Fix 3
Indian Authorities Raid Fake Tech Support Rings After Tipoff From Amazon and Microsoft 25
Hackers Compromise Accounts of Kodex, Company That Vets Police Data Requests For Tech Giants 2
There's a New Way To Flip Bits in DRAM, and It Works Against the Latest Defenses 44
Discord is Going To Give Out Warnings Instead of Permanent Bans 25
Google-Hosted Malvertising Leads To Fake Keepass Site That Looks Genuine 37
Android Will Now Scan Sideloaded Apps For Malware At Install Time 41
Hacker Leaks Millions More 23andMe User Records On Cybercrime Forum 20
Google is Tweaking Chrome's Search Bar To Make It Easier To Navigate the Web 25
Russia and China-backed Hackers Are Exploiting WinRAR Zero-Day Bug, Google Says 40
Why Switzerland's E-Voting System Is a Bad Idea 65
Tech CEO Sentenced To 5 Years in IP Address Scheme 58
Amazon Quietly Rolls Out Support for Passkeys, With a Catch 52
US Plans To Push Other Countries Not to Pay Hacker Ransoms 36
AMD Pulls Graphics Driver After 'Anti-Lag+' Triggers Counter-Strike 2 Bans 93
Dropbox CEO Defends 90% Remote-Work Model, Says 'Future of Work' is Here 103
T2 Linux Discovers (Now Patched) AMD Zen 4 Invalid Opcode Speculation Bug 13
To 'Evolve' Windows Authentication, Microsoft Wants to Eventually Disable NTLM in Windows 11 68
Mathematician Warns US Spies May Be Weakening Next-Gen Encryption 78
Across US, Chinese Bitcoin Mines Draw National Security Scrutiny 23
Sandvine Scraps Plan To Market Tool in US That Tracks Encrypted Messages 7
India Won't Impose Restrictions on Laptop Imports 4
Equifax Scores $13.6 Million Slap on Wrist Over 2017 Mega Breach 25
Cisco Can't Stop Using Hard-Coded Passwords 30
Europe Mulls Open Sourcing TETRA Emergency Services' Encryption Algorithms 18
Cloud Gaming Firm Shadow Says Hackers Stole Customers' Personal Data 7
Microsoft Calls Off OneDrive Photo-pocalypse 12
State-backed Hackers Are Exploiting New 'Critical' Atlassian Zero-Day Bug 18
Qualcomm Will Try To Have Its Apple Silicon Moment in PCs With 'Snapdragon X' 32
Vintage Mac Community Begs Manufacturers for New Supply of Rare Dongle as Resellers Charge $250 77
HTTP/2 Zero-Day Exploited To Launch Largest DDoS Attacks In History 25
Google Makes Passkeys the Default Sign-in Method For All Users 230
Hacktivism Erupts In Response To Hamas-Israel War 340
Not Even the Ghost of Obsolescence Can Coerce Users Onto Windows 11 287
Why Is California's Population Falling? Housing Costs 286
Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian, and Gentoo Release Patches for 'Looney Tunables' Linux Vulnerability 22
'I'm a Luddite - and Why You Should Be One Too' 211
Cryptographer Announces $12K Bounty to Find the Lost Seeds to 5 NIST Elliptic Curves 43
For 'Cybersecurity Awareness Month' America's Cybersecurity Agency Shares Four Online Safety Tips 34
Android Devices With Backdoored Firmware Found In US Schools 36
23andMe Scraping Incident Leaked Data On 1.3 Million Users 25
All Slack Employees Forced To Spend a Week Getting Salesforce Certifications 57
NSA Shares Top Ten Cybersecurity Misconfigurations 31
Microsoft Launches New Web App Store for Windows 21
Google Open-Sourced a Hat Shaped Like a Giant Keycap - and It Actually Types 20
MGM Says Computer Hack Will Cost It $100 Million In Lost Profit 59
Microsoft Won't Say If Its Products Were Exploited By Spyware Zero-Days 13
Linux Tries To Dump Windows' Notoriously Insecure RNDIS Protocol 35
Russia Plans To Block VPN In March 2024 150
Clorox Security Breach Linked to Group Behind Casino Hacks 23
Apple Releases iPhone Software Update To Fix Overheating Issue 36
The Google Pixel 8 is Official With 7 Years of Updates 77
FBI Most-Wanted Russian Hacker Reveals Why He Burned His Passport 124
New Group Attacking iPhone Encryption Backed By US Political Dark-Money Network 52
Google Mandates Unsubscribe Button in Emails For Those Sending Over 5,000 Daily Messages 91
Microsoft Kills Its Classic Azure DaaS, Because It Isn't Really Azure 14
Vulnerable Arm GPU Drivers Under Active Exploitation, Patches May Not Be Available 30
Supreme Court Rejects IT Worker Challenge of OPT Program 43
Dead Grandma Locket Request Tricks Bing Chat's AI Into Solving Security Puzzle 40
IronNet, Founded by Former NSA Director, Shuts Down 6
Millions of Digital Nomads are Traveling the World -- and Sometimes Working at Night 68

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