IT Stories for 2024

Millions of IPs Remain Infected By USB Worm Years After Its Creators Left It For Dead 24
Captchas Are Getting Harder 70
Windows 11 Will Display Watermark If Your PC Does Not Support AI Requirements 90
Open Sourcing DOS 4 79
Almost Every Chinese Keyboard App Has a Security Flaw That Reveals What Users Type 77
'ArcaneDoor' Cyberspies Hacked Cisco Firewalls To Access Government Networks 22
Lenovo First To Implement LPCAMM2 in Laptop 20
Framework Won't Be Just a Laptop Company Anymore 29
Qualcomm Is Cheating On Their Snapdragon X Elite/Pro Benchmarks 44
Change Healthcare Finally Admits It Paid Ransomware Hackers 28
Ex-Amazon Exec Claims She Was Asked To Ignore Copyright Law in Race To AI 29
AI Is Poisoning Reddit To Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO' 66
Europol Becomes Latest Law Enforcement Group To Plead With Big Tech To Ditch E2EE 147
North Koreans Secretly Animated Amazon and Max Shows, Researchers Say 32
GPT-4 Can Exploit Real Vulnerabilities By Reading Security Advisories 74
Red Hat Upgrades Its Pipeline-Securing (and Verification-Automating) Tools 11
Microsoft Does Not Want You To Use iPerf3 To Measure Network Performance on Windows 60
Windows 10 Will Start Pushing Users To Use Microsoft Accounts 162
Frontier Communications Shuts Down Systems After Cyberattack 6
Hackers Are Threatening To Publish a Huge Stolen Sanctions and Financial Crimes Watchlist 30
Hackers Voice Cloned the CEO of LastPass For Attack 15
A Spy Site Is Scraping Discord and Selling Users' Messages 49
Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report For 2024 Q1 10
A Crypto Wallet Maker's Warning About an iMessage Bug Sounds Like a False Alarm 3
Change Healthcare's Ransomware Attack Costs Edge Toward $1 Billion So Far 17
T-Mobile Employees Across The Country Receive Cash Offers To Illegally Swap SIMs: Report 72
Roku Makes 2FA Mandatory For All After Nearly 600K Accounts Pwned 26
Crickets From Chirp Systems in Smart Lock Key Leak 14
Ubisoft Revokes Access To Purchased Game, Sparking Digital Ownership Debate 136
Security Engineer Jailed For 3 Years For $12M Crypto Hacks 8
Data Collected by the US Justice Department Exposed in Consultant's Breach 9
New Spectre V2 Attack Impacts Linux Systems On Intel CPUs 21
US Government Says Recent Microsoft Breach Exposed Federal Agencies to Hacking 15
'Defeated' CEO's Finally Concede Hybrid Working Is Here to Stay 88
Discord is Nuking Nintendo Switch Emulator Devs and Their Entire Servers 56
We Never Agreed To Only Buy HP Ink, Say Printer Owners 116
Why CISA Is Warning CISOs About a Breach At Sisense 14
Hackable Intel and Lenovo Hardware That Went Undetected For 5 Years Won't Ever Be Fixed 62
Apple Alerts Users in 92 Nations To Mercenary Spyware Attacks 16
Microsoft Employees Exposed Internal Passwords In Security Lapse 24
Kobo Adds Color To Its E-reader Lineup For the First Time 47
Amazon To Stop Paying Developers To Create Apps For Alexa 28
Proton Acquires Standard Notes 10
The World Doesn't Need More Journal Apps 37
Internet Traffic Dipped as Viewers Took in the Eclipse 18
San Francisco's Light Rail To Upgrade From Floppy Disks 113
Magnets Are Switching Up the Keyboard Game 82
NIST Blames 'Growing Backlog of Vulnerabilities' Requiring Analysis on Lack of Support 22
Rust, Python, Apache Foundations and Others Announce Big Collaboration on Cybersecurity Process Specifications 42
Commercial Bank of Ethiopia Names and Shames Customers Over Bank Glitch Money 26
UK Govt Office Admits Ability To Negotiate Billions in Cloud Spending Curbed By Vendor Lock-in 32
Hospital Network Admin Used Fake Identity For 35 Years 88
PCIe 7.0 On Track For a 2025 Release 29
Microsoft Edge Will Let You Control How Much RAM It Uses Soon 62
Users Say Google's VPN App Breaks the Windows DNS Settings 37
Scathing Federal Report Rips Microsoft For Shoddy Security 81
Missouri County Declares State of Emergency Amid Suspected Ransomware Attack 41
New XZ Backdoor Scanner Detects Implants In Any Linux Binary 33
The FTC is Trying To Help Victims of Impersonation Scams Get Their Money Back 8
ChatGPT No Longer Requires an Account 44
Thorium: The Fastest Open Source Chromium-based Browser? 55
AT&T Says Data From 73 Million Customers Has Leaked Onto the Dark Web 21
Do Age Verification Laws Drag Us Back to the Dark Ages of the Internet? 159
AI Hallucinated a Dependency. So a Cybersecurity Researcher Built It as Proof-of-Concept Malware 44
'Security Engineering' Author Ross Anderson, Cambridge Professor, Dies at Age 67 7
Red Hat Issues Urgent Alert For Fedora Linux Users Due To Malicious Code 83
How Apple Plans To Update New iPhones Without Opening Them 97
Dashlane To Discontinue Its Authenticator App 14
Fisker Lost Track of Millions of Dollars in Customer Payments For Months 36
Recent 'MFA Bombing' Attacks Targeting Apple Users 15
US Offers $10 Million Bounty For Info on 'Blackcat' Hackers Who Hit UnitedHealth 15
SWIFT Planning Launch of New Central Bank Digital Currency Platform in 12-24 Months 59
Microsoft's New Era of AI PCs Will Need a Copilot Key, Says Intel 127
Software Industry Calls for More UK Government Support 47
A Native Version of Chrome Arrives for Arm-based Windows PC 20
Cloudflare Says It's Automated Empathy To Avoid Fixing Flaky Hardware Too Often 19
Bitcoin 'Halving' Spurs Exodus of Old US Mining Computers Abroad 48
Atlas VPN To Shut Down, Transfers Paid Subscribers To NordVPN 39
Microsoft Dev's 30-Year-Old Temporary Code Still Lingers in Windows 11 68
Chinese Spies Sell Access into Top US, UK Networks 16
Video Game Voice Actors May Strike Over AI 82
New 'Loop DoS' Attack May Impact Up to 300,000 Online Systems 10
Apple Criticized For Changing the macOS version of cURL 75
Microsoft Confirms Windows Server Security Update Caused Memory Leak, 'Unscheduled' Reboots 35
New 'GoFetch' Apple CPU Attack Exposes Crypto Keys 40
Switch Emulator Suyu Hit By GitLab DMCA, Project Lives on Through Self-hosting 21
US Cyber Investors Pledge Spyware is Off Limits - With a Catch 7
UnitedHealth Group Paid More Than $2 Billion To Providers Following Cyberattack 26
Hackers Found a Way To Open Any of 3 Million Hotel Keycard Locks In Seconds 33
Unpatchable Vulnerability in Apple Chip Leaks Secret Encryption Keys 85
Formula 1 Chief Appalled To Find Team Using Excel To Manage 20,000 Car Parts 187
macOS Sonoma 14.4 Bug 'Destroys Saved Versions In iCloud Drive' 32
Apex Legends Hacker Said He Hacked Tournament Games 'For Fun' 34
'Disabling Cyberattacks' Are Hitting Critical US Water Systems, White House Warns 77
AT&T Says Leaked Data of 70 Million People Is Not From Its Systems 25
Mozilla Firefox 124 Is Now Available for Download 27
Commercial Bank of Ethiopia Glitch Lets Customers Withdraw Millions 36
C++ Creator Rebuts White House Warning 258
Investment Advisors Pay the Price For Selling What Looked a Lot Like AI Fairy Tales 15
Apex Legends Streamers Warned To 'Perform a Clean OS Reinstall as Soon as Possible' After Hacks During NA Finals Match 59
Fujitsu Says It Was Hacked, Warns of Data Breach 10
Microsoft Office 2024 Will Be Available Without Subscription 39
32-Hour Workweek for America Proposed by Senator Bernie Sanders 390
Dell Workers Can Stay Remote - But They're Not Going to Get Promoted 96
McDonald's IT Systems Outage Shuts Some Restaurants Globally 32
Microsoft is Once Again Asking Chrome Users To Try Bing Through Unblockable Pop-ups 163
Massively Popular Safe Locks Have Secret Backdoor Codes 62
Record Breach of French Government Exposes Up To 43 Million People's Data 11
Google's Safe Browsing Protection in Chrome Goes Real-Time 49
Modern Workplace Tech Linked To Lower Employee Well-Being, Study Finds 39
Stanford University Failed To Detect Ransomware Intruders For 4 Months 22
Google Paid $10 Million In Bug Bounty Rewards Last Year 17
Speedometer 3.0: A Shared Browser Benchmark for Web Application Responsiveness 15
Over 15,000 Roku Accounts Sold To Buy Streaming Subscriptions, Devices 25
Midjourney Bans All Stability AI Employees Over Alleged Data Scraping 12
France Says Several Agencies Hit by 'Intense' Cyberattacks 17
Airbnb is Banning Indoor Security Cameras 103
Misconfigured Cloud Servers Targeted with Linux Malware for New Cryptojacking Campaign 16
Linux Variants of Bifrost Trojan Evade Detection via Typosquatting 19
US Cybersecurity Agency Forced to Take Two Systems Offline Last Month After Ivanti Compromise 4
Microsoft Sends OneDrive URL Upload Feature To the Cloud Graveyard 13
Microsoft Says Russian Hackers Stole Source Code After Spying On Its Executives 29
Researchers Jailbreak AI Chatbots With ASCII Art 34
VMware Sandbox Escape Bugs Are So Critical, Patches Are Released For End-of-Life Products 31
Fidelity Customers' Financial Info Feared Stolen In Suspected Ransomware Attack 22
Meta Abandons Hacking Victims, Draining Law Enforcement Resources, Officials Say 58
Microsoft Engineer Warns Company's AI Tool Creates Violent, Sexual Images, Ignores Copyrights 75
BlackCat Ransomware Group Implodes After Apparent $22M Payment By Change Healthcare 54
Signal's New Usernames Help Keep Cops Out of Your Data 39
Microsoft To End Its Android Apps on Windows 11 Subsystem in 2025 45
Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and Threads Are All Down 97
Hackers Exploited Windows 0-day for 6 Months After Microsoft Knew of It 46
Gartner Predicts Search Engine Volume Will Drop 25% by 2026, Due To AI Chatbots and Other Virtual Agents 93
Researchers Create AI Worms That Can Spread From One System to Another 46
Linux Foundation Launches Open Source Fraud Prevention Solutions, Supported By Gates Foundation 20
Did Remote Working Doom a San Francisco Macy's? 215
Watch the Moment 43 Unionized YouTube Contractors Were All Laid Off 178
Ransomware Attack Hampers Prescription Drug Sales at 90% of US Pharmacies 81
Yelp Says Remote-First Policy Boosted Job Apps By 43%, Led To a More Satisfied Workforce 16
A Leaky Database Spilled 2FA Codes For the World's Tech Giants 11
Stack Overflow To Charge LLM Developers For Access To Its Coding Content 32
Google is Blocking RCS on Rooted Android Devices 105
How the Pentagon Learned To Use Targeted Ads To Find Its Targets 55
Government Watchdog Hacked US Federal Agency To Stress-Test Its Cloud Security 21
Calendar Meeting Links Used To Spread Mac Malware 17
Cheap Doorbell Cameras Can Be Easily Hijacked, Says Consumer Reports 23
Google is Making Search Suggestions in Chrome More Helpful 25
Popular Video Doorbells Can Be Easily Hijacked, Researchers Find 36
HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought By AMD 114
GitHub Besieged By Millions of Malicious Repositories In Ongoing Attack 50
Hackers Backed By Russia and China Are Infecting SOHO Routers Like Yours, FBI Warns 36
Amazon Bricks Long-Standing Fire TV Apps With New Update 64
Nevada Sues To Deny Kids Access To Meta's Messenger Encryption 79
LockBit Ransomware Gang Resurfaces With New Site 24
Apple's Decision To Drop iPhone Web Apps Comes Under Scrutiny in the EU 94
Lenovo's Laptop Concept is Fully Transparent, But the Point Isn't Entirely Clear 25
Julia v1.10 Improves Performance, and Gnuplot Gets Pie Charts 14
The Companies Helping Governments Hack Citizens' Phones: a 'Thriving' Industry 8
How 'Smart Keys' Have Fueled a New Wave of Car Thefts 177
US Man Accused of Making $1.8 Million From Listening In On Wife's Remote Work Calls 107
Ransomware Associated With LockBit Still Spreading 2 Days After Server Takedown 4
UnitedHealth Says Change Healthcare Hacked by Nation State, as US Pharmacy Outages Drag On 15
US Health Tech Giant Change Healthcare Hit by Cyberattack 17
Leaked Hacking Files Show Chinese Spying On Citizens and Foreigners Alike 18
Firefly Software Snafu Sends Lockheed Satellite on Short-Lived Space Safari 25
US Offers Up To $15 Million For Information on LockBit Leaders 22
Apple Rolls Out iMessage Upgrade To Withstand Decryption By Quantum Computers 42
Fingerprints Can Be Recreated From the Sounds Made When Swiping On a Touchscreen 42
Microsoft Publisher Books Its Retirement Party for 2026 26
Apple Officially Warns Users To Stop Putting Wet iPhones in Rice 121
Signal Finally Rolls Out Usernames, So You Can Keep Your Phone Number Private 38
Adobe Acrobat Adds Generative AI To 'Easily Chat With Documents' 31
International Law Enforcement Disrupts LockBit Ransomware 13
Microsoft Fixes Edge Browser Bug That Was Stealing Chrome Tabs and Data 49
MIT Researchers Build Tiny Tamper-Proof ID Tag Utilizing Terahertz Waves 42
'Luddite' Tech-Skeptics See Bad AI Outcomes for Labor - and Humanity 202
Linux Becomes a CVE Numbering Authority (Like Curl and Python). Is This a Turning Point? 20
How Rust Improves the Security of Its Ecosystem 45
OpenZFS Native Encryption Use Has New(ish) Data Corruption Bug 16
Zeus, IcedID Malware Kingpin Faces 40 Years In Prison 39
New 'Gold Pickaxe' Android, iOS Malware Steals Your Face For Fraud 13
DOJ Quietly Removed Russian Malware From Routers in US Homes and Businesses 71
Google 'Talk To a Live Rep' Brings Pixel's Hold for Me To All Search Users 14
Indian Government Moves To Ban ProtonMail After Bomb Threat 25
US Military Notifies 20,000 of Data Breach After Cloud Email Leak 11
Backdoors That Let Cops Decrypt Messages Violate Human Rights, EU Court Says 30
DuckDuckGo's Browser Adds Encrypted, Privacy-Minded Syncing and Backup 12
Microsoft and OpenAI Say US Rivals Are Beginning To Use Generative AI in Offensive Cyber Operations 15
Wi-Fi Jamming To Knock Out Cameras Suspected In Nine Minnesota Burglaries 174
Backblaze's Geriatric Hard Drives Kicked the Bucket More in 2023 51
Infosys Subsidiary Named as Source of Bank of America Data Leak 21
FCC Requires Telcos To Disclose When Your Personal Info Is Stolen 13
The Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund's $92 Million Excel Error 49
Google Scholar is Manipulatable 16
Microsoft Working On Its Own DLSS-like Upscaler for Windows 11 42
'World's Biggest Casino' App Exposed Customers' Personal Data 10
The Unsettling Scourge of Obituary Spam 39
Cryptography Guru Martin Hellman Urges International Cooperation on AI, Security 18
New Australian Law Will Give Workers 'Right to Disconnect' 97
Why Companies Are Leaving the Cloud 176
David Kahn, Leading Historian of Code and Code Breaking, Dies At 93 5
Security Flaw In a Popular Smart Helmet Allowed Silent Location Tracking 3
Ring Video Doorbell Customers Angry At 43% Price Hike 42
Canada Moves To Ban the Flipper Zero Over Car Hacking Fears 63
Apple Is Lobbying Against Right To Repair Six Months After Supporting Right To Repair 27
The Viral Smart Toothbrush Botnet Story Is Not Real 52
Fake LastPass Password Manager Spotted on Apple's App Store 42
In Its Tantrum With Europe, Apple Broke Web Apps in iOS 17 Beta 66
Linux Foundation Forms Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance 14
Critical Vulnerability Affecting Most Linux Distros Allows For Bootkits 51
Disney Plus' Restrictions on Password Sharing Are Now Rolling Out To US Subscribers 54
3 Million Malware-Infected Smart Toothbrushes Used In Swiss DDoS Attacks [UPDATE] 56
US To Restrict Visas For Those Who Misuse Commercial Spyware 23
Inside the Underground Site Where 'Neural Networks' Churn Out Fake IDs 28
How a Microsoft Update Broke VS Code Editor on Ubuntu 149
Microsoft Deploys 'Harmful Design' Tricks To Push Edge, Say Mozilla Researchers 64
Google Search's Cache Links Are Officially Being Retired 32
Panasonic Sells Off Its VR Subsidiary 19
Making a PDF That's Larger Than Germany 63
Pig-Butchering Scam Kits Are for Sale in Underground Markets 27
Cloudflare Hacked By Suspected State-Sponsored Threat Actor 19
Okta To Lay Off 7% of Staff Because 'Reality is That Costs Are Still Too High' 35
Apple Declares Last MacBook Pro With an Optical Drive Obsolete 69
FBI Director Warns Chinese Hackers Aim To 'Wreak Havoc' On US Critical Infrastructure 98
Ivanti Patches Two Zero-Days Under Attack, But Finds Another 1
Binance Code and Internal Passwords Exposed on GitHub for Months 12
Add Bacteria To the List of Things That Can Run Doom 41
'Microsoft Stole My Chrome Tabs, and It Wants Yours, Too' 143
ChatGPT is Leaking Passwords From Private Conversations of Its Users - Report 62
US Disabled Chinese Hacking Network Targeting Critical Infrastructure 24
German Railway Company Is Looking For MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 Admin 199
Mistakenly Published Password Exposes Mercedes-Benz Source Code 29
Office Mandates Don't Help Companies Make More Money, Study Finds 70
18-Year-Old Cleared After Encrypted Snapchat Joke Led To F-18s and Arrest 133
Tech Stocks Hit New Records as Tech Layoffs Rise Amid AI Hiring Sprees 61
HP, Many More Companies May Have Been Breached By Russian Intelligence Group 27
EFF Adds Street Surveillance Hub So Americans Can Check Who's Checking On Them 56
IT Consultant Fined For Daring To Expose Shoddy Security 102
HP CEO Evokes James Bond-Style Hack Via Ink Cartridges 166
How a Data Breach of 1M Cancer Center Patients Led to Extorting Emails 37
Most CEOs Won't Prioritize Return-to-Office Policies, Survey Finds 101
WSJ: Broadcom's VMware Overhaul 'Draws Attention of CIOs' 74
Microsoft Executive Emails Hacked By Russian Intelligence Group, Company Says 25
Google Says Russian Espionage Crew Behind New Malware Campaign 10
Microsoft's Bing Market Share Barely Budged With ChatGPT Add-On 48
A Flaw In Millions of Apple, AMD, and Qualcomm GPUs Could Expose AI Data 22
Have I Been Pwned Adds 71 Million Emails From Naz.API Stolen Account List 17
Mobile Device Ambient Light Sensors Can Be Used To Spy On Users 11
Fujitsu is Sorry That Its Software Helped Send Innocent People To Prison 143
JPMorgan Suffers 45 Billion Cyber Attacks a Day 36

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