IT Stories for 2018

Google is Working on a Fix For Laggy Tablet Mode on Chrome OS Devices 41
Under Current Policies, Residential Batteries Increase Emissions In Most Cases 182
Computer Virus Hits Newspapers Coast-to-Coast, Affects Printing 57
How Much Internet Traffic Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually. 130
How Facebook Keeps Messenger From Crashing On New Year's Eve 69
Vermont Will Give You $10K If You Move There and Work Remotely 187
EU Offers Big Bug Bounties On 14 Open Source Software Projects 78
FTC Warns Netflix Users About Email Phishing Scam 37
Users Report Losing Bitcoin in Clever Hack of Electrum Wallets 72
Hacker Steals Ten Years Worth of Data From San Diego School District 82
Microsoft's Emergency Internet Explorer Patch Renders Some Lenovo Laptops Unbootable 165
Hot Tub Hack Reveals Washed-up Security Protection 69
iPhone Owners Irate After iOS Update Bricks Cellular Data 154
India Wants Tech Platforms To Break Encryption And Remove Content The Government Thinks Is 'Unlawful' 108
Huawei Had a Deal To Give Washington Redskins Fans Free Wi-Fi, Until the Government Stepped In 113
NVIDIA 'GeForce NOW Recommended Routers' Program Helps Gamers Choose Networking Gear 126
Chrome OS To Block USB Access While the Screen is Locked 91
Kansas is Trying to Unload $10M in Unused Computer Equipment 117
Tim May, Father of 'Crypto Anarchy,' Is Dead At 67 60
Sneaky Mac Malware Went Undetected By AV Providers For Four Month 28
ACLU To Feds: Your 'Hacking Presents a Unique Threat To Individual Privacy' 67
Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and UK Accuse China of APT10 Hacking Spree 61
India To Intercept, Monitor, and Decrypt Citizens' Computers 108
Microsoft Issues Emergency Fix For Internet Explorer Zero Day 39
Two Android Apps Used In Combat By US Troops Contained Severe Vulnerabilities 54
FBI Shuts Down 15 DDoS-For-Hire Sites 49
China Hacked HPE, IBM and Then Attacked Clients, Report Finds 59
Facebook's WhatsApp Has an Encrypted Child Porn Problem 156
US Slams China For Corporate Cyber Espionage, Indicts Two Spies 54
Debian's Anti-Harassment Team Is Removing A Package Over Its Name 521
Microsoft Announces Project Mu, an Open-Source Release of the UEFI Core 121
US Treasury Sanctions 16 Russians For Hacking, Election Meddling 129
Hackers Swipe Card Numbers From Local Government Payment Portals 15
Microsoft Announces Windows Sandbox, a Desktop Environment For Running Applications in Isolation 116
Google Working on Blocking Back Button Hijacking in Chrome 152
Remove.bg is a Website That Removes Backgrounds from Portraits in Seconds 107
Turning Off Facebook Location Tracking Doesn't Stop It From Tracking Your Location 165
Oracle's CTO: No Way a 'Normal' Person Would Move To AWS 253
US Ballistic Missile Systems Have No Antivirus, No Data Encryption, and No 2FA, DOD Report Finds 190
Germany Refuses To Ban Huawei, Citing Lack of Real Evidence 127
Former Edge Browser Intern Alleges Google Sabotaged Microsoft's Browser 427
Taylor Swift Used Facial Recognition Tech At Concerts To Spy On Stalkers 147
Data-Wiping Malware Destroys Data At Italian and UAE Oil and Gas Companies 39
Study Suggests Too Much Collaboration Actually Hurts Productivity 49
OpenJDK Bug Report Complains Source Code 'Has Too Many Swear Words' 281
T-Mobile, Sprint Merger Will Reportedly Be Cleared By US National Security Panel 32
Regular Windows 10 Users Who Manually Look For Updates May End Up Downloading Beta Code, Microsoft Says 115
Chinese Hackers Breach US Navy Contractors 61
WordPress Plugs Bug that Led to Google Indexing Some User Passwords 32
A Corporate-issued Laptop Stolen From a Lenovo Employee in September Contained Unencrypted Payroll Data on APAC Staff 65
Iranian Phishers Bypass 2fa Protections Offered By Yahoo Mail, Gmail 59
Data-Wiping Malware Shamoon Destroys Files At Italian Oil and Gas Company; Other Energy Companies Operating in the Middle East Warned of Cyber Attacks 22
Quantum Network Joins Four People Together For Encrypted Messaging 60
In a Test, 3D Model of a Head Was Able To Fool Facial Recognition System of Several Popular Android Smartphones 123
Ships Infected With Ransomware, USB Malware, Worms 132
Chinese Spies Reportedly Behind Massive Marriott Hack 65
Border Agents Fail To Delete Personal Data of Travelers After Electronic Searches, Watchdog Says 89
Android Trojan Steals Money From PayPal Accounts Even With 2FA On 56
Why I'm Usually Unnerved When Modern SSDs Die on Us 358
Doom Turns 25: The FPS That Wowed Players, Gummed Up Servers, and Enraged Admins 214
Super Micro Says Review Found No Malicious Chips in Motherboards 95
Huawei Executive Arrest Inspires Advance Fee Scams 105
House Panel Issues Scathing Report On 'Entirely Preventable' Equifax Data Breach 75
ESET Discovers 21 New Linux Malware Families 67
Malicious Sites Abuse 11-Year-Old Firefox Bug That Mozilla Failed To Fix 91
Linux.org's DNS Got Hijacked 62
Half of All Tech Workers Surveyed Think Their Workplace Is 'Unhealthy' 117
22-Year-Old Google Engineer Dies At His Work Terminal 209
If Your Gmail Inbox Is Being Flooded With Promo Emails, You're Not Alone 49
Chinese Mobile App Companies Are a National Security Risk, Says a Top Democrat 76
Eastern European Banks Were Attacked Via Backdoors Directly Connected To Local Networks, Report Finds 43
Hackers Behind Breach at Hotel Group Marriott Left Clues Suggesting They Were Working For Chinese Government Intelligence Gathering Operation, Report Says 41
Australia Passes Anti-Encryption Laws [Update] 289
Quantum Computers Pose a Security Threat That We're Still Totally Unprepared For 193
Thieves Are Boosting the Signal From Key Fobs Inside Homes To Steal Vehicles 269
Cyber-Espionage Group Uses Chrome Extension To Infect Victims 25
Australia Set To Spy on WhatsApp Messages With Encryption Law 151
Researchers Discover SplitSpectre, a New Spectre-like CPU Attack 48
The Secret Service Wants To Test Facial Recognition Around the White House 55
Quora Data Breach Exposes 100 Million Users' Personal Info 40
Kubernetes' First Major Security Hole Discovered 90
House GOP Campaign Committee Says Its Emails Were Hacked During 2018 Campaign 163
Marriott's Breach Response Is So Bad, Security Experts Are Filling In the Gaps 78
Prison Inmates Catfished $560,000 Out of Military Service Members in Sextortion Scam, NCIS Says 165
SKY Brasil Exposes 32 Million Customer Records 19
Monarch Butterfly Populations In the West Are Down an Order of Magnitude 100
Jailed 'Iceman' Hacker Now Charged With Drone-Smuggling Scheme Orchestrated From Prison 39
Node.js Event-Stream Hack Reveals Open Source 'Developer Infrastructure' Exploit 82
Is Linux Taking Over The World? 243
Lenovo Finally Pays $7.3 M Fine Over Invasive 2014 'Superfish' Adware Pre-Installations 79
Gmail Smart Replies and the Ever-Growing Pressure to Email Like a Machine 86
Marriott Says 500 million Starwood Guest Records Stolen in Massive Data Breach 71
Google Shut Out Privacy, Security Teams From Secret China Project 138
Mass Router Hack Exposes Millions of Devices To Potent NSA Exploit 73
I've Got a Bridge To Sell You. Why AutoCAD Malware Keeps Chugging On 66
That Virus Alert on Your Computer? Scammers in India May Be Behind It 98
Justice Department Indicts Two Iranians Over SamSam Ransomware Attacks 47
Dell Says It Detected A Security Breach Earlier This Month, But Financial Data Was Not Exposed 17
CeBIT, World's Largest IT Conference, Canned 74
Microsoft Warns Of Two Apps That Installed Root Certificates Then Leaked the Private Keys 79
Uber Fined Nearly $1.2 Million By Dutch, UK Over 2016 Data Breach 30
Urban Massage Data Breach Exposed Sensitive Comments On Its Creepy Clients 38
Microsoft's Multi-Factor Authentication Service Goes Down For Second Week in a Row 101
Half of all Phishing Sites Now Have the Padlock 141
Latest Windows 10 Update Breaks Windows Media Player, Win32 Apps In General 200
Does Switching Jobs Make You a Worse Programmer? 227
New Gmail Bug Allows Sending Messages Anonymously 55
Ask Slashdot: How Can You Find a Good IT Consultant? 263
That Time The Windows Kernel Fought Gamma Rays Corrupting Its Processor Cache 166
Two Linux Kernels Revert Performance-Killing Spectre Patches 103
Rowhammer Attacks Can Now Bypass ECC Memory Protections 67
New Linux Crypto-miner Steals Your Root Password and Disables Your Antivirus 110
Ask Slashdot: What Kind of Keyboard Do You Use With Your Computer and Why? 363
Amazon Has Emailed an Unspecified Number of Customers To Inform Them That Their Names and Addresses Were Disclosed by the Website, Blames 'Technical Error' 31
Using Airport and Hotel Wi-Fi Is Much Safer Than It Used To Be 60
Microsoft Now Lets You Log Into Outlook, Skype, Xbox Live With No Password 60
Microsoft Pulls Some Non-Security Updates For Microsoft Office 2010, 2013 and 2016 That It Released Earlier This Month 58
Russia Wants DNC Hack Lawsuit Thrown Out, Citing International Conventions 267
Office 365 Users in Europe, Asia, and Americas Who Have Enabled Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Are Impacted by an Outage 72
AWS Rolls Out New Security Feature To Prevent Accidental S3 Data Leaks 32
GitLab's Secret To Success? All Its 350 Employees Work Remotely 106
Hacker Says They Compromised ProtonMail; ProtonMail Calls BS 55
BlackBerry Buys Cybersecurity Firm Cylance For $1.4 Billion 34
Lock-Screen Bypass Bug Quietly Patched In Handsets 21
MiSafes' Child-Tracking Smartwatches Are 'Easy To Hack' 29
Trump Signs Bill That Creates the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency 72
Most ATMs Can Be Hacked in Under 20 Minutes 78
A Leaky Database of SMS Text Messages Exposed Password Resets and Two-Factor Codes 37
'The Internet Needs More Friction' 155
Remote Workers Can Get a Cushy Apartment, Free Office Space, and $10K If They Move To Tulsa 190
Why Sleep Apnea Patients Rely On a Lone, DRM-Breaking CPAP Machine Hacker 154
The F-35's Greatest Vulnerability Isn't Enemy Weapons. It's Being Hacked. 137
The Internet Has a Huge C/C++ Problem and Developers Don't Want to Deal With It 663
Mozilla's 'Privacy Not Included' Gift Report Highlights Security Concerns 45
Safari Tests 'Not Secure' Warning For Unencrypted Websites 66
Many Free Mobile VPN Apps Are Based In China Or Have Chinese Ownership 67
Why is Antivirus Software Still a Thing? 189
Researchers Discover Seven New Meltdown and Spectre Attacks 98
ProtonVPN Passes 1 Million Users and Launches on iOS 32
Nasty Adobe Bug Deleted $250,000 Worth of Man's Files, Lawsuit Claims 275
Facebook Patches Vulnerability That Could Have Exposed User Data 19
Microsoft Resumes Rollout of Windows 10 Version 1809, Promises Quality Changes 139
WannaCry is Still Dominating Ransomware 43
Google Suffered a Brief Outage on Monday Which Pushed Some of Its Traffic Through Russia, China and Nigeria; Company Says It Will Do an Investigation 70
A 100,000-Router Botnet Is Feeding On a 5-Year-Old UPnP Bug In Broadcom Chips 39
The Next Version of HTTP Won't Be Using TCP 258
US Chip Cards Are Being Compromised In the Millions 106
Apple Confirms Its T2 Security Chip Blocks Some Third-Party Repairs of New Macs 179
More Than 50 Nations Launch 'Paris Call' To Fix Hate Speech and Cyberattacks; China and Russia Not Among Signatories, Trump Administration Reluctant To Sign 313
Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 Service Launches on Android and iOS 105
Xbox One To Gain Mouse and Keyboard Support Next Week 52
Credit Card Chips Have Failed to Halt Fraud (So Far) 229
Were Russian Hackers Deterred From Interfering In America's Election? 240
Disgruntled Security Researcher Publishes Major VirtualBox 0-Day Exploit 130
US Military Publicly Dumps Russian Government Malware Online 74
Researchers Defeat Perceptual Ad Blockers, Declare 'New Arms Race' 144
Hackers Stole Income, Immigration and Tax Data In Healthcare.gov Breach, Government Confirms 32
China Violated Obama-Era Cybertheft Pact, U.S. Official Says 74
As Windows Becomes a Service, Microsoft Needs To Be Transparent About Issues With That Service To Customers. In Recent Weeks, It Has Failed Miserably at That. 158
Cisco Removed Its Seventh Backdoor Account This Year, and That's a Good Thing 102
Vulnerability Could Make DJI Drones a Spy In the Sky 18
A Bug in Steam, Which Was Recently Patched, Could Have Given Users Access To Activation Key of Any Game 19
Some Windows 10 Pro Users Say Their PCs Are No Longer Activated And Are Been Prompted To Downgrade To Windows 10 Home 271
US Cyber Command Starts Uploading Foreign APT Malware To VirusTotal 23
Georgia's Secretary of State Brian Kemp Doxes Thousands of Absentee Voters 452
Police Decrypt 258,000 Messages After Breaking Pricey IronChat Crypto App 122
Blockchain-Based Elections Would Be a Disaster For Democracy 168
'Almost All' Pakistani Banks Hacked In Security Breach, Report Says 23
Oracle Says China Telecom Has Misdirected Internet Traffic, Including Out of the US, in Recent Years 58
Researchers 'Break' Microsoft's Edge With Zero-Day Remote Code Exploit 50
Voting Machine Manual Instructed Election Officials To Use Weak Passwords 197
Ask Slashdot: Do Older IT Workers Doing End-User Support Find It Gets Harder With Age? 221
Flaws in Self-Encrypting SSDs Let Attackers Bypass Disk Encryption 105
File-Sharing Software On State Election Servers Could Expose Them To Intruders 125
Old School 'Sniffing' Attacks Can Still Reveal Your Browsing History 82
Slashdot Asks: Are DevOps, Agile, and Lean IT the Same Thing? 226
Intel CPUs Impacted by New PortSmash Side-Channel Vulnerability 116
Iranians Compromised a Highly Sensitive CIA Covert Communications System in 2011 by Using Google Search: Report 154
Hackers Claim They Possess Details of 120 Million Facebook Accounts, Publish Private Messages From 81,000 of Them 37
Iran Allegedly Hit By Computer Virus More Violent Than Stuxnet 181
Bleedingbit Zero-Day Chip Flaws May Expose Majority of Enterprises To Remote Code Execution Attacks 55
New iPad Pro Has Comparable Performance To 2018 15" MacBook Pro in Benchmarks 171
Android Pie Has a Battery Life Problem 76
iOS 12.1 Extends Controversial Processor Throttling Feature To the iPhone 8, 8 Plus, and X 101
CIA Vault7 Leaker To Be Charged For Leaking More Classified Data While in Prison 94
Google Won't Let You Sign In If You Disabled JavaScript In Your Browser 172
Tiny Twitter Thumbnail Tweaked To Transport Different File Types 45
Apple Watch Owners Asked To Return Devices For Repair After Update Glitch 48
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Released 53
Apple's New T2 Security Chip Will Prevent Hackers From Eavesdropping On Your Microphone 145
Apple's Dual-SIM Tech Ruins Verizon Coverage 76
Civil Servant Watching Porn At Work Blamed For Government Malware Outbreak 180
Feds Expand Security Researchers' Ability To Hack Without Going To Jail 51
US Bans Exports To Chinese DRAM Maker Citing National Security Risk 101
Google Pixel 3 XL Bug Adds Second Notch To Side of the Screen 44
The Linux Kernel Is Now VLA-Free: A Win For Security, Less Overhead and Better For Clang 113
Windows Defender Becomes First Antivirus To Run Inside a Sandbox 110
Nobody's Cellphone Is Really That Secure, Bruce Schneier Reminds 80
High Housing Prices In Tech Cities Are Now Raising Home Prices In Other States 253
Twelve Malicious Python Libraries Found and Removed From PyPI 36
Trivial Bug In X.Org Server Gives Root Permissions On Linux, BSD Systems 114
Worried About Trump iPhone Eavesdroppers? China Recommends a Huawei 109
Cathay Pacific Data Breach Hits 9.4 Million People 20
New Study Claims Data Harvesting Among Android Apps Is 'Out of Control' 97
Thousands of Swedes Are Inserting Microchips Under Their Skin 193
New Windows Zero-Day Bug Helps Delete Any File, Exploit Available 74
Apple Just Killed The 'GrayKey' iPhone Passcode Hack 85
Google Now Requires Partner OEMs To Offer Two Years of Security Updates To Popular Phones 74
Russia Is Behind Cyberattack On Saudi Petrochemical Plant, Researchers Say 81
Yahoo To Pay $50 Million, Offer Credit Monitoring For Massive Security Breach 36
An ISP Left Corporate Passwords, Keys, and All Its Data Exposed On the Internet 53
IBM Open Sources Mac@IBM Code 91
Multiple iCloud Services Experiencing Issues 31
Amazon's Move Off Oracle Caused Prime Day Outage in One of its Biggest Warehouses, Internal Report Says 130
Google News App Bug Is Using Up Gigabytes of Background Data Without Users' Knowledge 110
AWS CEO Andy Jassy Follows Apple In Calling For Retraction of Chinese Spy Chip Story 111
Now Apps Can Track You Even After You Uninstall Them 118
Microsoft's Problem Isn't How Often it Updates Windows -- It's How It Develops It 227
Hack On 8 Adult Websites Exposes Oodles of Intimate User Data 68
MPlayer, VLC Media Player Hit By Critical Vulnerability 72
TSA Lays Out Plans To Use Facial Recognition For Domestic Flights 171
Latest Windows 10 Update Has Yet Another File-Managing Issue 177
Slashdot Asks: Should 'Crunch' Overtime Be Optional? 289
As PHP Group Patches High-Risk Bugs, 62% of Sites Still Use PHP 5 112
Equifax Web Site Designer Fined $50,000 And Confined To Home Over Insider Trading 105
HealthCare.gov Portal Suffers Data Breach Exposing 75,000 Customers 70
Zero-Day In Popular jQuery Plugin Actively Exploited For At Least Three Years 44
Buggy Software in Popular Connected Storage Drives Can Let Hackers Read Private Data 44
DHS Seized Aftermarket Apple Laptop Batteries From Independent Repair Expert 242
Justice Department Charges Russian Woman With Interference in Midterm Elections 261
In an Unprecedented Move, Apple CEO Tim Cook Calls For Bloomberg To Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story 162
Quantum Computers Will Break the Encryption that Protects the Internet 166
Google Warns Apple: Missing Bugs in Your Security Bulletins Are 'Disincentive To Patch' 43
OpenBSD 6.4 Released 121
Trivial Authentication Bypass In Libssh Leaves Servers Wide Open 83
Researcher Finds Simple Way of Backdooring Windows PCs and Nobody Notices for Ten Months 94
Seattle Startup Vets Takes on Google with Helm, a New $499 Personal Email Server 170
'Do Not Track,' the Privacy Tool Used By Millions of People, Doesn't Do Anything 228
YouTube is Down 206
Chrome 70 Arrives With Option To Disable Linked Sign-Ins, PWAs On Windows, and AV1 Decoder 53
Slack Doesn't Have End-to-End Encryption Because Your Boss Doesn't Want It 92
Apple 'Deeply Apologetic' Over Account Hacks in China 14
Medtronic Locks Down Vulnerable Pacemaker Programming Kit Due To Cybersecurity Concerns 40
'Hyperalarming' Study Shows Massive Insect Loss 336
Printer Makers Are Crippling Cheap Ink Cartridges Via Bogus 'Security Updates' 202
US Voter Records From 19 States Is Being Sold on a Hacking Forum, Threat Intelligence Firms Say 102
Microsoft To Disable TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 Support in Edge and Internet Explorer 64
Rivals ARM and Intel Make Peace To Secure Internet of Things 53
Pentagon Reveals Cyber Breach of Travel Records 36
A Future Where Everything Becomes a Computer Is As Creepy As You Feared 144

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