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troublemaker_23 writes:
At times, it does not pay to be the brightest kid on the block. But Kaspersky Lab, which has been in forefront of A-V research for some time, would have got away even with this, had it not been for a catastrophic leak of Windows vulnerabilities crafted by the NSA via a group that has called itself the Shadow Brokers.Link to Original Source
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troublemaker_23 writes:
An Australian who has laid claim to be the founder of bitcoin has been hit with a US$10 billion lawsuit by the estate of one of his early collaborators. Craig Wright has been sued by the estate of David Kleiman, with the lawsuit alleging that soon after Kleiman's death, Wright stole between 550,000 and 1.1 million bitcoins and other intellectual property owned by W&K Info Defense Research, a Florida company which Kleiman owned.Link to Original Source
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troublemaker_23 writes:
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has told an interviewer in India that it is unlikely a technology company similar to Google, Apple or Facebook will be created in the country because Indians lack creativity. Wozniak, who is on a visit to India, said that the country's education system was based on repetitive study and did not encourage creativity.Link to Original Source
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troublemaker_23 writes:
Over the last few months, there have been numerous reports in both the tech and general media about the US having suspicions around Chinese giant telco Huawei and claiming that the company may be spying for China. There is one simple reason for this: the US' premier spy agency, the NSA, fears that if Huawei equipment is used, then it will be unable to carry out its own spying.Link to Original Source
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troublemaker_23 writes:
The Los Angeles Times website is serving a cryptocurrency mining script which appears to have been placed there by malicious attackers, according to a well-known security expert.Link to Original Source
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troublemaker_23 writes:
A look at Google Home, Apple's HomePod and the Amazon Echo Plus and how they match up against each other. The future is ahead of us, and in many ways, the future is here. Yet, before we can arrive at the utopia to come, there’s still a few glitches and bugs and simply, annoyances, that must be solved in the current range of home assistants. Even so, maybe one is right for you. Let's go through it.Link to Original Source
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troublemaker_23 writes:
From time to time, Google makes an attempt to try and convince the world at large that it takes security seriously. Its latest stunt is to announce that from July 2018 onwards it will be marking all pages that are not using secure protocols as insecure when viewed in its Chrome browser.Link to Original Source
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troublemaker_23 writes:
Google's Android mobile operating system now presents attackers with a bigger threat opportunity than even Windows PCs, in terms of shipments, usage, installed base and the number of vulnerable targets, it has been claimed. Security company Palo Alto Networks said this growing mobile threat had been foreseen as far back as 2006 before the release of the first iPhone.Link to Original Source
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troublemaker_23 writes:
If no major ransomware outbreaks have been witnessed for more than six months, then the reason is probably that most hackers who earn a mite from such exercises are now concentrating on a quieter way of making money: slipping cryptocurrency mining scripts onto users' PCs. This is the conclusion drawn by the Talos team at Cisco, a bunch of elite researchers, who have issued a detailed blog post about their conclusions.
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troublemaker_23 writes:
Intel reportedly warned its OEM partners about the Meltdown and Spectre processor flaws on 29 November, the same day that its chief executive, Brian Krzanich, sold a tranche of stock and options and netted a healthy profit. The French magazine LeMagIt said it had obtained a secret memorandum sent to Intel's OEMs under an agreement that insisted on confidentiality and non-disclosure.
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troublemaker_23 writes:
A forensics expert from the FBI has lashed out at Apple, calling the company's security team a bunch of "jerks" and "evil geniuses" for making it more difficult to circumvent the encryption on its devices. Stephen Flatley told the International Conference on Cyber Security in New York on Wednesday that one example of the way that Apple had made it harder for him and his colleagues to break into the iPhone was by recently making the password guesses slower, with a change in hash iterations from 10,000 to 10,000,000.
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troublemaker_23 writes:
Microsoft appears to be working on a Surface Phone, if a post to a Chinese forum by an engineer working for the Microsoft Asia Research Institute is any indication. The Chinese tech news website ITHome was the first to spot the post which claimed that the Surface Phone was on its way and that it would work much better with Cortana, the Microsoft digital assistant, than Android phones do.
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troublemaker_23 writes:
Disclosure of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, which affect mainly Intel CPUs, was handled "in an incredibly bad way" by both Intel and Google, the leader of the OpenBSD project Theo de Raadt claims. "Only Tier-1 companies received advance information, and that is not responsible disclosure – it is selective disclosure," De Raadt told iTWire in response to queries. "Everyone below Tier-1 has just gotten screwed."
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troublemaker_23 writes:
Linux creator Linus Torvalds has had some harsh words for Intel in the course of a discussion about patches for two bugs that were found to affect most of the company's processors. Two flaws — dubbed Meltdown and Spectre — were revealed this week in Intel processors made since 1995 and companies have been hustling to offer fixes and workarounds.
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troublemaker_23 writes:
A little more than 20 years ago, Intel faced a problem with its processors, though it was not as big an issue as compared to the speculative execution bugs that were revealed this week. The 1997 bug, which came to be known as the F00F bug, allowed a malicious person to freeze up Pentium MMX and "classic" Pentium computers. Any Intel Pentium/Pentium MMX could be remotely and anonymously caused to hang, merely by sending it the byte sequence "F0 0F C7 C8".
