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Hacker Lexicon: What Is a Supply Chain Attack?
From NotPetya to SolarWinds, it’s a problem that’s not going away any time soon.
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5 years, 4 months ago
Apple's M1 Chip Has a Fascinating Flaw
The covert channel bug demonstrates a fundamental fact of CPUs: even new ones have vulnerabilities.
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5 years, 4 months ago
The Bizarro Streaming Site That Hackers Built From Scratch
BravoMovies isn't real. But it puts in a remarkable amount of effort trying to trick you into believing that it is.
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5 years, 4 months ago
Blurry Satellite Images of Palestine and Israel Make Rebuilding Harder
Digital researchers and aid groups say free mapping tools like Google Earth are too imprecise.Â
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5 years, 4 months ago
Goodbye Internet Explorer—and Good Riddance
Microsoft will finally put the venerated, vulnerability-ridden browser out to pasture, but it's still got a year to cause some trouble.
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5 years, 4 months ago
How to Avoid Those Infuriating Cookie Pop-Ups
Cookie consent notices are everywhere, and opting out of tracking is a pain. It doesn’t have to be this way.
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5 years, 4 months ago
How to Avoid App Store Scams
Apple’s and Google’s approval guidelines are notoriously lax—and they won’t keep out apps that are after your money and data. Here’s how to sniff the…
5 years, 4 months ago
Ransomware's Dangerous New Trick Is Double-Encrypting Your Data
Even when you pay to get a decryption key, you may find your files are still locked up by another strain of malware.
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5 years, 4 months ago
The Colonial Pipeline Hack Is a New Extreme for Ransomware
An attack has crippled the company's operations—and cut off a large portion of the East Coast's fuel supply—in an ominous development for critical in…
5 years, 4 months ago
DarkSide Ransomware Hit Colonial Pipeline—and Created an Unholy Mess
As the White House gets involved in the response, the group behind the malware is scrambling.
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5 years, 4 months ago