All posts tagged "gadgets"

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  US college VPN credentials for sale on Russian crime forums, FBI says

  Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The FBI on Friday said that thousands of compromised credentials harvested from US college and university networks are...

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  Redefining “privacy” and “personal security” in a changing infosec world

  Redefining privacy at Ars Frontiers. Click here for transcript. (video link) At the Ars Frontiers event in Washington, DC, I had the...

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  Omnipotent BMCs from Quanta remain vulnerable to critical Pantsdown threat

  Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) In January 2019, a researcher disclosed a devastating vulnerability in one of the most powerful and sensitive devices...

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  Broadcom will pay $61 billion to become the latest company to acquire VMware

  Enlarge (credit: VMWare) Chipmaker Broadcom will be acquiring VMware for $61 billion in cash and stock, the companies announced today. Broadcom is...

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  Critical Zoom vulnerabilities fixed last week required no user interaction

  Enlarge (credit: Zoom) Google’s Project Zero vulnerability research team detailed critical vulnerabilities Zoom patched last week making that made it possible for...

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  Digital driver’s license billed as harder than plastic to forge is easily forged

  Enlarge (credit: Service NSW) In late 2019, the government of New South Wales in Australia rolled out digital driver’s licenses. The new...

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  Why it’s hard to sanction ransomware groups

  Enlarge (credit: Rob Engelaar | Getty Images) This story was originally published by ProPublica. On February 25, the day after Russia invaded...

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  Researchers find backdoor lurking in WordPress plugin used by schools

  Enlarge (credit: BeeBright / Getty Images / iStockphoto) Researchers said on Friday that they found a malicious backdoor in a WordPress plugin...

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  Twitter deal leaves Elon Musk with no easy way out

  Since the financial crisis, corporate lawyers have aspired to build the ultimate ironclad merger contract that keeps buyers with cold feet from...

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  How we learned to break down barriers to machine learning

  Dr. Sephus discusses breaking down barriers to machine learning at Ars Frontiers 2022. Click here for transcript. (video link) Welcome to the...