Oops. Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key.
One of the world’s premier security organizations has canceled the results of its annual leadership election…
HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs
The OEMs disabling codec hardware also comes as associated costs for the international video compression standard…
Google CEO: If an AI bubble pops, no one is getting out clean
Market concerns and Google’s position Alphabet’s recent market performance has been driven by investor confidence in…
Cache poisoning vulnerabilities found in 2 DNS resolving apps
“In specific circumstances, due to a weakness in the Pseudo Random Number Generator (PRNG) that is…
NSO permanently barred from targeting WhatsApp users with Pegasus spyware
A federal judge has ordered spyware maker NSO to stop using its Pegasus app to target…
ICE wants to build a 24/7 social media surveillance team
Together, these teams would operate as intelligence arms of ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations division. They…
Two UK teens charged in connection to Scattered Spider ransomware attacks
Federal prosecutors charged a UK teenager with conspiracy to commit computer fraud and other crimes in…
OpenAI and Microsoft sign preliminary deal to revise partnership terms
On Thursday, OpenAI and Microsoft announced they have signed a non-binding agreement to revise their partnership,…
Developers joke about “coding like cavemen” as AI service suffers major outage
Growing dependency on AI coding tools The speed at which news of the outage spread shows…
Microsoft open-sources Bill Gates’ 6502 BASIC from 1978
On Wednesday, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the…
Encryption made for police and military radios may be easily cracked
Two years ago, researchers in the Netherlands discovered an intentional backdoor in an encryption algorithm baked…
In search of riches, hackers plant 4G-enabled Raspberry Pi in bank network
“One of the most unusual elements of this case was the attacker’s use of physical access…
AI in Wyoming may soon use more electricity than state’s human residents
Wyoming’s data center boom Cheyenne is no stranger to data centers, having attracted facilities from Microsoft…
Pro-Ukrainian hackers take credit for attack that snarls Russian flight travel
Russia’s biggest airline cancelled dozens of flights on Monday following a failure of the state-owned company’s…
After BlackSuit is taken down, new ransomware group Chaos emerges
Talos said Chaos is likely either a rebranding of the BlackSuit ransomware or is operated by…
Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes
But unlike the Gemini incident where the AI model confabulated phantom directories, Replit’s failures took a…
Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps
Starting today, Google is implementing a change that will enable its Gemini AI engine to interact…
Record DDoS pummels site with once-unimaginable 7.3Tbps of junk traffic
Large-scale attacks designed to bring down Internet services by sending them more traffic than they can…
Israel-tied Predatory Sparrow hackers are waging cyberwar on Iran’s financial system
Elliptic also confirmed in its blog post about the attack that crypto tracing shows Nobitex does…
In landmark suit, Disney and Universal sue Midjourney for AI character theft
The legal action follows similar moves in other creative industries, with more than a dozen major…
Found in the wild: 2 Secure Boot exploits. Microsoft is patching only 1 of them.
Researchers have unearthed two publicly available exploits that completely evade protections offered by Secure Boot, the…
Ransomware kingpin “Stern” apparently IDed by German law enforcement
Stern’s eminence within Russian cybercrime has been widely documented. The cryptocurrency-tracing firm Chainalysis does not publicly…
Where hyperscale hardware goes to retire: Ars visits a very big ITAD site
Inside the laptop/desktop examination bay at SK TES’s Fredericksburg, Va. site. Credit: SK tes Inside the…
What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase.
Like many legacy government IT systems, SSA systems contain code written in COBOL, a programming language…