Technology Lab
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Gab, a haven for pro-Trump conspiracy theories, has been hacked againEnlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) Beleaguered social networking site Gab was breached on Monday, marking the second time in as many...
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Hard-coded key vulnerability in Logix PLCs has severity score of 10 out of 10Enlarge (credit: Rockwell Automation) Hardware that is widely used to control equipment in factories and other industrial settings...
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AT&T reportedly trying to sell DirecTV after massive customer lossesEnlarge (credit: Getty Images | ljhimages ) AT&T is reportedly trying to sell DirecTV to private-equity investors just five...
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Going all-in on remote work: The technical and cultural changesEnlarge / Artist's impression of working from home, three seconds before 10,000 important documents are deleted from your laptop by tiny...
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US government built secret iPod with Apple’s help, former engineer saysAn Apple engineer who helped launch the iPod said he helped the US government build a secret version of the device that could covertly...
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SpaceX Starlink speeds revealed as beta users get downloads of 11 to 60MbpsEnlarge / A SpaceX Starlink user terminal/satellite dish. (credit: SpaceX) Beta users of SpaceX's Starlink satellite-broadband...
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Why movie theaters are in trouble after DOJ nixes 70-year-old caseEnlarge / The House of Mouse is the shadow lurking in the future of movie theaters. (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images ) If...
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More than 20GB of Intel source code and proprietary data dumped onlineEnlarge (credit: Tillie Kottman ) Intel is investigating the purported leak of more than 20 gigabytes of its proprietary data and...
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Trump administration gives TikTok 45 days to sell to Microsoft or leave US [Updated]Enlarge / TikTok's US operations may soon be part of every cool teen's favorite code conglomerate, Microsoft. (credit: SOPA Images |...
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Twitter hackers used “phone spear phishing” in mass account takeoverEnlarge (credit: Tom Raftery ) The hackers behind this month’s epic Twitter breach targeted a small number of employees through a...
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New flaw neuters Secure Boot, but there’s no reason to panic. Here’s whyEnlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images ) GRUB2, one of the world’s most-widely used programs for booting up computers, has...
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Hackers actively exploit high-severity networking vulnerabilitiesEnlarge (credit: Marco Verch Professional Photographer and Speaker ) Hackers are actively exploiting two unrelated high-severity...
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Crooks have acquired proprietary Diebold software to “jackpot” ATMsEnlarge (credit: Shannon Prickett / Flickr ) Diebold Nixdorf, which had sales of $3.3 billion from ATM sales and service last...
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There’s a reason your inbox has more malicious spam—Emotet is backEnlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson ) Emotet, the world’s most costly and destructive botnet, returned from a five-month hiatus on...
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Russia-linked hackers accused of targeting COVID-19 vaccine developersEnlarge / Test doses of another potential SARS-CoV-2 vaccine. (credit: MLADEN ANTONOV / Getty Images) Hackers backed by the...
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Amazon bans TikTok on employee phones, then calls it a mistake [Updated]Enlarge / A person using the video-sharing application TikTok on a smartphone in Faridabad in India on June 30, 2020. (credit: AFP )...
