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Russia hammered by pro-Ukrainian hackers following invasion

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) For years, Dmitriy Sergeyevich Badin sat atop the FBI’s most-wanted list. The Russian government-backed hacker has been suspected of cyberattacks on Germany’s Bundestag and the 2016 Olympics, held in…

Nvidia hid how many GPUs it was selling to cryptocurrency miners, says SEC

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Nvidia has agreed to pay $5.5 million in fines to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission to settle charges that it failed to disclose how many of its…

How Apple, Google, and Microsoft will kill passwords and phishing in one stroke

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) For more than a decade, we’ve been promised that a world without passwords is just around the corner, and yet year after year, this security nirvana proves out of…

Gear from Netgear, Linksys, and 200 others has unpatched DNS poisoning flaw

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hardware and software makers are scrambling to determine if their wares suffer from a critical vulnerability recently discovered in third-party code libraries used by hundreds of vendors, including Netgear,…

Botnet that hid for 18 months boasted some of the coolest tradecraft ever

Enlarge It’s not the kind of security discovery that happens often. A previously unknown hacker group used a novel backdoor, top-notch tradecraft, and software engineering to create an espionage botnet that was largely…

Elon Musk sold $8.5B in Tesla stock after agreeing to $44B Twitter deal

Enlarge / CEO Elon Musk at SpaceX Headquarters in Hawthorne, California, on October 10, 2019. (credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto) Elon Musk has raised $8.5 billion from selling part of his stake in…

One of the most powerful DDoSes ever targets cryptocurrency platform

Enlarge A cryptocurrency platform was recently on the receiving end of one of the biggest distributed denial-of-service attacks ever after threat actors bombarded it with 15.3 million requests, content delivery network Cloudflare said.…

Russia wages “relentless and destructive” cyberattacks to bolster Ukraine invasion

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On March 1, Russian forces invading Ukraine took out a TV tower in Kyiv after the Kremlin declared its intention to destroy “disinformation” in the neighboring country. That public…

Microsoft finds Linux desktop flaw that gives root to untrusted users

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Vulnerabilities recently discovered by Microsoft make it easy for people with a toehold on many Linux desktop systems to quickly gain root system rights— the latest elevation of privileges…

Businesses are adopting Windows 11 more quickly than past versions, says Microsoft

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Data suggests that gamers are moving to Windows 11 at a steady pace but not nearly as quickly as they warmed to Windows 10 a few years ago. For…