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Developer sabotages his own apps, then claims Aaron Swartz was murdered

Enlarge (credit: James Brey / iStockPhoto / Getty Images) The developer who sabotaged two of his own open source code libraries, causing disruptions for thousands of apps that used them, has a colorful…

Patch systems vulnerable to critical Log4j flaws, UK and US officials warn

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Criminals are actively exploiting the high-severity Log4Shell vulnerability on servers running VMware Horizon in an attempt to install malware that allows them to gain full control of affected systems,…

5 months on, Apple has yet to fix iOS bug that sends devices into a crash spiral

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Apple has been taking its time fixing an iOS bug that makes it easy for miscreants to completely disable an iOS device unless the victim performs a factory restore…

Coming to a laptop near you: A new type of security chip from Microsoft

Enlarge (credit: Lenovo) In November 2020, Microsoft unveiled Pluton, a security processor that the company designed to thwart some of the most sophisticated types of hack attacks. On Tuesday, AMD said it would…

Microsoft fixes harebrained Y2K22 Exchange bug that disrupted email worldwide

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Microsoft has released a fix for a harebrained Exchange Server bug that shut down on-premises mail delivery around the world just as clocks were chiming in the new year.…

Noblewoman’s tomb reveals new secrets of ancient Rome’s highly durable concrete

Enlarge / The Tomb of Caecilia Metella is a mausoleum located just outside Rome at the three mile marker of the Via Appia. (credit: ivioandronico2013/CC BY-SA 4.0) Among the many popular tourist sites…

End of the line finally coming for BlackBerry devices

Enlarge / The Blackberry Torch, the company's first touchscreen phone, is held for display during its debut in New York in 2010. (credit: Bloomberg | Getty Images) BlackBerry, the company that once dominated…

AWS suffers third outage of the month

Enlarge (credit: Chesnot | Getty Images) December has been a rough month for Amazon—at least for Amazon Web Services. The massively popular cloud computing platform suffered its third outage of the month Wednesday,…

The secret Uganda deal that has brought NSO to the brink of collapse

Enlarge / A man walks by the building entrance of Israeli cyber company NSO Group at one of its branches in the Arava Desert on November 11, 2021, in Sapir, Israel. (credit: Amir…

Google warns that NSO hacking is on par with elite nation-state spies

Enlarge / A man walks by the building entrance of Israeli cyber company NSO Group at one of its branches in the Arava Desert on November 11, 2021, in Sapir, Israel. (credit: Amir…