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Leaked voting machine BIOS passwords may implicate Q-friendly county clerk

Enlarge / Sensitive BIOS passwords leaked by QAnon figure Ron Watkins have been linked to a Colorado County office run by a clerk who promotes "Stop the Steal" messaging. (credit: JJ Gouin /…

AT&T delays 500,000 fiber-to-the-home builds due to severe fiber shortage

Enlarge / An AT&T technician working on a fiber project. (credit: AT&T) AT&T says that supply-chain shortages will delay fiber construction to about 500,000 homes that it originally planned to wire up this…

Hackers siphon $600 million in digital tokens, crypto network says

Enlarge (credit: RobertAx | Getty Images) A decentralized financial network has claimed hackers absconded with about $600 million worth of cryptocurrencies in one of the largest heists to target the growing digital asset…

New “Glowworm attack” recovers audio from devices’ power LEDs

This three-minute video outlines how Glowworm works and gives examples of optically recovered audio. Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have demonstrated a novel way to spy on electronic conversations. A new…

Apple explains how iPhones will scan photos for child-sexual-abuse images

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Oscar Wong) Shortly after reports today that Apple will start scanning iPhones for child-abuse images, the company confirmed its plan and provided details in a news release and…

Paragon is working to get its ntfs3 filesystem into the Linux kernel

Enlarge / Your hard drives and SSDs aren't any better than the filesystem you format them with. Paragon's ntfs3 driver combines decent performance with a fully featured implementation—a combination that neither Linux in-kernel…

Critical Cobalt Strike bug leaves botnet servers vulnerable to takedown

Enlarge / You did a bad bad thing. (credit: Getty Images) Governments, vigilantes, and criminal hackers have a new way to disrupt botnets running the widely used attack software Cobalt Strike, courtesy of…

SpaceX previews ruggedized Starlink dish for vehicles, ships, and aircraft

Enlarge (credit: SpaceX) SpaceX says that Starlink user terminals for moving vehicles will be ruggedized to withstand "harsh environments" with extreme levels of heat and cold. SpaceX has been seeking Federal Communications Commission…

Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery

Enlarge / The 2020 iPhone lineup. From left to right: iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12, iPhone SE, and iPhone 12 mini. (credit: Samuel Axon) Apple intends to install software…

The State Department and 3 other US agencies earn a D for cybersecurity

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Cybersecurity at eight federal agencies is so poor that four of them earned grades of D, three got Cs, and only one received a B in a report issued…