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Microsoft plans to lock down Windows DNS like never before. Here’s how.

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Translating human-readable domain names into numerical IP addresses has long been fraught with gaping security risks. After all, lookups are rarely end-to-end encrypted. The servers providing domain name lookups…

Counterfeit Cisco gear ended up in US military bases, used in combat operations

Enlarge / Cisco Systems headquarters in San Jose, California. (credit: Getty) A Florida resident was sentenced to 78 months for running a counterfeit scam that generated $100 million in revenue from fake networking…

These dangerous scammers don’t even bother to hide their crimes

Enlarge (credit: Kuzmik_A/Getty Images) Most scammers and cybercriminals operate in the digital shadows and don’t want you to know how they make money. But that’s not the case for the Yahoo Boys, a…

Maximum-severity GitLab flaw allowing account hijacking under active exploitation

Enlarge A maximum severity vulnerability that allows hackers to hijack GitLab accounts with no user interaction required is now under active exploitation, federal government officials warned as data showed that thousands of users…

The BASIC programming language turns 60

Enlarge / Part of the cover illustration from "The Applesoft Tutorial" BASIC manual that shipped with the Apple II computer starting in 1981. (credit: Apple, Inc.) Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964,…

Anthropic releases Claude AI chatbot iOS app

Enlarge / The Claude AI iOS app running on an iPhone. (credit: Anthropic) On Wednesday, Anthropic announced the launch of an iOS mobile app for its Claude 3 AI language models that are…

Hacker free-for-all fights for control of home and office routers everywhere

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Ars Technica) Cybercriminals and spies working for nation-states are surreptitiously coexisting inside compromised name-brand routers as they use the devices to disguise attacks motivated both by financial gain…

Mysterious “gpt2-chatbot” AI model appears suddenly, confuses experts

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Sunday, word began to spread on social media about a new mystery chatbot named "gpt2-chatbot" that appeared in the LMSYS Chatbot Arena. Some people speculate that it may…

AWS S3 storage bucket with unlucky name nearly cost developer $1,300

Enlarge / Be careful with the buckets you put out there for anybody to fill. (credit: Getty Images) If you're using Amazon Web Services and your S3 storage bucket can be reached from…

Health care giant comes clean about recent hack and paid ransom

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Change Healthcare, the health care services provider that recently experienced a ransomware attack that hamstrung the US prescription market for two weeks, was hacked through a compromised account that…