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Mandiant, the security firm Google bought for $5.4 billion, gets its X account hacked

Enlarge Google-owned security firm Mandiant spent several hours trying to regain control of its account on X (formerly known as Twitter) on Wednesday after an unknown scammer hijacked it and used it to…

Early Mickey Mouse is now in the public domain—and AI is already on the case

Enlarge / AI-generated results of a gangster Mickey Mouse, Eldritch Horror Mickey Mouse, and Basketball Mickey Mouse created by a model trained on 1928 public domain Mickey Mouse cartoons. (credit: Schroedingercat, Kevin Elliott,…

4-year campaign backdoored iPhones using possibly the most advanced exploit ever

Enlarge (credit: Tero Vesalainen) Researchers on Wednesday presented intriguing new findings surrounding an attack that over four years backdoored dozens if not thousands of iPhones, many of which belonged to employees of Moscow-based…

AlphV ransomware site is “seized” by the FBI. Then it’s “unseized.” And so on.

Enlarge / Shortly after the FBI posted a notice saying it had seized the dark-web site of AlphV, the ransomware group posted this notice claiming otherwise. The FBI spent much of Tuesday locked…

SSH protects the world’s most sensitive networks. It just got a lot weaker

Enlarge / Terrapin is coming for your data. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Sometime around the start of 1995, an unknown person planted a password sniffer on the network backbone of Finland’s…

Xfinity waited 13 days to patch critical Citrix Bleed 0-day. Now it’s paying the price

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Smith Collection/Gado ) Comcast waited 13 days to patch its network against a high-severity vulnerability, a lapse that allowed hackers to make off with password data and other…

A song of hype and fire: The 10 biggest AI stories of 2023

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Benj Edwards) "Here, There, and Everywhere" isn't just a Beatles song. It's also a phrase that recalls the spread of generative AI into the tech industry during 2023.…

How Microsoft’s cybercrime unit has evolved to combat increased threats

Microsoft's Cybercrime Center. (credit: Microsoft) Governments and the tech industry around the world have been scrambling in recent years to curb the rise of online scamming and cybercrime. Yet even with progress on…

UniFi devices broadcasted private video to other users’ accounts

Enlarge / An assortment of Ubiquiti cameras. (credit: Ubiquiti) Users of UniFi, the popular line of wireless devices from manufacturer Ubiquiti, are reporting receiving private camera feeds from, and control over, devices belonging…

How worried should we be about the “AutoSpill” credential leak in Android password managers?

Enlarge / Close up of hand holding smartphone and screen applications with unlocking mobile phones. Concept of technological safety. (credit: Getty Images) By now, you’ve probably heard about a vulnerability named AutoSpill, which…