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Why is South Korea's Military Set To Ban IPhones Over 'Security' Concerns?
"South Korea is considering prohibiting the use of iPhones and smart wearable devices inside military buildings," reports the Defense Post, "due to increasing security concerns." But the blog App...
A Windows Vulnerability Reported by the NSA Was Exploited To Install Russian Malware
"Kremlin-backed hackers have been exploiting a critical Microsoft vulnerability for four years," Ars Technica reported this week, "in attacks that targeted a vast array of organizations with a pr...
Millions of IPs Remain Infected By USB Worm Years After Its Creators Left It For Dead
A now-abandoned USB worm that backdoors connected devices has continued to self-replicate for years since its creators lost control of it and remains active on thousands, possibly millions, of ma...
Captchas Are Getting Harder
Captchas that aim to distinguish humans from nefarious bots are demanding more brain power. WSJ: The companies and cybersecurity experts who design Captchas have been doing all they can to stay o...
Windows 11 Will Display Watermark If Your PC Does Not Support AI Requirements
An anonymous reader shares a report: With Windows 11 24H2 all geared up to have AI-intensive applications, Microsoft has added a code that will warn you if your PC does not meet the hardware requ...
Open Sourcing DOS 4
Microsoft releases one of the most popular versions of MS-DOS as open source today. stikves shares a post:Ten years ago, Microsoft released the source for MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 to the Computer Hist...
Almost Every Chinese Keyboard App Has a Security Flaw That Reveals What Users Type
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: Almost all keyboard apps used by Chinese people around the world share a security loophole that makes it possible to spy on what us...
'ArcaneDoor' Cyberspies Hacked Cisco Firewalls To Access Government Networks
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Network security appliances like firewalls are meant to keep hackers out. Instead, digital intruders are increasingly targeting them as the weak li...
Lenovo First To Implement LPCAMM2 in Laptop
Lenovo's latest ThinkPad P1 Gen 7 laptop is set to be the first to use the new LPCAMM2 memory form factor, the successor to SODIMM sticks. From a report: While Lenovo has largely focused on the A...
Framework Won't Be Just a Laptop Company Anymore
Today, Framework is the modular repairable laptop company. Tomorrow, it wants to be a consumer electronics company, period. From a report: That's one of the biggest reasons it just raised another...
Qualcomm Is Cheating On Their Snapdragon X Elite/Pro Benchmarks
An anonymous reader shares a report: Qualcomm is cheating on the Snapdragon X Plus/Elite benchmarks given to OEMs and the press. SemiAccurate doesn't use these words lightly but there is no denyi...
Change Healthcare Finally Admits It Paid Ransomware Hackers
Andy Greenberg reports via Wired: More than two months after the start of a ransomware debacle whose impact ranks among the worst in the history of cybersecurity, the medical firm Change Healthca...
Ex-Amazon Exec Claims She Was Asked To Ignore Copyright Law in Race To AI
A lawsuit is alleging Amazon was so desperate to keep up with the competition in generative AI it was willing to breach its own copyright rules. From a report: The allegation emerges from a compl...
AI Is Poisoning Reddit To Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO'
An anonymous reader shares a report: For years, people who have found Google search frustrating have been adding "Reddit" to the end of their search queries. This practice is so common that Googl...
Europol Becomes Latest Law Enforcement Group To Plead With Big Tech To Ditch E2EE
Yet another international cop shop has come out swinging against end-to-end encryption - this time it's Europol which is urging an end to implementation of the tech for fear police investigations...